Explore #163 June 20, 2009
This picture was featured on the "Your Best Shot 2009
Architecture" flickr blog, see:
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Marina City is a mixed-use residential/commercial tower complex designed by Bertrand Goldberg and completed in 1964. The lower floors, pictured here, are parking decks. It is even today strikingly different than everything else around it, with its interesting curvy and cylindrical corn-cob style. I find it fascinating for I like curvy buildings, as my photostream demonstrates.
I also found the sharp contrast here between this building and the one next to it (in the background to the right) irresistable -- curves and arches vs. straight-lines and squares, warm yellowish-white vs. cool blue, and smooth glass vs. rough concrete. Plus I found it quite curious in a traffic-congested city that this building with numerous parking levels had only one parked car.
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yushimoto_02 [christian] 39 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Pritzker Architecture Prize on Flickr, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
o palsson 39 months ago | reply
thank you for the invite, yushimoto: I just added it.
ajiro dernas 39 months ago | reply
The Pritzker Architecture Prize on flickr
If you have 7 or more awards (including invitation) please post here:
www.flickr.com/groups/pritzkerprizefirstchoice/
slavekR 39 months ago | reply
simply stunning!
The Pritzker Architecture Prize on flickr
If you have 7 or more awards (including invitation) please post here:
www.flickr.com/groups/pritzkerprizefirstchoice/
Fil.ippo 39 months ago | reply
Wonderful shot, great work!
o palsson 39 months ago | reply
Thank you, ajiro, slavekR and Fil.ippo. I appreciate your interest and positive feedback.
esanatha 39 months ago | reply
Excellent find.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize on flickr
Blue387 37 months ago | reply
This was used here:
jalopnik.com/5563228/a-one+car-garage-with-a-view
o palsson 37 months ago | reply
Thank you for letting me know, Blue387. Glad you found use for the picture.
o palsson 36 months ago | reply
Thank you for visiting, cube.ge.
tobybear 35 months ago | reply
Beautiful photo - and nice description.
o palsson 35 months ago | reply
Thank you, tobybear!
_Novecento_ 33 months ago | reply
really nice shot
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o palsson 33 months ago | reply
Thank you for that, Novecento!
thomaslewandovski 27 months ago | reply
excellent!
Yon Garin Fotógrafo · Argazkilaria 23 months ago | reply
very nice!
C's photo-artistry (A Little of This &That) 13 months ago | reply
Wow, what a great find!
C's photo-artistry (A Little of This &That) 13 months ago | reply
Beautiful !
EXPOSITION GROUP
o palsson 13 months ago | reply
Thank you, C!
mcortese1 9 months ago | reply
It looks cool how everything looks proportional :)