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Steven Holl ,Louis Kahn and Herzog de Meuron. You too , I found “In My Backyard”?

Posted in public buildings, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2018 by eliinbar

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Eliinbar Sketches 2018 – Steven Holl ,Louis Kahn and Herzog de Meuron

“In My Backyard“

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This is my last post from “My Backyard“

A series of posts, In which I present for your review, buildings that I found “in my backyard” and photographed them for you.

All buildings are within 60 km from home

The choice to photograph these buildings was not random

They remind me of forgotten posts

For you to judge

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This is Steven Holl‘s – Simons Hall , from 1992

Notice to the clear characteristics of the building envelope ,repetitive square windows without a clear reference to internal functions

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A different angle to the Steven Holl’s  Simons Hall , from 1992

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And this is Steven Holl’s Sliced Porosity Block project In  Chengdu, Sichuan ,China

2007-2012

Notice to the clear characteristics of the building envelope,

repetitive square windows without a clear reference to internal functions

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Six years later

I photographed this building in “In my backyard“ 04012016,200147 For you to judge

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You are welcome to visit previous and  relevant posts of mine:

https://archidialog.com/2009/11/01/buildings-9/

https://archidialog.com/2013/05/31/inspiration-from-existing-buildings-conscious-inspiration-if-youre-gonna-do-it-do-it-right/

https://archidialog.com/2010/06/01/expo-2010-republic-of-korea-pavilion-multi-inspirations-building-2/

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BIRD NEST typology

This is the National Stadium –designed by Hezog De Meuron Architects

 the “bird nest” Beijing   2001-2008

Notice the dominant BIRD NEST typology

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Ten years later

I photographed this building in “my backyard“

Bird Nest Design

For you to judge

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And finally, a sketch by Louis Kahn from the 1960s 

I found in Louis Kahn’s archives:

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A sketch of the

Baltimore Inner Harbor , designed by Louis Kahn in

1969-1973

Notice to the clear characteristics of the building envelope,

repetitive square windows combined with diagonal beams

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This is once more ,Steven Holl’s  Sliced Porosity Block project In  Chengdu, Sichuan ,China  2007-2012     

From a different angle

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OMA and Frank Gehry are implementing the strategy of “Pile of Boxes” On a regular basis . Today I found a new “Pile of rotated boxes” , “in my backyard”

Posted in public buildings, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , on August 21, 2018 by eliinbar

Eliinbar Sketches Pile of Boxes 2018 OMA ,GEHRY

Eliinbar Sketches 2018 “Pile of Boxes”

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This post is number five

In a series of posts, I call “In my backyard“

In which I present for your review, buildings that I found “in my backyard” and photographed them for you.

All buildings are within 60 km from home

The choice to photograph these buildings was not random

They remind me of forgotten posts

For you to judge

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In 2012 I published a number of posts that documented common planning strategies Which characterized Frank Gary‘s work

One of the most prominent strategies was the “Pile of boxes”

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You are invited to visit my post from 2012, which documents  Frank Gary‘s strategy of the

“Pile of boxes”

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From  Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 –Frank Gehry’s  “pile of boxes” strategy

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Frank Gehry implements the strategy of the “pile of boxes ” in many of his projects

One of the most significant projects that Frank Gehry implements this strategy

Is a joint project with Mirvish.

 a mixed-use project

Three, “sculptural” residential towers

in Toronto

Published in ARCHDAILY.COM  Oct  2012

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Notice to the unique morphology that characterizes the strategy of the “Pile of boxes”

To emphasize the idea of a stack of cubes, Frank Gehry rotated the top cube, in both towers.

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Six years later

I photographed this building in “my backyard“

Notice the unique morphology, that characterizes Frank Gehry‘s strategy, “Pile of boxes “

A stack of cubes, placed one on top of each other, and the top cube is rotated.

Pile of rotaded boxes in my backyard

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It turns out that OMA adopted the

Strategy  of thr “Pile of boxes“

Here is an example from 2013

The Interlace Apartments

Designed by OMA, Ole Scheeren

Singapore

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You are invited to visit my post from 2012, and learn more how OMA and Herzog de Meuron are dealing with the morphological aspect of the “pile of boxes” strategy

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from Eliinbar’s Sketch book 2012 – A-lab Architects inspiration sources

 

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Examples of

buildings around the world

Implementing the strategy of

“Pile of boxes”

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There’s nothing new under the sun, and it turns out that it’s in my backyard too. And architect E’mile Aillaud continues to star and surprise.

Posted in public buildings, Uncategorized with tags , , , on August 8, 2018 by eliinbar

Three Towers for La defense- Emile Aillaud Architect-1978

Three Towers  for La defense – France- Emile Aillaud’s sketch-1978

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It turns out that there is nothing new “in my backyard”, architects are inspired by existing buildings (or something similar to inspiration) for decades, here are some examples,

for you to judge

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You are already familiar to French architect Emile  Aillaud , from my previous post.

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In 1978 he prepared a sketch for three towers (a round tower, square tower and triangular tower). The towers were to be built at La Defense near Paris.

But they were never built

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Three Towers  for La defense – near Paris – a sketch by Emile Aillaud Architect-1978

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So what the hell are the three towers doing “in my backyard”?

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The following picture evokes sad memories

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World Trade Center – New York-  Minoru Yamasaki Architect –  1972

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And this is a picture taken “in my backyard”

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And for dessert

Emile Aillaud ,a creative and innovative architect ,does it again.

The next  picture was also taken “in my backyard”.

For years I have passed through this project, and asked myself,

What was the source of inspiration for this “gate”?

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La Defence – Emile Aillaud Architects – 1974-1983

 a sketch by Emile Aillaud Architect ,for gates in La Defence- near Paris–  1974-1983

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Epilogue:

It turns out that the sketches of the three towers, and the gate building, designed by Emil Aillaud, were widely published in the world press of those years.

 

 

 

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MVRDV and the Typology of Cantilever Buildings “In my backyard”

Posted in public buildings, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on July 31, 2018 by eliinbar

Eliinbar Sketches Cantilever Buildings

From Eliinbar’s Sketchbook 2018  – MVRDV and the Typology of Cantilever Buildings

“In my backyard“

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This post is the third

In a series of posts, I call “In my backyard“

In which I present for your review, buildings that I found “in my backyard” and photographed them for you.

All buildings are within 60 km from home

The choice to photograph these buildings was not random

They reminded me of forgotten posts

For you to judge

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In 2010 I published a post that presented a relatively new trend for that period

MVRDV ‘s

“Cantilever Buildings“

MVRDV WOZOCO housing complex

MVRDV Architects  Wozoco Housing For Eldery  Amsterdam 1994-1997

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8 Years After I posted MVRDV ‘s “Cantilever Buildings”, here is a building I photographed “In my backyard“

For you to judge

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Why did MVRDV designed a “Cantilever Building“?

This is the story as was published in  Archdaily

Stuck conforming to zoning regulations of the surrounding area, MVRDV calculated that only 87 of the proposed 100 units could fit the restricted footprint due to regulations about day lighting.

From this arose the idea of cantilevering the remaining units on the north facade, to connect to the transparent gallery of the main block found below while also opening up space on the rest of the site.

 

 

 

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