7:00 According to newer research, the nails were NOT purely decorative, but needed because the mortar needed four years to dry and the marble plates would have fallen off otherwhise.
I happened to be at that station only two weeks ago. The station is very well maintained and it looks magnificently beautiful regardless of the low ridership of trains. Actually it looks almost exactly the same as what it shows here in this short film. I do admire the structural aspect of the concourse which somwehat gives an austere elegance. I observed that local travellers, however, did not pay any attention to this station.
I'm Japanese student and I major in architecture. I like ponpidou. Everyday,I look pictures of this architecture and it makes we ensuziestic in architecture.
Sorry but to me the design looks ugly and impractical. "In the battle of tenants with architect, they are the victors"?? If there is a battle between tenants and the architect that means the architect has failed to understood and accommodate their needs.
фууу...бомжатник в центре города, это ж тупо пром зона!!! Сейчас по ходу, время бездарей, которые ничего красивого создать не могут, оно и не удивительно, а все потому что дети богатых людей, тупо обкуренные бездари и их легко проталкивают на вершину. Ппц нет слов, видимо конец света не за горами...
Too bad that the commune of Vals voted to sell this masterpiece to a dubious entrepreneur who will only pay for it if he gets the permit to build a 381 m luxury skyscraper hotel … *** And the well known "Valserwasser" bottled water plant has been sold -- guess to whom? To CocaCola!!
At 25:05 the narrator pronounces the ROTHCHILD correct. Not Roth "CHILD" but Roth"shield". I appreciate that . Thanks. No Johnnie No "AM/PM Johnnie Military Time". Time here in the Thai Kingdom time 14:30. See No AM/PM! OK!
What was modern at the time is no longer 20 years later. The sound and heat insulation have become insufficient, and these buildings are now uninhabitable. These are only the poors who live there because they can not leave.
Is it not possible to refurbish those things? All buildings require maintenance. I suppose low income people don’t have it to spare but the inception can be spared no?
The frivolity of 21st Century art and art education is so decidedly illustrated in striking contrast to the timelessness of the Ecole and the principles it espoused.
Breaking up the building literally into pieces like a puzzle and cantilevering roofs is not only making it more complicated than it needs to be but also driving the up building cost sky high. Does an 8cm gap between walls or L shaped puzzle pieces relate to its environment? Absolutely, if your on drugs.
Great work on that initial comment mrrrloc, it was really eye-opening ... or maybe consider mr Jasons advice as he seems got it all figured out for you.
apparently many of his buildings have issues with leaking, expansion of metals provoking the fall of ceramic tiles, etc. etc. he's being sued all over.
Its awesome but I think more then ever there is a group of people who can sit, study and absorb this and numerous other buildings and then a huge, mega, super group that would have no time to study or pay it an ounce of attention miss its lesson completely. This type of vid could become an example of a busy, successful person's time management worksheet or "to do" list priorities and passes. Is this for architects to see and understand or everyday kinda folk?
I think it's for both. But the everyday kinda folk could expand their minimal knowledge and way of looking at architecture, which could benefit the world, in general, really.
A brutalist dungheap. I cannot image a less inspiring place to teach architecture, or learn it. But then I suppose it's what the school deserved. They divorced architecture from its natural allies, the other fine arts, and decided it should be taught in isolation from any other form of artistic expression. I didn't hear of any connection to engineering or computer programming or history or business administration or political science or anything else of practical value for an architect either.
COLOUR CODE Colours have been used to decorate the structure, using a "code" defined by the architects: - blue for circulating air (air conditioning); - yellow for circulating electricity; - green for circulating water; - red for circulating people (escalators and lifts). The title of the quarterly program magazine is a reference to this "color code" as a symbol of the Centre Pompidou's multidisciplinary nature. ACCORDING TO THE CENTRE POMPIDOU.
I think that the influences of Niemeyer are much more present then those of Frank Lloyd. When I look at the building skunked in to the vegetation the only thing that pops up in my mind is modern Brazilian architecture. Siza is a true master. It’s amazing how he was capable of assimilating that exact language making the whole thing look natural and in place throe such a casual and free use of methodology.
