museum langen foundation, raketenstation hombroich 2004.
architect: tadao ando, b. 1941
maybe the coldest building I have ever visited, bordering on the meaningless...ando is better with small projects, my clever japanese colleague said diplomatically.
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seier+seier 52 months ago | reply
scleroplex: I have a few interiors but they are too terrible...I prefer to show projects that have moved me...
seier+seier 52 months ago | reply
ben, I am sure they have flickr in texas too :)
I have been wanting to return but we didn't want to go to the U.S. under the former president. we have a plan to go east to west through the southernmost states in a rented car - but it won't happen in the near future as far as I can see.
Tina Ulrika 52 months ago | reply
We did that but opposite direction (San Francisco to New Orleans) and it was the best trip ever where both of us (me too) dedicated us fully to taking photos. I had only wished we had allowed a bit more time for it; now it became a lot of eight ours drives by doing the trip in only two weeks.
seier+seier 52 months ago | reply
two weeks is not a lot of time. we did the west coast from north to south in three weeks when we were students and would have liked at least another week. great trip though.
jiattison 52 months ago | reply
i visited a mega ando project in japan - the awaji yumeibutai - years ago as a student and it was a mega disappointment too. b4 that ando was my hero...
seier+seier 52 months ago | reply
when I saw his little japanese row house in books as a student, I felt I understood exactly what he was about - and I loved it, the resistance and the anger behind it.
but it does not scale well.
-fCh- 52 months ago | reply
There are some elements one could see here as the continuation of Ando's Fort Worth project--the shallow surrounding water, green grass, and the blue glass structure (carcass?)--but his Modern is of a different scale, somehow sorely unmatched by the contemporary art is usually hosts.
tornbjerg 52 months ago | reply
We do have flickr in Texas, coincidentally. And Danes as well. There is much to see in Dallas/Fort Worth with Foster, Piano, OMA added to Pei and the abovementioned. Been watching the site for a while and love the photos, Seier - and the commentary. If passing through Texas, don't miss Austin.
-fCh- 52 months ago | reply
tornbjerg, no need to be defensive. I can also vouch for the many architectural islands in the otherwise sea of sameness Dallas-Ft. Worth is.
As for Austin, yes, it looks more and more like an architects' paradise. However, its undoing will likely come also from its own unfettered growth.
seier+seier 51 months ago | reply
I love it when people start discussions of their own here :)
and I would so like to see texas again. haven't been to the states since october '01. it is high time.
tornbjerg 51 months ago | reply
No defense intended, maybe it was my formerly grumpy looking icon. Anyway just vouching for Seier's comment about Texas being a peculiar place.
Austin is a paradise in many ways, but the architecture has a ways to go. We are doing our best: www.bcarc.com.
scleroplex 51 months ago | reply
stop by boston!
it will be an honour to show you around :-)
-fCh- 51 months ago | reply
Tom, Chapeau bas! ...for your structural engineering background and all the great things at BCARC--your East Austin project resonates well with me, in addition to the more obvious ones.
scleroplex, is your invite specifically/exclusively addressed to seier^3, or mere mortals such as myself qualify as well?
tornbjerg 51 months ago | reply
-fCh-, thank you for the kind words.
A-NNEE 51 months ago | reply
一個巨大的玻璃籠子 哈哈~
seier+seier 51 months ago | reply
not even google translate could help me with that one - but it looks good :)
jiattison 51 months ago | reply
i think a-nede commented that it is a "huge glass cage, haha."
seier+seier 51 months ago | reply
yes, it is a glass cage for the exhibition of architecture tourists :)
The Challenge 31 months ago | reply
this is simply stunningly beautiful building
seier+seier 31 months ago | reply
I like to try to see more than one side of things, but in this case I have to say: I went there, and it is a terrible building. it is, however, a very photogenic, terrible building.