In Lausanne yesterday, the feted Japanese architects Kazuo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – aka Sanaa – became the profession's anointed artists of the floating world. Their new SF110m (£65m) building is a fluid exercise in glass and concrete.
In Lausanne yesterday, the feted Japanese architects Kazuo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – aka Sanaa – became the profession's anointed artists of the floating world. Their new SF110m (£65m) building is a fluid exercise in glass and concrete.The Independent
oh, those ceilings! how is this vented?
what's amazing about SANAA is how consistent they are in the representation and realization of their building. The actual thing ends up being uncompromisingly like the model.
"rockets them into architecture's premier league"? I would argue they have been already there. expect lot's of images next monday, when it opens to public.
I'll 2nd Paul. This project is amazing...I've been enamored with it since i first saw the models and renderings in el Croquis, and have been anxiously awaiting completion. eikongraphia published some construction photos (and render to real-thing comparisons) back in Dec. '08...
I had the same thought when I read that headline, Sasha, and I'm also going to be on the lookout for user-generated pics via flickr.
That's got to suck to clean up when you spill your coffee. Cool interior spaces though. I would love to be see it in person and experience the fluidity of it first-hand.
beautiful building . i have a BUT ! what is happeing in these intersections , r people just passing by ? there could have been design into the building sitting spaces that dont just encourage movement but interaction and social gathering
well the building looks very cool although i remain a bit skeptical and want to know more.
but i have to say for some reason the dozen or so neutrally but slightly hiply dressed and haircutted model/students trying to populate the building annoy me.
so this is basically a big box with rolling floor and ceiling planes. i'd like to see this building more populated because i'm not convinced that the spaces encourage organic socialization. i can imagine people avoiding each other or getting easily lost and then wispering the whole time because acoustically you'd hear everything someone fifty feet away was saying. the lighting at night is horrible and the interior finishes are so plain and boring it looks as if the school could barely afford a can of paint. not to mention what the school would do if it wanted to add on or renovate for some reason. it is also a campus but on a nice day i wouldn't want to hang around outside this building. it's like standing underneath a highway overpass.
It is commendable to see architects and building designers attempting to break the “box” design mentality by applying simple curvilinear forms but as in all and every previous attempts of “freeform” designs it has never succeeded as a true design force because the predictable rectilinear 2D and 3D lower dimensional consciousness of architects and their architectural profession throughout the ages of building precludes and denies the spacial, higher dimensional creative essence and prowess required to produce freeform entities embodying higher humanized spacial building elements achieving integrated relationships with all and every functioning activity, which is an absolute necessity for the now emerging higher elevated aspects of the required new consciousness of living in and with the creative and ultimate flowing forms absolutely necessary to raise and expand a confused civilization which must be taught how and why it must now begin to live in the ultimate expanded higher dimensional-spacial-relational realm of habitation for this and planets to come.....see antobian-astract.com
That's a lovely video of what looks to be a lovely building. Very controlled.
The soft diffuse light of the grey day is wonderful. The shots with snow are ethereal - I wonder how it will perform in bright sunlight?
Ar "rolling" floors aka multi-directional slopes going to be more common in the future? There is an argument that they keep your brain sharp, which might be especially useful in a library, where you tend to space out (I do, anyway).
Also, I wonder if they asked architecture students to be the ones wandering through in the video, and to all dress in greys? That would be so fun as an arch student! Also, I want that girl's cropped-sleeve cardigan.
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I think this is my new favorite building. Amazing.
See also http://www.rolexlearningcenter.ch/ great movie
oh, those ceilings! how is this vented?
what's amazing about SANAA is how consistent they are in the representation and realization of their building. The actual thing ends up being uncompromisingly like the model.
"rockets them into architecture's premier league"? I would argue they have been already there. expect lot's of images next monday, when it opens to public.
I'll 2nd Paul. This project is amazing...I've been enamored with it since i first saw the models and renderings in el Croquis, and have been anxiously awaiting completion. eikongraphia published some construction photos (and render to real-thing comparisons) back in Dec. '08...
I had the same thought when I read that headline, Sasha, and I'm also going to be on the lookout for user-generated pics via flickr.
absolutely stunning.
See also the excellent essay by Sony Devabhaktuni in AA Files.
That's got to suck to clean up when you spill your coffee. Cool interior spaces though. I would love to be see it in person and experience the fluidity of it first-hand.
beautiful building . i have a BUT ! what is happeing in these intersections , r people just passing by ? there could have been design into the building sitting spaces that dont just encourage movement but interaction and social gathering
well the building looks very cool although i remain a bit skeptical and want to know more.
but i have to say for some reason the dozen or so neutrally but slightly hiply dressed and haircutted model/students trying to populate the building annoy me.
so this is basically a big box with rolling floor and ceiling planes. i'd like to see this building more populated because i'm not convinced that the spaces encourage organic socialization. i can imagine people avoiding each other or getting easily lost and then wispering the whole time because acoustically you'd hear everything someone fifty feet away was saying. the lighting at night is horrible and the interior finishes are so plain and boring it looks as if the school could barely afford a can of paint. not to mention what the school would do if it wanted to add on or renovate for some reason. it is also a campus but on a nice day i wouldn't want to hang around outside this building. it's like standing underneath a highway overpass.
It is commendable to see architects and building designers attempting to break the “box” design mentality by applying simple curvilinear forms but as in all and every previous attempts of “freeform” designs it has never succeeded as a true design force because the predictable rectilinear 2D and 3D lower dimensional consciousness of architects and their architectural profession throughout the ages of building precludes and denies the spacial, higher dimensional creative essence and prowess required to produce freeform entities embodying higher humanized spacial building elements achieving integrated relationships with all and every functioning activity, which is an absolute necessity for the now emerging higher elevated aspects of the required new consciousness of living in and with the creative and ultimate flowing forms absolutely necessary to raise and expand a confused civilization which must be taught how and why it must now begin to live in the ultimate expanded higher dimensional-spacial-relational realm of habitation for this and planets to come.....see antobian-astract.com
That's a lovely video of what looks to be a lovely building. Very controlled.
The soft diffuse light of the grey day is wonderful. The shots with snow are ethereal - I wonder how it will perform in bright sunlight?
Ar "rolling" floors aka multi-directional slopes going to be more common in the future? There is an argument that they keep your brain sharp, which might be especially useful in a library, where you tend to space out (I do, anyway).
Also, I wonder if they asked architecture students to be the ones wandering through in the video, and to all dress in greys? That would be so fun as an arch student! Also, I want that girl's cropped-sleeve cardigan.
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