Diegetics

The international (ArchDaily) prize winning Vodafone headquarters in Oporto, northern Portugal. It takes imagination but it also takes some courage by the firm itself. The architects (very probably unknown outside Portugal) were José António Barbosa and Pedro Magalhães.

Penguin House:

Fallingwater





Celebrating 75 years of Art in Nature, 1936-2011



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Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece house above the waterfall

Wonderful. Thanks.

It is interesting that the modernist house style did not take hold in the US.

Instead there has been a proliferation of faux McMansions and McChateaus.

To continue on my soapbox,
I also think that many modernist large commercial structures do not succeed, whereas smaller scale structures, as exemplified by Eichler Homes, do.

I thought I'd start with a model of the Humboldt-Forum, a reconstruction (more or less) of the Berliner Stadtschloss.



This is what was demolished to make way for it, the DDR era Palast der Republik.



Architecture can be very political, especially in Berlin.

A woman posing by the Palast der Republik . . . I don't know what this is about, but it meets with my approval.

Frank Gehry's Beekman building is fabulous. The look of distortion really catches you off guard when you first see it because the proportions are right for a plane double-tower. When you look closer you see all sorts of ripples and distortions in the facade. It's really trippy.

Nice, I am glad people are thinking out of the box. Good to see.

That building looks like it could be from the movie Inception. Very cool.

I just noticed that there was already an that I missed. Oops.

An unusual project by Carlo Santambrogio:

If I lived there I would keep a bowl of throwing stones on my coffee table.

you would want to be an extrovert, it would give me nightmares.

Flood the interior and put in some goldfish (or koi).