tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57000993792405891452024-03-13T13:03:31.930-07:00Welcome to the TrilodomeBlogging about architecture is like dancing about musicGeorge Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-51441402507000357232010-10-18T22:06:00.000-07:002010-10-18T22:16:44.019-07:00ChandigarhLe Corbusier went to town on this town.<br /><br /><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Chandigarh_Secretariat_.jpg/800px-Chandigarh_Secretariat_.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandigarh">Wikipedia.</a><br /><a href="http://www.flickriver.com/places/India/Chandigarh/">Photos.</a>George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-58416988814637953302010-08-31T21:39:00.000-07:002010-08-31T21:42:29.335-07:00Vast Ice Drawing<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l80dcmzDeT1qbsy3wo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1283402222&Signature=AjP2y1VN870Y8DaYYXTQvmMH6I0%3D"><br /><br /><br />13 square mile drawing on ice by artist Jim Denevan.<br /><br />Reposted from Pete Hoge.George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-44016795258391879972010-08-30T22:33:00.000-07:002010-08-30T22:35:07.238-07:00Maijishan Grottoes<img src="http://www.flatrock.org.nz/news/china/001_maijishan_grottoes_large.jpg"><br /><br />"The Maijishan Grottoes, Tianshui, Gansu, are a series of 194 caves cut in the side of a 145-metre-high hill in northwest China. This example of rock cut architecture contains over 7,200 Buddhist sculptures and over 1,000 square metres of murals. Work on the grottoes started in the late 4th century."George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-88748523078922270082010-08-30T21:44:00.000-07:002010-08-30T22:12:20.862-07:00St. Louis City MuseumThis place in St. Louis sounds awesome. 600,000 square feet all-ages playhouse made of repurposed miscellany. A guy from the band Silkworm describes it as "a dangerous and terrifying children's museum." They have an adult-scale ball pit full of dodge balls. There are also lofts for rent above.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp">Official site.</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Museum_(St._Louis,_Missouri)">Wikipedia.</a><br /><br /><img src="http://acrossthegreatdivide.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/city-museum.jpg?w=470"><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://blog.makezine.com/img_m578.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://blog.makezine.com/img_m579.jpg">George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-61882810407935080662010-08-30T06:53:00.001-07:002010-08-30T07:21:58.454-07:00Palace of the SovietsThe USSR's answer to the Empire State Building was partly built before it had to be disassembled for WWII materials.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Soviets">Wikipedia.</a><br /><br /><br />This design won the contest:<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/images/14.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://muar.ru/press_dossier/2006/visotki/01.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://muar.ru/press_dossier/2006/visotki/03.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />But you gotta love this design:<br /><br /><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Ginzburg_palace_of_soviets.jpg">George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-48599308547111910692010-08-16T23:24:00.000-07:002010-08-16T23:34:06.782-07:00ZahaMania: ShoesPritzker-winning architect Zaha Hadid has delved into shoe design.<br /><br /><img src="http://theshoemarket.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/zahashoesredblack.jpg?w=537&h=449"><br /><img src="http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/zaha-hadid-lacoste-footwear-6.jpg"><br /><img src="http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/zaha-hadid-lacoste-footwear-11.jpg"><br /><img src="http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/zaha-hadid-lacoste-footwear-4_copy(1).jpg"><br /><img src="http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2008/10/zha_melissa-shoes_purple.jpg"><br /><img src="http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2008/10/zha_melissa-shoes_s_sq.jpg">George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-34196353182557879232010-08-13T10:01:00.000-07:002010-08-13T18:15:01.223-07:00Philly Skyline: Then and NowBefore 1987, Philly's "gentleman's agreement" that skyscrapers should not exceed the height of city hall's statue didn't lead to very appealing results. <br /><br />Here are some 50s pics. This view from the art museum comes off nicely...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.cardcow.com/images/set198/card00213_fr.jpg"><br /><br />But these other views are pretty much showcase midrise mediocrity.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.cardcow.com/images/set198/card00219_fr.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://www.cardcow.com/images/set198/card00215_fr.jpg"><br /><br /><br />I prefer the new look, mainly because I think people put more into these designs, knowing they'd be very visible, rather than just saying "ah what the hell, no one cares anyway" (which is what Penn Center looks like, pretty much).<br /><br /><img src="http://www.phillyskyline.com/misc/080318a.jpg"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Philadelphia_skyline_from_south_street_bridge.