Modern Architecture at its Finest; or Designs to Inspire Vancouver!

[officedweller]

That's the type of art piece that falls into disrepair like:
- the cascading raindrops around Yaletown
- the art deco toppers along Cambie
- the LED vase under Cambie Bridge
- the needle weathervane in False Creek off David Lam Park

[Klazu]

While I like the twin towers proposed for Vancouver's West End, I really hope we would see buildings like below go up in Vancouver. They don't even have to be towers, like this 20 East End Avenue in New York. Faux old or not, the building is beautiful.


nyt.com

[Migrant_Coconut]

^ Modern and heritage at the same time - nice!

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

^ Modern and heritage at the same time - nice!

Yeah, nice isn't that often referred to as "Post-Modern?"

[Migrant_Coconut]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Yeah, nice isn't that often referred to as "Post-Modern?"

Let's not put fine buildings like this in the same category as those things...

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

Yeah, nice isn't that often referred to as "Post-Modern?"

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Let's not put fine buildings like this in the same category as those things...

Oh, so all that hobbit-land stuff is "Post-Modern?" Yes, I see your point. Apart from the one in NYC by Philip Johnson, they're all grotesque to one degree or another.
... (the big planned one on Melville has me a bit nervous, too. Amateurish-looking, boxy, awkward, and black for a rain city .... I'd rather see something more classically elegant ...)

[officedweller]

Hmmm
by James Cheng for Seattle:

Next up for Westbank in Seattle: 46 stories with a Buckyball on top


Renderings by Hayes Davidson
The four-level dome would contain a garden, gym, cantilevered swimming pool, lounge and decks.
http://www.djc.com/news/re/12100953.html

[Klazu]

That looks like something out of Japan. Interesting, but no thanks.

[retro_orange]

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[SpongeG]

from a friends facebook post, a new one for Mexico City

would look good somewhere on broadway

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

from a friends facebook post, a new one for Mexico City

would look good somewhere on broadway

Yes, it as a very 'midtown' feel to it. Broadway for sure, but also, further down Howe, Hornby, Cambie, Oak, South Granville...

[retro_orange]

...it's a glass box with a drive through.

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by Klazu

While I like the twin towers proposed for Vancouver's West End, I really hope we would see buildings like below go up in Vancouver. They don't even have to be towers, like this 20 East End Avenue in New York. Faux old or not, the building is beautiful.


nyt.com

The design lends a dash of ambiance of NYC-style maturity to a city, in any city. In Vancouver, there is so little, if any of this - the overwhelming materials being glass and metal
that done 'as if in stone' like this, on a large scale, an element of the large churches on Burrard, and their established solid mellowness could be transformed into 'blgs with parallel energy & feel.

[retro_orange]

Dutch architect designs 'emoji gargoyles' to brighten up buildings


The architect wanted to capture the essence of 2017 in the building Credit: Bart van Hoek

• Cara McGoogan

24 April 2017 • 6:01pm In a sign of the times, a Dutch architect has adorned their latest building with emoji gargoyles.

The building in Amersfoort, Holland, has a range of the iconic digital symbols around its sides and was designed to memorialise contemporary society.

"In classical architecture they used to put heads of the king - or whatever - on the facades," Changiz Tehrani, the architect who made the emoji building, told the Verge. "We were thinking, what can we use as an ornament so when you look at this building in 10 or 20 years you can say, 'Hey, this is from that year'."

The answer, for Tehrani, as to what symbols capture the current age was emoji.


The building in Amersfoort has shops on the bottom floor and fla



The building is adorned with some of the most popular emoji Credit: Bart van Hoek


Tehrani, who works for Attika Architekten, created the emoji gargoyles using a template from WhatsApp, which he converted into a 3D model. The model was then used to make concrete versions of the symbols.




Changiz Tehrani with one of the emoji gargoyles Credit: Attika Architekten


Work on the building was finished in 2015, but it has only just been unveiled to the public. People in the town of Amersfoort have reacted positively, according to Tehrani, but he's not sure if everyone understands what the symbols signify.
"I don't know if older people recognise the emoji," he said. "But if you have a smartphone, you will have seen them."




The building is adorned with smiley, angry and surprised faces Credit: Bart van Hoek


Tehrani added that while the building may show its age fairly quickly, as emoji fall out of favour and make way for the next innovation in communication, it will still reflect this era.
"It's like with Facebook. Facebook used to be cool and now it's just for older people," he said. "Maybe we won't use emoji in 10 years: that's fine, it's still from our time."




Finished in 2015, the building is still current Credit: Bart van Hoek

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/20...igns-emoji-gargoyles-brighten-buildings/

This guy should design some buildings here! The weathered brick and clock are nice details too.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

from a friends facebook post, a new one for Mexico City

would look good somewhere on broadway

I was just pondering... Why do roads have to be entirely 'open air'? Wouldn't it be possible to have a building like this go across a road? How much real estate would be opened up if even 25% of the open space above roads had buildings straddling them.

[SpongeG]

how about the proposed Denver supertall obviously not downtown since oh no viewcones



https://www.curbed.com/2017/9/29/16384486/denver-skyscraper-six-fifty-17

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by Sheba

I was just pondering... Why do roads have to be entirely 'open air'? Wouldn't it be possible to have a building like this go across a road? How much real estate would be opened up if even 25% of the open space above roads had buildings straddling them.

too iffy, what if there is an accident in what would basically be a tunnel or the pollution from the exhaust etc. I get the idea but too many safety issues etc to deal with

[Vin]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

too iffy, what if there is an accident in what would basically be a tunnel or the pollution from the exhaust etc. I get the idea but too many safety issues etc to deal with

It doesn't have to be a tunnel, but just spaced with open air gaps. Still would allow a lot of structures to go up above roads or alleys.


I always thought this idea should be adopted for the Burrard Place development. Imagine if the office and condo podiums can be connected at certain spots over the alleyway, the extra space can allow restaurants and shops to operate.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Talking about iconic towers, Seoul's new tallest building, the 555-meters tall Lotte World Tower was inaugurated this week. This superskyscraper is just taller than the CN Tower!



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Got to go up this tower last week: Fabulous viewing gallery and restaurant on top. The view of this building from the airplane was also awesome when the pilots circled around the city trying to land in Gimpo airport. If we have a building like this in Vancouver, I'm sure we can all finally see the view of the mountain ranges beyond the North Shore slopes. That would be spectacular!

Alas, our antiquated viewcones policy would ensure that we never get something like this in Vancouver. However, there is hope: Hello Brentwood or Metrotown.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by Vin

It doesn't have to be a tunnel, but just spaced with open air gaps. Still would allow a lot of structures to go up above roads or alleys.


I always thought this idea should be adopted for the Burrard Place development. Imagine if the office and condo podiums can be connected at certain spots over the alleyway, the extra space can allow restaurants and shops to operate.

Yeah I had thought there would be more open air gaps than buildings overhead. With all the protruding boxes it seems like a logical next step.