The Krzywy Domek (Crooked House) shopping centre in Sopot, Poland. Designed in 2004 by architects Szotynscy & Zaleski.
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Above: The National Library of Belarus in Minsk; Grand Lisboa Hotel in Macau; the Mirador Building in Madrid; the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Christ the King in Liverpool and Torre Velasca in Milan, Italy.
Subjective. Arguable. Controversial.
A gallery of architectural horror awaits.
23 PIC GALLERY: Are These The Ugliest Buildings In The World? (Telegraph)
Meanwhile in Ireland, Chompsky (somewhat predictably) nominates the Civic Offices (1980) at Dublin’s Wood Quay, although he’s secretly quite fond of them:
The brainchild of Italian architect Stefano Boeri, the €65 million ‘Bosco Verticale’ is already under construction in Milan.
When complete, the skyscrapers will contain luxury apartments, each one equipped with a copious balcony specially designed to hold around 900 small trees and other plants. If planted on the ground the total vegetation would cover an area of 10,000 square metres.
World’s first vertical forest under constuction in Milan (thisbigcity)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYedjvmoaug
A recent CNNMoney interview with Patty Findlay – current owner of the Magic Mushroom House in Aspen Colorado, designed and built in the 1970s by architect Andre Ulrych, who was tripping balls the whole time.
The images of the interior were taken by photographer Michael Brands from this 2009 NYT article.
Inspired by the shell of the Nautilus, Ulrych made sure there were no corners in the design. A wise move.
That’s where goblins would probably hide.
OK.
Leitrim.
But still.
The walls are insulated with a soy-based foam sprayed in the cavity: last winter, temperatures dropped to -15C, but the house stayed warm, heated by only a 1.5kw Dimplex heater (still the only source of heat).
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It’s the façade of an old carpenter’s workshop in London, rehabilitated and converted by architect Jack Woolley, who sez:
The original workshop is set behind an old wall that links two 19th century terraces, forming a gap that frames a borrowed landscape of tree canopies. the aim of the design was to double the inhabitable volume without compromising the integrity of wall or landscape.
To be fair though, in fairness.
SIPTU Gets Permission To Demolish Liberty Hall (RTE)
Documentary: Liberty Hall by Paddy Cahill here (24mins)
And the proposed replacement:
Hmm.
Because we’re too big, dammit.
The extraordinary ‘bonsai treehouse’ creations of artist, former maze illustrator and architect Takanori Aiba who sez:
All my works are created through my extraordinary fantastic and sometimes even chemical imaginations. However, they do not like pipe dreams. In fact people believe that they are real buildings and spaces because I depict not only the outline but also all of elaborate details in each works. I create image of the side, back, and even the inside of the buildings. My eyes circle around, and sometimes intentionally wander between buildings in the space. Eyes are like those of bird or like those of wind.
Baby, you had us at ‘chemical’…
Above: Hôtel de Michelin, the Rock Island, the Lighthouse and Hawaiian Pineapple Resort.
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A new work by German street artist EVOL, who uses stencils and spraypaint to turn slabs of concrete into miniature brutalist architecture.
PREVIOUSLY: Look At This High-Rise Trench
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Freelance architectural illustrator, Victor Enrich, creates surreal photo-realistic images – often with a political twist – by applying 3D architectural visualization to photographs he takes as he travels the globe. These are part of his take on the architecture of Tel Aviv.