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 680px; height: 384px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Philadelphia_skyline_from_south_street_bridge.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-88836912533262784862010-08-11T18:58:00.001-07:002010-08-11T19:00:32.180-07:00What is the architectural equivalent of a tritone?Let me know what you think.<br /><br />My favorite response thus far is: a pyramid w/ a triangle base.George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-31178071390501284932010-08-11T13:33:00.000-07:002010-08-11T18:58:08.477-07:00Meadowbrook Midcentury<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwwuldNa7l1qzcrsqo1_r1_500.jpg"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.1709meadowbrook.com/">This place just dropped in price.</a><br /><br />Warning: cheesy beat-of-the-90s soundtrack -- mute it or face the consequences.George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-56968670459076380642010-08-10T22:36:00.000-07:002010-08-10T22:39:05.103-07:00Reading PA Pagoda<img src="http://www.preservationnation.org/assets/photos-images/preservation-magazine/todays-news-items/2008/PagodaReading.jpg"><br /><br /><br />I've never been to Reading PA, though I find it interesting that it's in the shadow of a large pagoda.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.bfcollection.net/cities/usa/pa/Reading_PA_Pagoda_03web.jpg">George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-44815840896631319252010-08-09T15:52:00.000-07:002010-08-09T16:18:30.755-07:00Perky Bat TowerIn <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYix2LttoB0&feature=related">Sugarloaf Key</a>, a guy wanted to drive out the mosquitoes by attracting bats -- with a belfry-like structure, naturally.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://florida-keys-photos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/perky-bat-tower.jpg"><br /><br /><br />The bats he imported left; the skeeters didn't.<br /><br />I'd like to think that the place was for perky bats, but actually Perky was the guy's name.George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-12906810913560881012010-08-04T20:40:00.000-07:002010-08-08T22:34:30.803-07:00How to Disappear Completely, and probably kill a lot of birds<a href="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/56/almost-invisible-mirrored-tree-house-built-in-sweden.html">Mirrored tree house built in Sweden</a> <br /><br /><img src="http://www.treehugger.com/mirror-reflecting.jpg"><br /><br />Thanks to Nick Millevoi for this link.George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-21977427579588443312010-08-04T20:31:00.000-07:002010-08-08T22:34:40.320-07:00Slice Where You Live Like Pie: Connecticut in the Round<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/garden/13who.html"><br />Multi-Unit in Guilford</a><br /><br /><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/12/garden/13who650.3.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://takesunset.com/2010/06/the-round-house/">Single-Family in Wilton</a><br /><br /><img src="http://takesunset.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Round-House-Richard-Foster-1.jpg"><br /><br />Thanks to Evan Lipson for the Guilford link.George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-64783018289466442922010-08-04T11:46:00.000-07:002010-08-04T12:01:52.893-07:00The Jayne Building1850: Philly's seminal pre-steelframe protoscraper. <br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/3701902764_86d0dc949a_b.jpg"><br /><br />It was the tallest building in the US at the time.<br /><br />Built for a pharmaceutical mogul, demolished in the 1950s to make way for a colonial-themed park.<br /><br /><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=JVzYO1TyZ6AC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=jayne+building&source=bl&ots=yiaqE2I5sj&sig=AAzMcRG06yzXgzEJsdT1BVi0oRY&hl=en&ei=DLhZTIbFMZC6ceKhwfQI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=jayne%20building&f=false">Good article from a good book.</a>George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-21894958401754583122010-08-03T21:50:00.001-07:002010-08-03T21:50:55.571-07:00What's your favorite?What is your favorite building? <br />Why?<br /><br />What building do you dislike the most?<br />Why?George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-30747234649652064292010-08-03T21:35:00.000-07:002010-08-03T21:36:37.482-07:00"City of Neighborhoods"I've heard Philly called a "city of neighborhoods".<br /><br />What city isn't?George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-9746671679467917342010-08-03T07:31:00.000-07:002010-08-03T07:55:14.424-07:00What do you with a giant hole in Chicago?So the Chicago Spire doesn't look like it's going to spire any time soon.<br />But Chicago does have an extremely deep, round hole to show for it.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.tropolism.com/Chicago%20Spire.jpg"><br /><br />So... what do you do with that? <br />Other than fill it with punch?<br /><br /><img src="http://www.bustler.net/images/uploads/secondsun1.jpg"><br /><br />More than 150 proposals were submitted to the <a href="http://www.chicagoarchitecturalclub.org/competitions/competitions.aspx">Mine the Gap</a> competition,<br /><a href="http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/cacs_mine_the_gap_competition_winners_announced/">Here are the proposals that won.