Cool Modern Architecture

[muppet]

thats Copenhagen

[staff]

Originally Posted by huggkruka

OK, please tell me what that cubistical complex is and where I can find it!

Haha, what the hell man, you live like 60 minutes from that building, and it's right by the train station in Örestad.

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by huggkruka

OK, please tell me what that cubistical complex is and where I can find it!

on the left is VM HOUSING / JDS + BIG
on the right is MOUNTAIN DWELLINGS / JDS + BIG

[amor de cosmos]

Abu Dhabi’s Spiraling Helix Hotel
by Alexandra Kain

The Helix Hotel in Abu Dhabi’s Zayed Bay doesn’t have floors like we’re used to - instead it spirals in sections of a corkscrew from top to bottom with no clear breaks, flowing from retail to residential, and hotel suites to saunas. The hollow center keeps foot traffic flowing while infusing interior spaces with coastal air and natural light, while on the outside GROW panels are fast at work harnessing solar and wind energy. Because of its unique design, every room has a slighly different view — perfect for watching over the contruction of Zaha Hadid’s Sheikh Zayed Bridge just next door.

Leeser Architects‘ design of the Helix Hotel won the invitation-only competition sponsored by Al Qudra Real Estate and QP International. In cooperation with environmental design consultants at Atelier Ten, the Helix Hotel, which nearly floats right into the Persian Gulf, will maximize use of local natural resources likes sun, wind, and ocean water while keep guests comfortable in all 208 rooms.

GROW panels made from 100% recyclable polyethylene will be installed on the exterior and will collect energy from both the sun and the wind. Interior temperatures will be managed by a cascading ocean-fed waterfall in the atrium that will help maintain interior climate and humidity levels, while a retractable glass wall will open up to cool sea breezes that constantly circulate fresh air.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/02/abu-dhabis-spiraling-helix-hotel/

[huggkruka]

Thanks people! I recognized the triangle balconies, definately seen that one before.

[mikeR]

Originally Posted by AdrianXSands

on the left is VM HOUSING / JDS + BIG
on the right is MOUNTAIN DWELLINGS / JDS + BIG

I've seen Bkarke Ingels and Julien de smedt both lecture this year. They both were really good and they are amazing using graphics in their designs. The VM house has a really cool mosaic mural of the developer and the mountain dwelling has a mt. everest graphic made out of punctured metal it is really awesome.

[Aleks]

Cool hotel!

[Nowhereman1280]

As cool as I think that triangle balcony building is, I don't understand how those balconies are practical in any way. I mean isn't it standard practice in architecture to avoid sharp corners because they waste huge amounts of space?

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280

As cool as I think that triangle balcony building is, I don't understand how those balconies are practical in any way. I mean isn't it standard practice in architecture to avoid sharp corners because they waste huge amounts of space?

my first reaction is: when is a corner of anything of primary use? where is line between a prudent and an imprudent maximization of space-efficiency? and can't a person use that corner as a standing area?

anyway...
in this building, the idea was to fit a bunch of balconies into the very dense housing block. these apt are small, and thus the building is dense.




btw, i love the strong promotion a shared area. something i think is sadly lost in our country... that funny word: community

more cool stuff about the VM:
if people are all different, then should all the apartments be alike?
this building uses 80 different apartment types. at the same time, it uses the typology of the unite d’ habitation and then reinterprets and improves it to meet the needs of contemporary life.

M scheme:


V scheme:

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[Tom Servo]

now... in chicago, or the whole US, we're so obsessed with luxury and finishes, that most people'd probably think this look 'ugly 60s' or 'tacky and unfinished looking'

this is more preferable housing type:

because what's architecture without brick or columns?
the words modesty, simplicity, and utilitarian are foreign to us. the only words we know in the context of living is: CONDO, upgrades, custom maple cabinets, granite counters, elegant maple trim, raised vanity in master bath, amenities, luxury, spaciousness, and so on...


