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RRR - worst 10 buildings?
RRR architecture show. top 10.
1. skinners childrens park - phooey
2. water cube, china PTW
3. mtn building, denmark, BIG
4. albury cultural centre ARM
5. Oslo Opera House, Snohetta
6. nigel peck centre JWA
7 lyons house NMBW
8 monaco house MCR
9 seaford life saving club. RS
10 china o stadium HdeM.
contextualises melbourne internationally?
JWA but no M3.
hairsalons of australia's #1.
1. skinners childrens park - phooey
2. water cube, china PTW
3. mtn building, denmark, BIG
4. albury cultural centre ARM
5. Oslo Opera House, Snohetta
6. nigel peck centre JWA
7 lyons house NMBW
8 monaco house MCR
9 seaford life saving club. RS
10 china o stadium HdeM.
contextualises melbourne internationally?
JWA but no M3.
hairsalons of australia's #1.
Comments
NMBW over MCR's Klien bottle?? i guess you could run comparisons all day but it's a stinking shit of a list.
never been a big fan of the show and went right off it after the jellyback coverage of Venice. - didn't hear the top ten, thanks for posting it
HD - what project is the hairsalon #1?
sean o'casey community centre
o'donnell tourney
sent to me by a mate - fresh minted - unpublished as yet.
circular windows are double glazed, wood framed and pivot open - the reveals are lined with tiles inside.
japs would be hard pressed to surpass it.
(contrast that with ya wood marsh)
makes JCB's Hue project look a bit lumpy.
presenter sending a message out to JWA he did not vote for M3 at AIA national.
Least its out how one vicco stood on it.
makes sense when you point out the loyalties.
1. Brisbane Girls Grammar, M3 Architecture
2. State Library Queensland, Donovan Hill
3. SANAA's new museum in soho, nyc
4. Cape Schanck House, Paul Morgan
5. Eureka Tower, Fender Katsalidis
6. THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART Kansas City, Steven Holl
7. DCM Civil Justice Centre, Manchester
8. UTAS Architecture School - Six Degrees and SBE
9. Klein Bottle House, MCR
10. Tama Art University Library, Toyo Ito
Not a bad list i reckon, apart from the Brizzie heavy top!
its a better list but how could Eureka make it to No5 and SANAA is only 3?
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Part of the Venice payout
@ sod - klein bottle different(?) from monaco house (which is not a house?)
@ info - your worked up.
still thats a good point re that dud GOMA building.
so I stuck up my #1 and I'm just a fcuken hairstylist.
got to be a better list.
I'll give you my #2.
Fremantle house WA by Pendal and Angus
but these could go anywhere in a 10.
The Ito library is already the building of the century on anyone's list comes through the salon.
those guys are schmucks putting it at 10 last year.
@HD - #2 - no haircut required - love the description in the RAIA archive - all numbers - then a tight plan 15x15. Sweet as.
What about this for a #3 - McKenzie House, Havelock North, NZ
http://www.nzia.co.nz/content.aspx?c=218&t=Local-Architecture-Awards
Makes our preoccupations with retro Qlders up here look stunningly stupid (more than usual that is)
put photo up for you.
bit of a bach by the looks.
still under construction - slowly (money).
http://www.supersudaka.cl/church-ita/#more-437
Yes you like the stuff and i would be the first to grant you that, BUT, you dismiss a design method unhindered by geometry and concerned with issues important today that Murcutt has offered you on the basis that it is out of date mainly, and yet Brunelleschi and Bramante and even Raphael have given you 500 years ago all this tiresome wanking about decorative triangles and perspective playthingo. But because you're all just so hip to the f'n groove you can not see at all that what i am saying is true and you can not let go of your precious egos to realize it. You're so utterly convinced of your own ascendancies you cant see the wax melting from your wings.
All the modern architecture that you're frothing over was done before except that it was deservedly left in the sketchbooks of baroque staircase designers. It is literally bootlaces and nothing more and your earnest discussion of it is the tongue of said boot.
I like some of what i have seen you posting and discussing, but unlike you i don't pretend to be god all f'n mighty.
Can you not see that your main reason to write is not to further the interests of those around you but, like a colored bird feather is full of genetically relevant but otherwise pointless acronyms, your intent is only to make yourself known to another like minded wanker. Why don't you just shut up here and go piss in one another's pockets somewhere else . This is just as much my forum as yours and I don't like your insular bullshit one little bit either.
As if one single architect cares a crumb what you have to say about their work. And as if your so f'n good you can demand my silence. You have one bloody big ticket on yourselves you sanctimonious mob of wannabees.
You don't have to add your encrypted two bobs worth because all that does is pinch the edges of an otherwise informative image. Which is another thing that the renaissance taught us that modern architecture seems in need of learning again. Embellishment is blurring a point.
Apologies for my anger at your apparent hypocrisies. No apologies for pointing them out.
must have had the gps turned off
Great to see an example of the next generation doing it - presumably with little $$$ - but massive ideas.
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best office building in aus this year?
Donovan Hill Brisbane.
community involvement? external mosaics!
$60,000 USD for 200m2.
Miles, you reveal yourself to be a crude evolutionist in that feathered male colorful tongued hairy chesty bloke posturing competition type of evolutionist. I bet you think that the Murcuttian architectural method should be disparaged in that unpleasant terminology to which you have descended because it's rare in its pure application and therefore not surviving that battle of the fittest going on in your mind.
I agree with you - murcutt is a triumph of plasterboard.
if we were doing the top 500 - he'd definitely slide in mid to late 400s.
your debunking of the little chilean church is sobering.
perhaps its functional in a latin american kind of way?
but you're correct - it simply satisfies a primitive and ape-like taste for the ornamental!
on the basis of your feedback I have revised its position to #1.
I'd like to nominate pauline hanson's fish and chip shop as the top building of the last 25 years in deference to you.
I don't like the Klein bottle because its front door, or is it its back door, is an ohs nightmare and its function, to be lived in, is ignored by the architect in favour of their desire to dominate the site and the occupants with ego. Both buildings could fairly be said to belong to a stylistic synthesis but your Chilean chapel is obviously designed with the site in mind and the users of the building included.
Miles. You have spent a large part of the last few months contributions abusing me repeatedly and calling for my expulsion latterly. I told you to piss off with a tongue in one cheek really but frankly, what's good for the goose is calling in a black pot and cooking it. You can have it both ways if you want but don't be so offended at being called a hypocrite. You were having a bit of fun banter you say. well and good, but you're not the only one with permission to have fun banter, or an opinion, or taste, or prejudice if you want to go there.
sheesh, sensitive AND offensive!
I had not considered oh&s standards.
your critique excludes murcutt's inclusion in a top 500 - I agree.
no handrail on the verandah of the ball eastaway house
and windowless isolation from the interior = errant wanker streak.
perceptive of you identifying affinity with r. mcbride.
this thread is a nominal top 10 buildings.
you've eliminated your sole nominee.
I promise to run a top 1000 in another life.
I'd request of the site admin an automatic transfer of your posts beyond this point to a private school labour party owning food spitting i'm respectably 1/50th aborigine come to architecture late in life dinner party.
http://www.butterpaper.com/vanilla/comments.php?DiscussionID=1314&page=1#Item_1