</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.bustler.net/images/gallery/060910_104511_medium.jpg"><br /><br /><br />"We love the hole." Says the winner of the contest, Alex Lehnerer. "I think we would like it have the hole there... forever".<br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="video" width="530" height="437.5" data="http://www.myfoxchicago.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=1631"><param value="http://www.myfoxchicago.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=1631" name="movie"/><param value="&skin=MP1ExternalAll-MFL.swf&embed=true&adSrc=http%3A%2F%2Fad%2Edoubleclick%2Enet%2Fadx%2Ftsg%2Ewfld%2Fhome%3Bdcmt%3Dtext%2Fxml%3Bpos%3D%3Btile%3D2%3Bfname%3DWFLD%5FHomepage%5Findex%3Bloc%3Dembed%3Bsz%3D320x240%3Bord%3D1259777313098311%2E5%3Frand%3D0%2E452559981938936&flv=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxchicago%2Ecom%2Ffeeds%2FoutboundFeed%3FobfType%3DVIDEO%5FPLAYER%5FSMIL%5FFEED%26componentId%3D132375923&img=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia2%2Emyfoxchicago%2Ecom%2F%2Fphoto%2F2010%2F05%2F15%2Fspire%2Dcontest%2D20100515%5Ftmb0000%5F20100515211635%5F640%5F480%2EJPG&story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyfoxchicago%2Ecom%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Fmetro%2Fspire%2Dhole%2D20100515" name="FlashVars"/><param value="all" name="allowNetworking"/><param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"/></object>George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-20294740831903711382010-08-01T12:32:00.001-07:002010-08-01T12:40:41.690-07:00Cute-ism: Elephant and Robot in Bangkok<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Elephant_tower.jpg/800px-Elephant_tower.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://static.asiawebdirect.com/m/bangkok/portals/bangkok-com/homepage/architecture/allParagraphs/018/image/600-robot.jpg">George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-35658911547149503382010-08-01T07:41:00.000-07:002010-08-01T12:20:16.826-07:00House Incorporates Ruins: Dog of an Architect, Structure of a Leonberger<a href="http://www.machtarchitects.com/pdf/A_Dream_and_a_Crumbling_Barn.pdf">I met the guy who designed this.</a> <br /><br />It incorporates ruins. <br />I like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6vmdeuAmc4&feature=related">Ruins</a>. <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Z3gtAGS5A&feature=related">Ruins in Chicago.</a><br /><br />He had an awesome dog, a Leonberger.<br /><br /><img src="http://hugedogfan.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/bigdog16.jpg">George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-39115985277656237322010-07-30T20:48:00.000-07:002010-07-30T21:00:27.541-07:00Archigram's Walking City<a href="http://www.archigram.net/projects_pages/walking_city.html">Archigram's Walking City.</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.archigram.net/projects_pics/walkingcity/walking_city_1.jpg"><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_city">Wikipedia discusses real-life equivalents.</a> <br /><br /><img src="http://www.archigram.net/projects_pics/walkingcity/walking_city_4.jpg"><br /><br />Through that entry I found an explanation of the phrase <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_on_Wheels">Hell on Wheels</a>.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.archigram.net/projects_pics/walkingcity/walking_city_2.jpg">George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-29145311419988276822010-07-30T02:49:00.000-07:002010-07-30T10:26:30.302-07:00Saucers: Futuro<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Futuro%2C_Aspholmen.jpg/800px-Futuro%2C_Aspholmen.jpg" align="center"><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futuro">Wikipedia entry.</a><br /><br /><img src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Futuro_61.jpg" align="center"><br /><br />Great pics <a href="http://weburbanist.com/2010/01/10/the-futuro-house-space-age-architecture-comes-home/">here.</a><br /><br /><img src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Futuro_EP1.jpg" align="center"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.eichlernetwork.com/fnc_futuro.html">Here's an account of a restoration.</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.eichlernetwork.com/images/front/futuro_2.jpg" align="center"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.futurohouse.com/northam.html">Someone's been keeping a list of places to spot them.</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.eichlernetwork.com/images/front/futuro_7.jpg" align="center"><br /><br />There's one near Philly in Willingboro NJ:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.stuofdoom.com/futuro.jpg" align="center">George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-6686680225794100932010-07-29T20:16:00.000-07:002010-07-29T21:03:27.379-07:00Seagram Building<a href="http://www.skyscraper.org/Pics/fav_seagram.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 292px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 450px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.skyscraper.org/Pics/fav_seagram.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagram_building">Wikipedia:</a><br /><br /><em>This structure, and the International Style in which it was built, had enormous influences on American architecture. One of the style's characteristic traits was to express or articulate the structure of buildings externally.