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Architects & Architecture Studetns on NYTA (pg. 3)
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| DJ Eco |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
i'm an architecture student at Cornell's NYC facility on 17th st. (pre thesis)
and I work at nARCHITECTS in dumbo
http://www.narchitects.com
spent some time interning at Moed de Armas & Shannon downtown as well |
The Switch Building you guys did in NYC is really really similar to an idea (or vice-versa haha) I designed some time ago, I'll post some pics up later tonight! |
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| Geoffb3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Eco
J, that site's pretty cool... I hate how it looks outside, but what it translates to in the interior is WOWZ!
Libeskind is still my fav tho.. |
UGH :whip:
I HATE THAT ... Daniel Libeskind ... ugh ... im speechless in shame...
and the fact that you put the ROM up there... ugh
I am from toronto, i saw that monstor go up... it ruined a nice piece of classical mansonary architecture while allowing for no renovation to ever be done to it, and leaving an old decrepite 70's brutalist strucuture in the back ....
that building was a slap int he face to toronto as he did it with out any consideration ... and thats very obvious once one goes inside ... its a sad thing ..
sorry i had to rant... |
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| DJ Eco |
| No, I probably would agree if I were to see it in person... It seems like one of those things that looks so cool in pictures, but I'd probably feel the same way you do if, say, an older building in New York had been ruined with something like that... It does seem like a bit of an eyesore to the neighborhood that it's in, so in that respect I'll agree with you!! |
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| ReenTeenTeen |
I cannot say I agree. For one thing, I feel more then half of NYC has to be floored and new-ER buildings need to go up in their place of the old shoe boxes. Thus, my opinion is enough with the old and in with the new. Times are changing fast and the old buildings that are all so plain need to go since they were build in the time of exploration & limitations of the steel construction. :rolleyes:
PS. Geoffb3, are you f*cking kidding me??? I'd renovate and add on the sh*t out of that building inside and out if I was allowed. Otherwise, I don't see anything wrong with that building. Once long ago the NY Guggenheim was and still is the black sheep in that neighborhood, but what a freagin sheep. :crazy: |
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| DJ Eco |
| quote: | Originally posted by ReenTeenTeen
I cannot say I agree. For one thing, I feel more then half of NYC has to be floored and new-ER buildings need to go up in their place of the old shoe boxes. Thus, my opinion is enough with the old and in with the new. Times are changing fast and the old buildings that are all so plain need to go since they were build in the time of exploration & limitations of the steel construction. :rolleyes: |
I fully agree... However, when saying that certain things shouldn't be touched, I think things like brownstones or even some of the faux-classical stuff in the Financial District go in that category... As for pretty much anything that went up from the 20s-on, bring it down!!! Every major city in the world is far more advanced than New York City in its architecture. |
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| Geoffb3 |
Reenteenteen, man i saw the structure go up ... trust me u cant expand on that its the most inefficient structure built in toronto they knew the desiered look most of the detials needed to be done on site bc it was to complicated ... the gallaries have very little room..
im from toronto this building is 100% non site responsive ...
it is a huge eye sore ....
i do agree that new things will come, but they will also become old ... if something is good enough .. leave it alone ..d ont ing explode a crystal out of it ... there was no need for it ....
classical architecture will always have its place ( so says a RAMSA employee) ahah ... but anyways .. its a pretty miserable thing to actually call architecture ... and its very unfortunate educated people actually cant see how the faults out way the images of cool and trendy
if you guys get a chance you should read "azures" ( the magazine) article on the rom ... |
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| ReenTeenTeen |
| quote: | Originally posted by Geoffb3
classical architecture will always have its place ( so says a RAMSA employee) ahah ... but anyways .. its a pretty miserable thing to actually call architecture ... and its very unfortunate educated people actually cant see how the faults out way the images of cool and trendy
if you guys get a chance you should read "azures" ( the magazine) article on the rom ... |
you lost me at above comment. what you mean to say there? :thepirate |
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| DJ Eco |
Geoff, I agree somewhat with what you say about putting look over functionality... He kinda makes a mockery of the idea of a museum, and I too am a bit "mehh" over the fact that it kinda splits into the old structure. However, I think we can all agree that his Jewish Museum in Berlin is horrible, for all the reasons you stated about ROM and then some:
eeek! |
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| Geoffb3 |
all of his work is pretty Ekk but to compare the 2 i think the jewish museum is much better than the Rom, and the fact that it splits the old building does not bother me as much ... its how it was done and the result ....
The jewish museum is one of his more famous works that got him started ...so it was an aatempt at a well thought out design and deravation ... the site lines is some what intresting and creates an intresting space however not for any museum ..... |
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| Geoffb3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by ReenTeenTeen
you lost me at above comment. what you mean to say there? :thepirate |
i meant that classical architecture will always have its place in society
and that to call DL nonsence architecture ... ( ie to call the rom architecture) is a very sad thing ...
the fact that educated people liek most of his work is sad, because there being confused my the trendy cool images that are produced, but not the program circulation intent of a building ... what people consider architecture are ussually very different thigns as this idea is developped through out life and certain things are important to an indivual...
to DL its to be poppy and different with no thought to what would work best, preform best, amd people would enjoy ... instead he thinks these things will come from one wow, when there like look the building hangs 13 m over the road... ( the rom actualy does)
and yay now you have to pay taxes to Toronto for teh rest of that god forsaken structure ....
by the way look up how much money it took to build that ..ahah .. i hate ym goverment |
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| nefardec |
i really don't like that libeskind project (top one)
the only thing good about the jewish museum is the Garden of the Exiles, and maybe some of the void spaces inside the museum.
the general entry sequence is pretty nice too, but I agree, that project is more or less a mockery of a museum. I got the impression that they didn't have a collection that would warrant such a large space and that they just wanted Libeskind to go to town on and it and make up for a lack of actual collection.
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Eco
The Switch Building you guys did in NYC is really really similar to an idea (or vice-versa haha) I designed some time ago, I'll post some pics up later tonight! |
oh yeah? let's see. i wasn't around back during design development. |
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| psychedelic_Ed |
I'm a jobless architect. I just want a JOB!!!! Give me a job someone!
Jewish musuem in Berlin was ok. I was expecting more. Probably because of all the hype I had heard up to that point.
Job! |
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