Sad, but what place does blob architecture for the sake of blob architecture have in the current depressed economic landscape? If you could make a case for blobs that used renewable energy and minimized their impact on the environment - blobs that were truly "progressive" - I could get behind it, but now it just looks like an old, egotistical man rattling his cane about a dying ideology.
an aspect of a lot of their projects dealt w/ passive systems and advanced heating/cooling systems, as well as non-traditional construction techniques - prefab and monocoque construction.
the lords media center - aluminum facade that can be recycled when the building's use is no longer needed. the aluminum skin was both structural and watertight, so they were able to reduce the amount of material to cover it...
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Huh. Sad, really. At least we'll get to see which was the more progressive of the two . . . I imagine they'll be competing rabidly.
That does suck...
Hope it all works out for their employees.
Sad, but what place does blob architecture for the sake of blob architecture have in the current depressed economic landscape? If you could make a case for blobs that used renewable energy and minimized their impact on the environment - blobs that were truly "progressive" - I could get behind it, but now it just looks like an old, egotistical man rattling his cane about a dying ideology.
EK,
an aspect of a lot of their projects dealt w/ passive systems and advanced heating/cooling systems, as well as non-traditional construction techniques - prefab and monocoque construction.
the lords media center - aluminum facade that can be recycled when the building's use is no longer needed. the aluminum skin was both structural and watertight, so they were able to reduce the amount of material to cover it...
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