Comments on: Wild skyscraper designs awarded

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:09:00 +0000

I hate everything about the vertical landfill. We have those now. It’s called a “hole”.

You don’t get a skyscraper-sized hole without moving a skyscraper-sized pile of dirt first… which means either creating a mountain or finding another skyscraper-sized hole to put it in.

Anyway, these designs are supposed to be conceptual exercises to encourage radical new ways of thinking about architecture, they aren’t really meant as especially practical proposals.

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:32:00 +0000

What better way to demonstrate your superiority to a conquered people, than to build an army of war of the worlds invader tri-legged abnominations right on top of their beloved landscape. Queue some cliche Avatar dialog about or something.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:11:00 +0000

My take on Gehry is that I like man-made things to look man-made. Wright would probably hate me, but there’s no accounting for taste.

By: Nicholas Rich

Nicholas Rich — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:02:00 +0000

Walleeee

By: Jed Goldstone

Jed Goldstone — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:23:00 +0000

I would like to note that the first place project “Himalaya Water Tower” is a further (conceptual) push at the imposition of Han Chinese structures on Tibet (viz the Qinghai–Tibet Railway).

By: Rhett Holechek

Rhett Holechek — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:43:00 +0000

I hate everything about the vertical landfill. We have those now. It’s called a “hole”. Before I get flamed on “water polution/etc…” Use whatever materials you were going to use to go up to line the inside. Why would you want a 3000ft pole of garbage in the middle of your city? The other entries are cool though.

By: yri

yri — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:29:00 +0000

For the most part, I find avant-garde building styles to be exercises in wanking. Don’t get me started on Gehry’s Experience Music Project!

But this, this is magnificent. I never understood why Frank Lloyd Wright’s stuff was supposedly so harmonious with nature; if anything, it was just a collection of boxes – hardly a natural shape. This concept really =is= designed to harmonise with the shape of the mountain. Beautiful.

By: jort bloem

jort bloem — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:21:00 +0000

I nominate James Cameron, for “Home Tree” in Avatar.

By: Teknad

Teknad — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:51:00 +0000

The first winner reminds me of this

http://www.jccavern.co.uk/images/white%20mountains%20b2.jpg