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djswan
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 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: Drawing interest |
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Howdy all,
I'm interested in any historic examples of how architects draw interest...and how it was applied.
Thank you all here on this forum
Derek
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| Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a building society savings account in which I left about sixteen pence many years ago. Thanks to remaining in credit, the interest accrued means that the account now has about thirty pence (say, fifteen cents) in it.
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SDR
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| Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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I found this drawing interesting. . .
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djswan
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Cool  I'm in a good crowd. I'm thinking fundamentally. If you can't draw interest, I don't think you can do anything??? at least on a human level. What did the architects do to draw interest and made them be? is there a commonality? I believe the word interest would apply in all it's forms in this case.
Derek
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SDR
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Okay. But we're no closer yet to knowing in what form you originally meant the term. . .
. . .not that there's anything wrong with that. . . 
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djswan
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Well, when I first arrived on this forum, there was a thread regarding a blog on "How to be a famous architect". (#1) was throw a brick at someone. I found that interesting. If you're famous, people have to be interested in you.
The first example that pops to my mind is PT Barnum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum
I would assume that great architecture must draw interest or it doesn't last long. No interest and the idea is gone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Paris
Someone was interested in Notre Dame before it was built.
Along those lines. SDR but I'm willing to accept this thread going nowhere from lack of interest.
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Almost forgot the pirates....
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SDR
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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I think "cue" will do -- no need to call in the French, eh ?
"Drawing" is certainly a principal method of architectural promotion. Every newspaper-reader has been, on occasion, a startled witness to the "artist's rendering" of a proposed building.
(By the way, we are happy to see this unhappy misnomer fade from use -- implying as it does that architects themselves are above, or perhaps incapable of, the artistic rendering of their own ideas !)
SDR
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People are "attracted" to a building for 3 reasons.
1) The building itself. For example, The Leaning Tower of Pisa attracts more than 1 million tourists each year.
2) The location of the building. For example, Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water" was built overhanging a waterfall, and over 2 million have visited since it opened to the public in 1964.
3) Events that happened there. For example, 1 million people visit the Anne Frank House each year.
Hope this helps.
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SDR
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| And. . . . .thatwouldbeFallingwater. Thank you.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry about the misspelling.
But what's in a name?
Well, that could be the 4th way to draw interest.
Give your building a famous or unusual name,
like Trump Tower or Trump Plaza or Trump World Tower or Trump Taj Mahal or Trump Park Avenue or...
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