how 'bout some salient criticism guys? a lot of effort went into developing a pretty amazing system for the production of this skin - resulting in a beautifully textured/sculpted result.
brings a 21st c version of the crafted decoration we love in 19th c buildings, but which had been stripped in the 20th c - leaving bland boxes the public didn't like.
the joke is that all the time was spent in developing the surface, the skin as a superficial decoration for an essentially 'normal' building. if you look at the renderings, you may be interested at firsthand in how it actually works and looks. if, on the other hand, you have to walk by this building every day (as i do), you realize that it is nothing more than a decorative appendage to a blase construction.
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This is less what a brick wants to be, and more what a brick-encrusted precast panel wants to be.
It's good to see somebody recuperate that system. There's some heinous ish perpetrated out there with it.
This project and the panel fabrication method is a bit of a joke. Why make molds for each and every panel, when you can have a robot build it?
http://www.gramaziokohler.com
"This pattern is decorative yet functional..."
What functional about the wavy pattern?
The who project is a joke.
The Penthouse is terrible, terrace mania.
how 'bout some salient criticism guys? a lot of effort went into developing a pretty amazing system for the production of this skin - resulting in a beautifully textured/sculpted result.
brings a 21st c version of the crafted decoration we love in 19th c buildings, but which had been stripped in the 20th c - leaving bland boxes the public didn't like.
this looks like a success.
where's the joke?
the joke is that all the time was spent in developing the surface, the skin as a superficial decoration for an essentially 'normal' building. if you look at the renderings, you may be interested at firsthand in how it actually works and looks. if, on the other hand, you have to walk by this building every day (as i do), you realize that it is nothing more than a decorative appendage to a blase construction.
Ummm, yeah. That's kind of the point, right? From Corie Sharples: “We really wanted to think of this as a modernist tower with a conceptual cloak,”
Archisnobs....
i want to know how it will weather...
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