tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post5451112278799660214..comments2024-03-27T06:24:30.922-04:00Comments on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books: Glass Box TrendsJohn Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14842328320680692310noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-26302845703398406842009-07-27T23:01:46.762-04:002009-07-27T23:01:46.762-04:00You called those a trend!? MahaNakorn looks like ...You called those a trend!? MahaNakorn looks like it has been chewed off by a gigantic rat. From many Bangkokians' points of view, this building is 'broken' and 'will bring a lot of bad lucks'. I also don't see how it relates to anything?? Looking at today's economy of a developing country, construction cost vs. rental fee...OMA would be lucky to see Mahanakorn gets built.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17937045796452174370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-75387432168964755242009-07-24T06:59:39.540-04:002009-07-24T06:59:39.540-04:00Well let me just disagree with you guys.
i dont s...Well let me just disagree with you guys.<br /><br />i dont see that they look the same at all (and i am talking about urban strategy and urban intervention not architectural details that well yes they look the same).<br /><br />OMA's Bankok Tower as i see it is more integrated and communicating with its environment. since more than 20 years OMA is exploring and developing Delirious New York Analysis. getting Population or more accurately urban flow to integrate spatially with Architecture. <br /><br />TOWERS since they started to rise were just sticks on a plan.. interacting with each other but not with pple on the ground.. solitary in their circle..<br /><br />Transportation has come and just changed evthg. pple now are traveling cruising around getting involved directly in the streets.. for me i guess RK wanted to make these towers alive. also he began working (AMO and b4 that) with the unit/pixel .. flow.. power of the people .. Chicago, NEW YORK, MIES etc.. he explored it.. and now u see the results of the combination of all this.. he is succeeding in making an imapct not just Architecture.. BUT urban side.. he is redesigning the city in his own way and he is just making the others follow him..<br /><br />u might say that H&M had this project way b4 Thailand Tower.. but just look at H&M Tower.. ugly and grotesque in its environment.. its repulsing next to empire state building and well all the others.. and just guys look at OMA's Tower in front of it.. just look at the intervention as a whole and dnt go in2 details (glass boxes.. terraces etc...) these are details.. at the end who's making the impact on ground who's letting flow interact with the building thats.. ARCHITECTURE..Aline Chahinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17748062981374421388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-83133435125531213232009-07-23T21:48:22.744-04:002009-07-23T21:48:22.744-04:00Thanks God, so I'm not the only one that has b...Thanks God, so I'm not the only one that has been thinking that on the close-up view the two projects are identical...KKAA - Kengo Kuma & Associateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15298568302215187909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-9852831691126991032009-07-23T19:57:32.012-04:002009-07-23T19:57:32.012-04:00A one-liner, maybe. But many successful comics ha...A one-liner, maybe. But many successful comics have built entire careers on one-liners.<br />I kinda like the Bangkok building, though I liked it more before you pointed out the deconstruction spirals.eBohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15094855245959233770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-27014027555670634842009-07-23T19:53:14.364-04:002009-07-23T19:53:14.364-04:00Thailand bldg doesn't look good...looks like a...Thailand bldg doesn't look good...looks like a huge scar that will make the view look horrible. Maybe they need to repeat the scar more.Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338417648745772926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-41145108375173721702009-07-23T18:18:14.922-04:002009-07-23T18:18:14.922-04:00Look at the people on the last picture. I know nob...Look at the people on the last picture. I know nobody who 'll feel save on a terras made with glass panel on the 123 floor... Great but unrealisticUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12117369129666185848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-82397023080955104612009-07-23T13:08:15.215-04:002009-07-23T13:08:15.215-04:00I still prefer Mies. Why hasn't anyone been a...I still prefer Mies. Why hasn't anyone been able to match the grace of his towers?Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09026596812619432477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531343.post-14395841890419510612009-07-23T12:22:37.602-04:002009-07-23T12:22:37.602-04:00Those images freak me out. The one on the left, e...Those images freak me out. The one on the left, especially, evokes for me the WTC towers after the impact on 911.drhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18394331250444204958noreply@blogger.com