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the nice thing about london though is that while there is a powerful set of protections for listed buildings and areas, they still allow modern buildings to jump into the mix. Foster's Gherkin is about as far as you can get from st paul's and it is literally within walking distance of buckingham palace. And it looks as though Piano's glass tower is going through finally. Gotta love London.
contrast that with places like Milan or, to a lesser extent Paris, where new buildings are more or less disallowed in the main part of the city. It is disconcerting to realise that they stopped making new architecture in such places altogether and instead rely on the great works of the past. So sad that they have no confidence in the present.
But getting back to Stern, he has always been a commercial architect, a stylist for the money. No one could seriously expect world class architecture from him. so the problem with your campus lays more with the people in charge than with the architect. They got what they expected I should think. unfortunate that they aimed so low, but typical of universities everywhere, which are by nature conservative. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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Right. Wish I could see London, and the wheel, and the gherkin.
Too bad about the others.
And, right. So far, perhaps Stern's best contribution is that he encouraged Johnson to go in the direction of the ATT (Sony) tower (according to Philip).
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 3:08 am Post subject: |
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well the administration certainly is to blame for some of the things that have happened on campus...
they brought in stern b/c it was the business building... they wanted to have a big name architect to get more alumni contributions and such... it seems like a fitting pair to some extent...the business school and robert stern...
i think once the sun comes up i'll go get some IST building shots to put up... vinioli also was just chosen by PSU to do another building on campus for our new life sciences building...which will be right next to the other life sciences building that was just completed last summer....
all things aside, i feel like that i am part of a generation of students who have seen the campus grow at unprecidented rates... there is more than a dozen new buildings on campus during my 5 year stay... and 5 or 6 of those projects are on going on currently with more breaking ground in the spring... its amazing to see the variety
but i'll be sure to go get those vinioli pics and some new architecture building pics as well... which shows a great comparison of what you can get with a non 'all-star' firm that has a great sense of detailing and plenty of input from the faculty and students...
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:49 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the image, 'tort. That's Vinoly? That's what I call a "rendering"! Post that on the "model-making" thread. . .beautiful watercolor.
Note how the water-tower has been made to "disappear." A different designer might have chosen to acknowledge the reality of the site, warts and all -- or at least depict the tower as an accepted part of the architectural composition. . .? Or would that have required an entirely different, "high-tech" (Pfau-Jones?) solution? Nice-looking building, nevertheless.
Drat -- I forgot to "return" my typing, to keep
the post to a reasonable width!
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:33 am Post subject: |
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this is actually the new architecture building...
its funny you make the comment about the water tower... it was depated for a long time to try to integrate it with the design as much as possible, at one point the library actually resides around it... now the building simply curves a little to give the tower some space...
this is the vinoly IST building
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:36 am Post subject: |
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| it spans over a 4 lane road by the way |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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So, it develops its own "roadway bridge" theme -- kinda makes me want to drive up and through it! (I'm fond of cantilevering, anyway. I like it.)
Nice shots -- fresh, today? So that's a Pennsylvania dawn?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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nah i actually got lazy and didn't go out today... those just pulled off the IST website... i believe that is PA sunset... or maybe just photoshop
maybe tomorrow i'll walk over there, hard to get out of studio now that it is final production time for thesis |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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What're you doing for your thesis project? ( Don't answer, just keep working!)
Thanks for all the nice visuals. "A picture is worth a thousand (yadda, yadda. . .)"
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| glass factory, love canal-niagara falls NY |
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