[1] It was a style that argued that the functional utility of the building’s structural elements when made visible, could supplant a formal decorative articulation; and more honestly converse with the public, than any system of applied ornamentation. A building's structural elements should be visible, Mies thought. The Seagram Building, like virtually all large buildings of the time, was built of a steel frame, from which non-structural glass walls were hung. Mies would have preferred the steel frame to be visible to all; however, American building codes required that all structural steel be covered in a fireproof material, usually concrete, because improperly protected steel columns or beams may soften and fail in confined fires.[2] Concrete hid the structure of the building — something Mies wanted to avoid at all costs — so Mies used non-structural bronze-toned I-beams to suggest structure instead. These are visible from the outside of the building, and run vertically, like mullions, surrounding the large glass windows. Now, observers look up and see a "fake and tinted-bronze" structure covering a real steel structure. This method of construction using an interior reinforced concrete shell to support a larger non-structural edifice has since become commonplace. As designed, the building used 1,500 tons of bronze in its construction. </em><br /><br /><br />So, in other words, Mies Van Der Rohe was attempting this:<br /><br /><a href="http://theseventhvoyage.com/images/Jason%20and%20the%20Argonauts/skeletons3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 852px; height: 480px;" src="http://theseventhvoyage.com/images/Jason%20and%20the%20Argonauts/skeletons3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />But at a higher cost, he ended up with this:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.founditemclothing.com/halloween/spinal-tap-cap-1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.founditemclothing.com/halloween/spinal-tap-cap-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Now give Philly that Calder out front.<br /><br /><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/RoyLichtensteinBrushSculpture.JPG/800px-RoyLichtensteinBrushSculpture.JPG"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 800px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 600px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/RoyLichtensteinBrushSculpture.JPG/800px-RoyLichtensteinBrushSculpture.JPG" border="0" /></a>George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-41768144895677315262010-07-29T19:11:00.000-07:002010-07-29T19:32:28.546-07:00Chestnut Hill Architectural Tour<a href="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_197.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1000px; height: 750px;" src="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_197.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Part 1: <br /><a href="http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=169991"><br />North Chestnut Hill & Environs</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_470.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1000px; height: 750px;" src="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_470.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Part 2: <br /><a href="http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170560"><br />Wissahickon Height/St. Martins & Environs</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_487.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1000px; height: 750px;" src="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_487.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Part 3: <br /><a href="http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170804"><br />Woodward Developments & Environs</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_186.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1000px; height: 750px;" src="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_186.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Part 4: <br /><a href="http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=171036"><br />Ancient & Modern Chestnut Hill</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1000px; height: 750px;" src="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_003.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Part 5: <br /><a href="http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=171267"><br />The French Village & Environs (upper West Mount Airy)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_064.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1000px; height: 750px;" src="http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/Swinefeld/Chestnut%20Hill/CHill_064.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-68407270490882135972010-07-29T11:06:00.000-07:002010-07-29T19:11:02.915-07:00Arbor House<a href="http://jladesign.com/image_render_projphotos.php?photoid=33&photosize=570"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 568px;" src="http://jladesign.com/image_render_projphotos.php?photoid=33&photosize=570" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Arbor House, a 1971 modern masterpiece inspired by Japanese tea houses, Quaker meeting houses, and Alvar Aalto, is <a href="http://www.trulia.com/property/1089278798-5-Latham-Park-Elkins-Park-PA-19027">for sale.