Modern Architecture
Hi, I was wondering if some other polycounters are interested in modern architecture. For example I've been following http://www.spaceinvading.com/ for a while and it just gives me lots of motivation and inspiration, I think it's beautiful. Mirror's Edge is my favourite game when it comes to visuals too btw 
Sooo if you know any other blogs/sites like spaceinvading let me know!
Sooo if you know any other blogs/sites like spaceinvading let me know!
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Also there's that deputy-dog blog, I think that often has cool buildings and design on it. http://deputydog.wordpress.com/
Has all kind of stuff.....
Funny how real life stuff can be so much more thought-provoking and ballsy than what is seen in fantasy videogames huh P
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary.html
has some rather interesting stuff.
cheers,
io
This one's interesting. It's not strictly about gawking at cool architecture, but it has cool stuff, and interesting essays, if you're into that sort of thing.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
in my opinion, a house should be purposeful (which i think is a maximum usability of the room the house contains) and shouldnt contain weird shapes (like a house from an architect student ive seen recently, he made two houses and connected them with a tube , and made some weird windows, it looked like this guy just figered out booleans in 3dsmax or something)
and most importand, useless expensive things are totally annoying:
at a school i was attemting, they covered th whole house with riffled wood and glass over it, because they thought it would heat it in winter and cool in summer, but that was nonsense and so the house is freaking cold in winter and like a sauna in summer.
another example is for that is art
since official buildings should pay 5% of there budged for art araund here, there is crappy pseudo art everywhere
(i mean wooden blocks and such things just standing around , okok, i need to get a camera, then i can show you what i mean)
ok, enough of moaning, but you should understand why i see modern architecture critical
what i liked was some guy who made a greenhouse and build himself somekind of favela thing inside whith alot of tropical plants surounding it. it looked awesome and was something some people could call modern architecture
edit: you should know that my house is full of stucco and has huge windows which looks good but isnt really practical.
your criticisms seem misplaced
http://static.ringierasia.com/hf/CCTV.jpg
are planes supposed to fly throu there?
its just the problem if it makes sence or not, and some simply dont
I actually recommend the writings/articles/compilations of stuff (!) by Koolhaas. Quite the idea man.
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Mutations-Stefano-Boeri/dp/8495273519/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261478410&sr=8-5[/ame]
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Content-Rem-Koolhaas/dp/3822830704/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261478434&sr=8-4[/ame]
http://www.cctv.com/newSiteProgram/en/project_info.htm
No reason in improving the perfect.
http://stream.bentley.com/MEDIA50/Viewer/?peid=8daff1abe4b44b779ffa09c7ef8e5c90#
26 minutes, and entirely engrossing