very compelling tupperware dinosaur in a glass box...the seamless bathtub quality is beautiful for now, hope it holds up...interesting solution to the windowless room problem for museums...the biomorphic animal is like a public sculpture, a landmark in a huge vitrine...thank you for the video
I think our over-sensitive dealing with historical buildings is telling about how architecture is currently approached. Scarpa demolished parts of historical Castle Vecchio because he thought it told a better historical story when modified while the Brutalists demolished massive pieces of historical architecture, so great was their confidence in their vision. Today we’re too scared to do anything 😂😂 but I love this approach actually. We honour the past in that way and acknowledge that time will judge our own work, either by demolition or preservation.
Like you said, it can be opposite. I think that we should start calling it ‘inverse’ because if you look at the Port House in Artwerp, it is ‘opposite’ in every way to the point where it doesn’t relate at all. ‘Inverse’ is a very particular type of opposite. That’s just something in my head and not a critique of the video but rather a critique of some other architecture.
There is a lot I like about the project but I am interested in relatability as I feel it’s one way to approach character and avoid genericness. I feel this is the weak point for me because the point of relatability of this project is (as you said) a bathtub. I think it irrelevant and slightly derogatory.
I do appreciate the departure from traditional context, but also question the notion of a material that would better befit a ship or airplane that people hardly touch, something that looks like fiberglass but isnt so. Architecture ought to seek ways of humanizing buildings through familiar natural or composite materials that even remotely relate to the earth we live upon rather than attempt to imbibe a material that no matter how often it may be used again in future, does not support human tectonic and tactile memory. Visual stimulation is one thing and tactile sensibility is another. It is the same with glass. However, glass comes with the duality of being physical with minimal visibility and is used primarily for climate control. Ive seen and lived in great modern buildings in Asia and Africa that have little or no glass. Louis Kahn’s buildings outside the USA are a case in point. Corbusier’s Chapel at Ronchamp is another. So is Jose Sert’s Joan Miro Museum in Spain. Jorn Utzon who shot to fame with the Sydney Opera also has other great examples such as the Kuwait Assembly and his own residence in Majorca, Spain among many. Great buildings humanize in more ways than one. It is what makes them timeless. Otherwise buildings become temporal wonders that become dated as soon as the era of vogue passes on.
What to you think of the renovation? Do you like Benthem Crouwel's project? Let. me. know!
The philosophy of "if you can't (or don't want to) match it, make it totally different", has served me well over the years.
very compelling tupperware dinosaur in a glass box...the seamless bathtub quality is beautiful for now, hope it holds up...interesting solution to the windowless room problem for museums...the biomorphic animal is like a public sculpture, a landmark in a huge vitrine...thank you for the video
Good video ! When realized the new entrance/wing looked very strange but after a while it was appreciated and now it fits in the Amsterdam fabric.
I actually still have my reservations about the project. I think it could have been more, though it seems like the city adopted it well!
I think our over-sensitive dealing with historical buildings is telling about how architecture is currently approached. Scarpa demolished parts of historical Castle Vecchio because he thought it told a better historical story when modified while the Brutalists demolished massive pieces of historical architecture, so great was their confidence in their vision.
Today we’re too scared to do anything 😂😂 but I love this approach actually. We honour the past in that way and acknowledge that time will judge our own work, either by demolition or preservation.
In love with it!
Muito bom! 💡
Amsterdam is at the risk of settling into the waters, is it not? Is this one built on piles?
Who made the music in the first 2 minutes?
Thnx dude
Like you said, it can be opposite. I think that we should start calling it ‘inverse’ because if you look at the Port House in Artwerp, it is ‘opposite’ in every way to the point where it doesn’t relate at all. ‘Inverse’ is a very particular type of opposite.
That’s just something in my head and not a critique of the video but rather a critique of some other architecture.
There is a lot I like about the project but I am interested in relatability as I feel it’s one way to approach character and avoid genericness.
I feel this is the weak point for me because the point of relatability of this project is (as you said) a bathtub. I think it irrelevant and slightly derogatory.
I do appreciate the departure from traditional context, but also question the notion of a material that would better befit a ship or airplane that people hardly touch, something that looks like fiberglass but isnt so. Architecture ought to seek ways of humanizing buildings through familiar natural or composite materials that even remotely relate to the earth we live upon rather than attempt to imbibe a material that no matter how often it may be used again in future, does not support human tectonic and tactile memory. Visual stimulation is one thing and tactile sensibility is another. It is the same with glass. However, glass comes with the duality of being physical with minimal visibility and is used primarily for climate control. Ive seen and lived in great modern buildings in Asia and Africa that have little or no glass. Louis Kahn’s buildings outside the USA are a case in point. Corbusier’s Chapel at Ronchamp is another. So is Jose Sert’s Joan Miro Museum in Spain. Jorn Utzon who shot to fame with the Sydney Opera also has other great examples such as the Kuwait Assembly and his own residence in Majorca, Spain among many. Great buildings humanize in more ways than one. It is what makes them timeless. Otherwise buildings become temporal wonders that become dated as soon as the era of vogue passes on.