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Architecture The Dream of Glass
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:07 PM
I absolutely love this image of the Prada store in Tokyo—it was designed by Herzog and de Meuron.
The building was made for this image, which was taken by Wili Hybrid. But the actual home for this work is not Tokyo but our very own Freeway Park.
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someone try arguing that H & dM aren't the best architects in the world. show me a project that's lower than an A-.
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awesome structure, indeed; here's a photo i took of it at night a few years ago (not that good of a photo but it shows the transparency pretty well).
@2 FYI, it looks to be designed much like Charles' other favorite building -- the Seattle Central Library -- for resisting earthquakes. All that steel on the exterior isn't holding the building up, but it resists lateral motion from earthquakes; it's like a whole wall of "cross-bracing," which is extremely stiff and way more than typical buildings have. The glass is probably set in some gaskets that will flex and keep it from breaking. In other words, this building isn't going anywhere in an earthquake.
@2 FYI, it looks to be designed much like Charles' other favorite building -- the Seattle Central Library -- for resisting earthquakes. All that steel on the exterior isn't holding the building up, but it resists lateral motion from earthquakes; it's like a whole wall of "cross-bracing," which is extremely stiff and way more than typical buildings have. The glass is probably set in some gaskets that will flex and keep it from breaking. In other words, this building isn't going anywhere in an earthquake.
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If people look around the they would realize some building look awful because they lack design and planning. Just saying it looks like a window in my shower or looks Tetris inspired doesn't explain what you actually like in architecture. Simply put: This building looks better than most buildings.
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