Concrete Buildings and Landscapes - A Photo Thread - Page 4

deja vu · #61 Posted **Jun 13, 2017, 1:54 AM**

There's definitely some common themes running through all of those sunken water feature plazas. There is something very welcoming about the way they sink gradually into the ground.

geomorph · #62 Posted **Jun 14, 2017, 2:50 AM**

Project: McKeldin Fountain
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

All photos taken by geomorph in 2008.

geomorph · #63 Posted **Jun 14, 2017, 3:06 AM**

Project: Commerce Street Transit Zone
Location: Tacoma, Washington

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #64 Posted **Jun 15, 2017, 6:16 PM**

Project: Tranquility Park
Location: Houston, Texas

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #65 Posted **Jun 27, 2017, 7:28 PM**

Project: Thanks-Giving Square
Location: Dallas, Texas

All photos taken by geomorph in 2013.

geomorph · #66 Posted **Jul 1, 2017, 9:00 PM**

Project: Otto Armleder Memorial Aquatic Fountain
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #67 Posted **Jul 3, 2017, 9:12 PM**

Project: Villaincourt Fountain
Location: San Francisco, California

All photos taken by geomorph in 2011.

geomorph · #68 Posted **Jul 6, 2017, 5:25 AM**

Project: Scottsdale Civic Center
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

All photos taken by geomorph in 2011.

geomorph · #69 Posted **Jul 14, 2017, 9:31 PM**

Project: Collins Park
Location: Miami Beach, Florida

Photo taken by geomorph in 2007.

geomorph · #70 Posted **Jul 26, 2017, 9:44 PM**

Project: Hirshhorn Museum
Location: Washington, DC

All photos taken by geomorph in 2008.

geomorph · #71 Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 4:07 AM**

Project: Arizona State University Music Building
Location: Tempe, Arizona

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

LMich · #72 Posted **Jul 28, 2017, 5:31 AM**

Some Michigan examples:

Project: Riverbank Park
Location: Flint, Michigan

Flint by Ian Freimuth, on Flickr

Flint by Ian Freimuth, on Flickr

Project: Fish Ladder Park
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan

Fish Ladder by Phil Squattrito, on Flickr

It gets fish over the 6th Street Dam:

Grand Rapids fish ladder by Brent Looyenga, on Flickr

I believe the tallest building in the state to use concrete as it's facade treatment is the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit:

GSA_McNamara_Q3_Exterior1 by gsamichigan, on Flickr

It's a real monster, which I think was the point. I still have very mixed feelings about concrete as a defining architectural characteristic of a structure. I guess it can be really impressive, but when it misses, it misses bigly.