^ this is too small and 60s i guess.

[staff]

This is horrible!


That 🞵🞵🞵🞵 is actually built in this day and age?

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by staff

This is horrible!


That 🞵🞵🞵🞵 is actually built in this day and age?

by 🞵🞵🞵🞵 you mean... beautiful, timeless, luxurious, striking, etc ... ?
in the cutting-edge city of chicago, this happens in GREAT abundance. you'd be absolutely appalled to see what passes as townhouses in our neighborhoods. can you imagine that scaled down to 4 flats?

i 🞵🞵🞵🞵-you-not, i've seen these trash-piles advertised as: LUXURY MODERN LIVING.

ahh, it's nice to relate to people on this website. sometimes i feel like my fellow archi-students and i are insane for our lack of archi-complacency. but then again this website is dedicated to objects, shapes, and skylines.

but yeah, for the most part, this city's 'architecture' is an absolutely joke -- nay, farce.
chicago doesn't understand anything without brick.
this is all NEW architecture in my neighborhood:










and this is 'modern' in chicago:



it's really sad. if we were to walk around the city (which, weren't you just here?), you'd think: really?

[Nowhereman1280]

^^^ Yeah, that stuff is pretty inexcusable. Then again, all of those are from the backward areas of town where the bros and yuppies reign supreme. You have to admit that the design in areas dominated by hipsters or other more forward looking groups is much better, not great, but acceptable.

Also, this is just how Chicago functions, it has years of gross backward stuff, then a burst of brilliance for 20 years and then pulls back again because people get wierded out by all the newness. We are about due for a swing back in favor of good design. I think K&S, David Hovey, Studio Gang and a few others have the potential to restart the long dormant design community here...

[huggkruka]

I agree that most of the above buildings are ridiculous and nostalgic, but this one i really like. I guess it's the scale, or the colour, or both combined. It just looks great on the waterfront.

[CGII]

Originally Posted by AdrianXSands

now... in chicago, or the whole US, we're so obsessed with luxury and finishes, that most people'd probably think this look 'ugly 60s' or 'tacky and unfinished looking'
...
^ this is too small and 60s i guess.

I agree entirely that 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 revivalism needs to stop. In NY the same kind of new housing stock you photographed in Chicago above takes the form of stucco and plywood Palladian pallazos with precast concrete Beaux Arts details...not to be a one-upper but the stuff you posted looks progressive compared to the kind of infill going up in the outer boroughs.

And I agree that architecture should be progressive and people should let go of traditional ideals of luxury living.

But that said, there should be a mindfulness of comfort. The spaces you posted above feel just cold; we should be innovating to provide a comfortable space for the inhabitant without having to revert to either gaudy revivalism or machinist European modernism.

[Cirrus]

🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 revivalism needs to stop

Yeah, a lot of those do 🞵🞵🞵🞵.

If only there were schools out there that taught architects how to actually properly design the sorts of buildings people continue to want. Alas, the profession is no longer interested in ornament or proportion.

Perhaps instead of insisting that everyone else in the world has bad taste, then taking their ball and going home, architects ought to figure out how to make the things that the majority seems to want in a manner that doesn't totally 🞵🞵🞵🞵. You know, work with the public instead of against it.

Just a passing thought. Maybe this generation of ivory tower architects isn't up to the challenge.

[Aleks]

Wow, those are pretty fugly...

I'm glad Seattle get's residential buildings like these....







They might not be progressive, but they're not fugly pieces of architecture.

[Nowhereman1280]

^^^ Yeah, Chicago has lots of average pieces of architecture like that being built too. We also have several very good pieces of architecture being built, its just that Adrian doesn't show you that...

[Tom Servo]

Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280

We also have several very good pieces of architecture being built, its just that Adrian doesn't show you that...

because it's too seldom and hidden amongst what's become the rule.
but okay, for the next posts it'll be showcasing recent chicago stuff...

[Tom Servo]

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