Ever get that feeling that you can’t be caged, closed in, kept in a box? Well, this guy’s house was clearly designed to alleviate that feeling! I don’t know if I could live there, because I suspect all the angular bits would make me feel a bit dizzy, but I would love to visit!
Pilot’s Home Uses Height + Glass to Create a Feeling of Flight | Designs & Ideas on Dornob.
Changsha Meixihu International Culture & Arts Centre – Architecture – Zaha Hadid Architects.
Given the size (400 employees) and scope (44 countries), it seems likely that I am the last one around to hear of Zaha Hadid. Architect, designer, international maker of magic … I find the designs to be way too awesome. I was frankly a bit shocked to discover just how much of her is out in the world, because it being so distinctly sympathetic to my own style preferences, and having never heard of this, I was sure I was looking at something obscure. (Turns out, I was just living under a rock. Such is life.)
The swoops! The whorls! The echoed linear forms! The natural, yet otherworldly effect of the transitions from flat to curved! The eye-teasing spaces created inside the forms!
These tiny pictures don’t do justice to Zaha Hadid, of course, are are from just ONE project out of hundreds to be seen on the company web site. Do click through and check this out. You’ll be glad you did.
Here is where I start whining about how I need to live longer, to be able to see some of these things come to fruition. Not because this particular thing is likely to take longer than I am going to live (assuming it gets built at all), but because it seems like architecture is finally moving away from the blocky practicality that has dominated, and I like that. And I want to survive until we’ve gotten bored with the blocky, practical stuff, tear it down, and build interesting things. And that can take a while.
In the meanwhile, I have the architecture blog aggregators to keep me entertained…
Highly Adaptable Student Campus – eVolo | Architecture Magazine.
MuCEM by rudy riccioti sports a delicate concrete filigree.
Click through to see more wild images of this amazing surface / environment!
There will be more of my own work coming soon. I got to a point where I could solder some of the stained glass panels together, and then realized I didn’t have any flux. (Without flux, I can melt the solder, but that is basically the end of the fun. There is no assembly, the solder won’t stick to the glass pieces.)
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