Buildings that inspire, appeal, comfort, anger, annoy or ....

[OldGit]

It's leaning on its own, without any help from us.  I hate it, too.
IMHO architecture has got consistently worse since the Romanesque period, with a few redeeming exceptions such as fan-vaulting in C15.

[The Magic Pudding]

The Weisman Art Museum is on the campus of my Alma mater, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. I usually just refer to it as The Crushed Aluminum Can. Some people love it, some hate it. I lean toward hating it.

I like Easter Island heads, chrome has a place.
I can hate, but not here.

[Sandra Craft]

The Weisman Art Museum is on the campus of my Alma mater, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. I usually just refer to it as The Crushed Aluminum Can. Some people love it, some hate it. I lean toward hating it.

I think I'm leaning that way too, but I'm not sure.  I'd like to see the inside as well.

Inside of Wayfarers Chapel, looking toward the altar.  Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA.




(note to Tank: I could have blamed the meds, but I'd have been lying.)

[xSilverPhinx]

The Weisman Art Museum is on the campus of my Alma mater, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. I usually just refer to it as The Crushed Aluminum Can. Some people love it, some hate it. I lean toward hating it.

I don't like it, looks like it's been wrapped in tin-foil.

[The Magic Pudding]

I don't like it, looks like it's been wrapped in tin-foil.

So?

[Crow]

The Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa, I loved the concept behind the architectural movement 'metabolism' just a pity it never kicked off and the buildings that were created weren't looked after.


Studio Posehuset by Svendborg Architects.


The cloud by MVRDV, sure it hasn't been built and it does look like 9/11 but I think its amazing


Not architecture but art utilizing architecture, Turning the Place Over by Richard Wilson.


New Kyoto Town House by ALPHAville
(exterior)

(interior)

[xSilverPhinx]

I don't like it, looks like it's been wrapped in tin-foil.

So?

So...it looks...odd.  Like the type that's meant to keep all those pesky radio waves out. Sends the wrong message.

[Crow]

Oh and almost forgot about this church, st Hilaire in Melle by Mathieu Lehanneur. The interior is amazing.


The exterior is meh.

[xSilverPhinx]

Modern art museum in Vienna:



Looks like you've walked into a realistic cartoon:



It took a while to realise what this was...



The Wonderworks, in Florida:

[Sandra Craft]

The Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa, I loved the concept behind the architectural movement 'metabolism' just a pity it never kicked off and the buildings that were created weren't looked after.

Weird.  Looks like a stack of dominos.

Oh and almost forgot about this church, st Hilaire in Melle by Mathieu Lehanneur. The interior is amazing.

That is gorgeous!  What's that little pool behind the priest?  It looks too awkward and narrow for adult baptisms.

[OldGit]

The exterior is meh.

M'dear chap, that's some quite nice Romanesque.  Somewhat reminiscent of the wonderful work at Kilpeck:



Meh begins after 1250.

[The Magic Pudding]

and in the end it all came down to potato sandwiches.

[Crow]

That is gorgeous!  What's that little pool behind the priest?  It looks too awkward and narrow for adult baptisms.

Its the baptism pool, it can be filled up more. The concept; there is a river that runs beneath the church and is inspired by digging in sand near water where eventually you will reach water if you dig deep enough. Another picture to show how deep it can go.

M'dear chap, that's some quite nice Romanesque.  Somewhat reminiscent of the wonderful work at Kilpeck:

I have never been a fan of that type of architecture, its nice but doesn't really excite me. The interior works better due to the exterior as its such an unexpected change. The door on that picture is lovely though.

[OldGit]

^ I'm a fanatic, you see. 

That Vienna museum reminds me of this house in Oxford:



It's real; it's been there for decades and has survived all campaigns to have it removed.

[Whitney]

I always thought this one was funny