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Here is a short story about “conscious Inspiration” in the motor industry…. 

The source of pride and identify in the car industry, is each firm unique front grill.

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Most of you probably recognize the BMW’s cars front unique grill, shown in the picture below?

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Here is a picture of the Aston Martin DB5 (1963) front grill. 

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And this is ,Sean Connery, the known film actor ,next to the Aston Martin DB5 in the James Bond’s film Goldfinger, from 1964

James Bond’s movie ,Goldfinger, Made the Aston Martin DB5 famous and very much admired by James Bond’s fans and many others. 

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Now 46 years later (2010) Aston Martin Presents the model of the new Aston Martin Rapide .shown in the next image

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And this is the new design for the Ford‘s next-generation Mondeo 2013

Look at both cars front grill ….Do you see the not so “Conscious Inspiration effect”?

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 Eliinbar sketches 2012 - Conscious Inspiration

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And to make the story complete….,
Here are some more examples of cars who get their inspiration from the Aston Martin DB5 (1963) 

I call this inspiration phenomenon “Conscious inspiration Light”

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Part of the pictures were taken with my Iphone, in the Geneva motor show

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Peugeot 407-2004

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 Audi A6 Latest Evolution Sedan Car-2012

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Lexus LF-Gh concept

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Ford  Fiesta 2012

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Mini cooper 2012

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 Hyundai ix35

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Subaru B4 2013

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Citroën Metropolis Concept

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Mercedes

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Lexus concept 2012

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Eliinbar Sketches 2012 - “Conscious Inspiration light”

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 From eliinbar’s sketchbook 2011& Zaha Hadid “Plastelina Buildings”

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How about this currently popular trend?  

“Plastelina Buildings“ 

One of the leading architects of this wave  is Zaha Hadid.  

Here are some examples….

What are the sources of inspiration for this trend?  

I’ll try to find out in my next posts….

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Zaha Hadid  Architect

Nuragic and Contemporany Art Museum, Cagliari, Italy 

Published 2006 

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Zaha Hadid Architec with Patrik Schumacher

 Cultural Centre and Opera House in Dubai 

 published 2008 

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Zaha Hadid Architect

 Regium Waterfront mixed-Use project

 published 9 February 2009

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FREE Fernando Romero Enterprise

Museo Soumaya Mexico City

Completion: March 2011 after four years of development

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Graham Thompson

Peace Pentagon  NY Competition

Published January – 15 – 2011

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    Eliinbar sketches 2011  Zaha Hadid-”Plastelina Buildings”

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My New meditation corner:

Planning is an endless dialogue ….
Between Past and Present
Between place and use
Between needs and wishes

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Here is a new type of buildings we can find on the Web…. 

I think its easy to identify its origins..

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 Alsop Architects 

 Sharp Centre for Design

Toronto, Canada   Completion: 2004

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Wolfgang Tschapeller Architect

Belgrade Center for Promotion of Science  Belgrade

Competition first prize, published 2010

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eliinbar Sketches 2011- Le Corbusier & Archigram

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What do you think about my suggestion for their inspiration sources.? 

You are invited to send me other examples of buildings belonging to this group.

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You are invited to visit my relevant posts 

http://archidialog.com/2011/03/22  - The New Vertical City –” Conscious Inspiration”

http://archidialog.com/2010/04/22  - Le Corbusier–Les Maisons Domino

http://archidialog.com/2011/03/08  - Five points of architecture

http://archidialog.com/2010/07/11/  - Le Corbusier & Zaha Hadid – Les Pilotis

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The abundance of information in the Web affects us all, as I illustrate in my posts.

I Believe that designing is a process formed from three main phases:  knowledge, tools and invention.

“Knowledge”:  as many said, and wrote before – Knowledge is the foundation for all designing process. We architects and designers are obliged to be informed about everything that was designed in the past and on a daily basis….

“Tools”:  develop tools to analyze buildings and “Understand” them,  tools that will cope with the abundance of architectural information…

(I intend to demonstrate some of my ideas in future posts)

“Invention”:  with the methodology of “conscious Inspiration” , we don’t need to be intimidated to get inspired from relevant buildings.  Once we develop our tools, it will lead us to high quality and creative architecture.

Eli Inbar

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A house is a machine for living in….

 
Recently I came across a number of public buildings that Invite  the  public to climb on  them ….

 Pyramid  El Castillo in Chichen Itzan  Mexico was built between 9th and 12th centuries by the pre-Colombian Maya ,and is designed to allow the public to get on it….

Maybe   El Castillo pyramid  was the source of inspiration for some recent designed buildings….

Snohetta Architects

 Oslo Opera House

 Norway 2003-2007

Polish Pavilion

 Shanghai Expo 2010

Danish Pavilion

Shanghai Expo 2010

Barnaskoni Architect

 Perm Museum

 Perm Russia competition winners 2010 

Monaco Pavilion   _  Expo 2010

Some examples of the present     For ” Revolving \ Rotated  floors   buildings “

Arkinetia _ Spiralling Tower _ Barcelona _ Zaha Hadid

Other examples of structures with rotating floors, designed in recent years:

Mayslits Kassif Architects _ Office building _ Tel Aviv _ 2010

Xavrer De Geyter Architects _ St. Lucas Fine Art School _ Ghent _ Belgium _ 2002  

Mikou design studio  _  The Instiute For Islamic Culture _ Paris _ 2010 

Le Corbusier at the building site of La Tourette Monestery _  Lyon _France _ 1953-1957

Steven Holl Architect _ Higgins Hall School of  Architecture _  Brooklyn _ New York _USA _ 1997

Steven Holl Architect  _  A Wall in the Chapel of St. Ignatius _ Seattle_ Washington _ USA  _  1994-1997

Le Corbusier _ Mamufacture Duval _ St. Die’ _ 1946

Juan Navarro Baldeweg _ Library for the Wooworth center _ Princeton_ 1995-1997 

Hans Scharoun Architect _ Workers Collective Hostel_ 1928-1929

Alvaro Siza Architect _ Banco Borgers  _ Porto _ 1980

Hans Scharoun  and  Alvaro Siza  are   influential architects . Siza’s  bank  is one of  his  most  Inspirational   projects  ,  Sharoun really inspired Siza  ?