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treading lightly on the landscape, the building cantilevers out 27 meters to a point 18 meters above the terrain below.
franck bohbot traveled to richard neutra's VDL research house II and documented it, capturing two generations of architectural experimentation.
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the micro-hotel room is enclosed by a tiny topography of stepping terraces.
the architects say that the building, and the activity that takes place within it, is meant to transform the way in which buildings are designed, engineered, and built.
This is NOT in South Central Los Angeles. It is in the western part of Los Angeles and is adjacent to Culver City.
my my, such shallow comments from our couch critics. (some euro design snobs should be tar & feathered for their shallow vision, associative behavior, & elitist attitude).
don’t write this cat off so quick. he has a few early deconstructivist projects that are quite profound in substance.
if you know LA & it’s chaotic motion with no center, this building is somewhat appropriate. although, a plan & section would have been nice.
signed: the german wankker-walter
nonsense
Like bird nest in beijing olympic games
glass?!
in all fairness, he was playing with the idea of structural lines wrapping the facade for some time, long before the birds nest stadium, etc. This just happens to be poorly done.
Oh look, our office just figured out how to sweep shapes in Rhino…
Generic!
not again, not another US (american as they say) architect copying european talent !
besides the horrible result