Architecture

Lisnaholic · 03-14-2021, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

here's an insane but also beautiful apartment complex from China. I love all the little oddities you can spot.

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Wow! That's an extraordinary building, Marie!
Two things I like most: that it doesn't take much tweaking of conventional geometric shapes to come up with something completely new, and that the architect is modest enough to let the tenants' choices dictate how his building will ultimately look.

Famous for the opposite approach, to the point of bolting furniture to the floor so that tenants wouldn't move pieces around and "spoil" his building, is Frank Lloyd Wright. Plenty of other architects see a commission as an opportunity to thrust their ego and arrogance on others imo.

Still, to go back and defend FLW, his designs could be incredible. In this thread, 15 minutes is a long time to spend on one building, but when you see what an absolute jewel this building is, I hope you'll consider it justified:

By today's standards, there's perhaps too much inventiveness in this building: decoration everywhere you look, and rather cleverly, the only rest from it all is in the hotel bedrooms.