Favourite architects and buildings

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 11:02pm

I'm a huge fan of Santiago Calatrava, and I just stumbled upon the design for the World Trade Center transportation hub -- my god! I'm overwhelmed by how beautiful it will look. Natural light pours in from every direction and down into the underground. The roof even opens up like a stadium!



I'm also looking forward to his 80 South Street residential building. We're lucky in Toronto to have his gorgeous interior for BCE Place:


Anyone have favourite architects, or love certain buildings and can post a picture?



WTC Transportation Hub

Updated On: 10/29/05 at 11:02 PM

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 11:17pm

Blue Wizard,

That proposal is quite stunning. it is both bone-like and bird-like. Both a memorial and a rebirth.

Since my older brothers are architects and engineers (and I am a set designer), we have a lot of these talks at the dinner table when we are all home. My brother is a Phillip Johnson fan.

I personally love Antonio Gaudi's work, and used to be obsessed with Frank Gehry's work, but have recently started to find him repetitive. Daniel Lebiskind's thought process is astounding, but I am just not asthetically a fan of much of his work. The same can often be said for Moshe Safdie.

My favourite building, and my brother's, is the Chrysler Building. It is perfect I think. We have a few feet tall replica in our living room back home.

Akiva

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 11:31pm

I've always liked the Portland Building with it's Portlandia statue.
Michael Graves is the architect.
I got to meet him in the 80s when he designed a costume I got to wear.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 7:26am

Theater Architects & Theaters
Old Train Stations
Old Skyscrapers ( Woolworth Building, Flatiron Building)

[RobbO]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 7:43am

the virgin megastore and the former gaiety theatre.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 11:50am

I just saw on TV that the old Loew's paradise theater in the Bronx ( NYC ) has been restored. It is one of Loews 5 Wonder theaters in the NY & NJ area. The wonder is they are all still standing. It looks great

The theaters are:

1. Loew Jersey - Jersey City NJ - Being restored but currently showing classic moves - in a classic setting

2. Loews 175 th St - NYC - Rev Ike's Church since it closed years ago as a movie theater

3. Loews Valencia - Jamaica Queens - A church since it closed as a movie theater - It is intact but sports a hideous paint job & some statues are clothed as they are naked

4. Loews Paradise - Bronx - see above

5. Loews Kings - Brooklyn - Abandonded & rapidly detriorating - A pity as it was an absolutely georgeous building

Updated On: 10/30/05 at 11:50 AM

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 12:09pm

Gehry - love him and his work is highlighted at Millenium Park in Chicago.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 12:10pm

Frank Lloyd Wright......

[Jon]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 1:50pm

Yes, Frank Lloyd Wright. And going further back, Wright's mentor Louis Sullivan.

I love that Gehry did a guest shot on The Simpsons in which he was commissioned to design Springfield's concert hall.

Nelson Muntz: "Hey, Frank Gehry - way to use asymmetrical curvilinear forms!"

[cturtle]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 5:43am

i absolutely LOVE the GETTY MUSEUM in LA. who would ever think that a bunch of white square panels would be interesting? meier's blend of contemporary and traditional materials is brilliant. my photos below do not do it justice. one must walk through the spaces he created to truly appreciate them. i want to live there!




(thank god that man has his shirt on!)


more about the getty's architecture (and i certainly hope this isn't a link to a porn site)

Updated On: 11/1/05 at 05:43 AM

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 6:31am

Frank Lloyd Wright

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 6:52am

For the philosophical changes he brought about in how we actually live in our houses, I'd say Lloyd Wright.

Aesthetically, I'd pick the Greene brothers - I just resonate with their 'eye'.

As for commercial structures, I'm very much a traditionalist, and appreciate more classic design elements than modern. Not that I can't appreciate the concepts - and even the effect - of modernist archetecture, I just prefer more established designs.

And Akiva - the Chrysler is the most stunning example of Deco Era design that I know of - and that's a wonderful thing!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 7:02am

I LOVE Frank Lloyd Wright architect...I wish I could live in one of his homes..but my favorite building in NYC is the Crysler Building and what is nice now is that I can look at it everyday from my office window.

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 10:34am

Another vote for The Chrysler, followed by The NY Life Bldg and 11 Madison Park, where I'm temping today. The elevators are gorgeous. I did a little dance routine in one last night...I'm soooo gay.

As for architects, I like Le Corbusier...plus it's fun to say.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 10:44am

BW: Should you be in NY in the near future, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is running a Calatrava exhibit. His City of Science in Spain is fascinating.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 10:47am

If you take my walking tour of Chicago you will see numerous gorgeous lobbies of great arechitects.
Walking Tour

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 10:48am

The art deco Chrysler building wins my vot for favorite.

I loved the Gaudi architecture in Barcelona (if we are including other countries).

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:05pm

Leonardo da Vinci, before he was dead
Architected Chambord chateau in France
His double spiraling staircases it is said
Were new and they make me just want to dance

[post a pic of its towers, anyone?]

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:08pm

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:15pm

sank you, sank you, DGrant, bebe

love the new icon, is it a floating dodo bird?

Any chance you could post a pic of the outside of Chambord, too as it is quite a sight to behold, and perhaps, pretty please, also Chenonceau?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:30pm

[Unknown User]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:32pm

Chenonceau.

Sorry the other is so big - but it was so striking, I didn't want to pass it up!

And that's OPUS tripping through the Dandelions . . .

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:57pm

Sank you DGrant, bebe!

Zey are glorious!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:58pm

Ah, the Loire Valley.

Glorious.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 11/3/05 at 3:31pm

O how sad...

DGrant's pics of Chambord and Chenonceau are gone, and you can't PM him anymore...