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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Met History [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:22 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BP] carnegie Opus
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> In a message dated 12/23/2004 2:55:06 PM Eastern Standard
> Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
> > Show me.
> in beachfront cottage, vinyl facing in overlapping shell
> patterns;
> in new york, cast stone units with rich textures and
> colors;
> instead of 1950's apartment houses with white glazed
> brick, all sorts of colors: chrome yellow, deep red rising to
> hot pink at the top, mottled grey like a stormy sea surface
> in north atlantic;
> zig-zag diaper pattern (a la doges palace)
> bolt on titanium facing rendered in log-size components
'Em 'ere's word pictures. I'm a visual person. Still waiting to be
shown.
One vinyl cottage with shell siding might be interesting; 10,000 in a
row because that's the only way they'd happen due to required economies
of scale for pattern production might take the edge off the novelty.
I like the rest. Surely we're already doing that with cast stone. I know
it can be (is already being?) done with GFRC. The colorful apartment
house surfaces would be rendered in terra cotta? Ala Kress?
Gladding-McBean would be glad for your color aesthetic take off. Gehry's
already doing metal buildings. They swoop rather than zig-zag, though.
The problem is we lack sufficiently motivated clients that desire to pay
for/explore these treatments.
> sign me, Did I Ever Tell You That Ken Frampton Admitted Me
> To The Architectural Association But I Broke Up With
> L............. S..... After Our Summer Working For The
> Architect In Nigeria And So Didn't Go?
Ever any regrets about either outcome?
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