> -----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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Raleigh Historic             heretics live on forever"
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