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jladesign.com/image_render_projphotos.php?photoid=134&photosize=590"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 590px; height: 401px;" src="http://jladesign.com/image_render_projphotos.php?photoid=134&photosize=590" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Floor plan available <a href="http://jladesign.com/section_detail.php?section=project_arbor&photosize=m">here.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jladesign.com/image_render_projphotos.php?photoid=26&photosize=570"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 457px; height: 580px;" src="http://jladesign.com/image_render_projphotos.php?photoid=26&photosize=570" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />It is built on part of <span style="font-weight:bold;">Lucretia Mott</span>'s family estate. <br />The whole area is full of history regarding early integration.<br />More on that <a href="http://www.historic-lamott-pa.com/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.cheltenhamtownship.org/lamott/lamott3.htm">here</a>.George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700099379240589145.post-51315889134851717022010-07-24T17:39:00.000-07:002010-07-30T08:31:11.551-07:00Boston City Hall and Ted Landsmark<a href="http://www.travelindia-guide.com/news_updates/world/images/ugly-buildings/boston-city-hall.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 621px; height: 390px;" src="http://www.travelindia-guide.com/news_updates/world/images/ugly-buildings/boston-city-hall.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Recently voted the ugliest building in the world on VirtualTourist.com.<br /><br />Is it really though?<br /><br />I think it was prescient... in that it looks like a digital graphic glitch that was probably impossible at the time of its design. Not a bad thing to look like IMO.<br /><br /><br />From <a href="http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Boston_City_Hall.html">Great Buildings:</a><br /><br /><em>"The massing of the Boston City Hall extends a time-honored tripartite arrangement of base, body and attic, evoking rootedness to the earth and pyramidal ascent toward the sky. But the City Hall's three-storied attic is the largest mass, while the body is the most perforated. Stoic and ordered in traditional buildings, the body here is exuberant and agitated, more expressive of unique interior domains than of systemic organization. By contrast, the more typically articulated attic is highly repetitive and ordered. From some vantage points, the attic seems not only the largest of parts, but also the heaviest, poised to crush the lesser mass of the body that supports it. From other vantage points, it appears mysteriously weightless, a horizontal monolith hovering above the cornices of nineteenth-century Boston."? </em><br /><br />From <a href="http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Boston_City_Hall.html">the creators' words:</a><br /><br /><em>"We distrust and have reacted against an architecture that is absolute, uninvolved and abstract. We have moved towards an architecture that is specific and concrete, involving itself with the social and geographic context, the program, and methods of construction, in order to produce a building that exists strongly and irrevocably, rather than an uncommitted abstract structure that could be any place and, therefore, like modern man— without identity or presence</em>."<br /><br /><br />From <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/boston-city-hall-boston">Yelp reviews:</a><br /><br /><em> "This place is so ugly. It's like 10 different left-handed dyslexic architects separately designed buildings then a strong breeze mixed up their papers and drawings and we were left with this. I am left-handed so no offense to left-handers. We are generally an awesome people."</em><br /><br /><br />Disturbingly, it was the site of this crime in 1976:<br /><br /><a href="http://stevereads.com/img/landsmark_american_flag_attack.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 400px;" src="http://stevereads.com/img/landsmark_american_flag_attack.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The attacker was protesting the then-new busing program. <br />The man being attacked is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Landsmark">Ted Landsmark</a>, an architectural lawyer who was on his way to a case. <br />He now is the president of the Boston Architectural College (among other things), and incidentally, has recently written <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/01/31/its_time_to_end_busing_in_boston/">an article calling for an end to the Boston busing program.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.archvoices.net/images/ted.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 138px;" src="http://www.archvoices.net/images/ted.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0803/the-photograph-that-shocked-america-and-the-victim-who-stepped-outside-the-frame.html">Long article about Ted Landsmark and the city hall attack</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://main.wgbh.org/ton/programs/A187_01.html">Ted Landsmark speaks to the press after the attack, 1976</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.archvoices.org/pg.cfm?nid=home&IssueID=332">Ted Landsmark on the lack of diversity in architecture, 2004</a>George Koreinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00009475617840139328noreply@blogger.com1