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[danlam07]

This board still active?

[CheezyTang]

Santiago Calatrave - Fordham tower

Proposed for a prominent 2.2 acre site on North Water Street, adjacent to Lake Shore Drive and near the entrance to Navy Pier, the Fordham Spire will rise to a height of 1,458 feet at its roof and approximately 2,000 feet at the tip of its spire, making it the tallest building in the nation.


Calatrava’s design is a tall, slender form whose glass facade seems to ripple downward in waves, like the folds of a cloak swirling around a figure. This effect is achieved by means of a structural innovation.
Each floor unit of the tower is built out from the central core like a separate box, with gently curving, concave sides. As these boxes are stacked up, each is rotated by a little more than 2 degrees from the one below. The result is that the floors turn 270 degrees around the core as they rise, giving the facade an impression of movement.

http://www.arcspace.com/architects/calatrava/fordham/fordham.html

[polkamatic]

"Architecture is sometimes thought to be the most socially and historically revealing of all the arts because it depends most heavily on public support: it is harder for architects, particularly dealing with public buildings, to be as idiosyncratic as painters or poets."
--from World Civilizations, Stearns, et al




The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles

[polkamatic]

Great Pyramid was built inside out, Frenchman says
By Tim Hepher
Fri Mar 30, 12:12 PM ET



A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the inside out.

Previous theories have suggested Pharaoh Khufu's tomb, the last surviving example of the seven great wonders of antiquity, was built using either a vast frontal ramp or a ramp in a corkscrew shape around the exterior to haul up the stonework.

But flouting previous wisdom, Jean-Pierre Houdin said advanced 3D technology had shown the main ramp which was used to haul the massive stones to the apex was contained 10-15 meters beneath the outer skin, tracing a pyramid within a pyramid.

"This is better than the other theories, because it is the only theory that works," Houdin told Reuters after unveiling his hypothesis in a lavish ceremony using 3D computer simulation.
(Cont'd...)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070330/ts_nm/egypt_pyramid_dc_1&printer=1;_ylt=AsPEZcP69LJ8sF9P9kbi...

[Green_cat]

Thank you Cheezy! cool stuff in there though!

[CheezyTang]

here is a movie for you..

kind of artsy.

But the information and discussion that this movie creates is important, and should not be taken lightly in the construction community.

"Blue Vinyl" - 2002

http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bv.html

[Green_cat]

lottah homes here...we have alot of ""Vinyl Villages""
and brick verneer same ole same ole cribs!

[Green_cat]

right on..Compliments your smmmokin Architecture...we work hand-in-hand// Thank You!!

[CheezyTang]

not boring my friend....

these are great pics of some landscaping!

[Green_cat]

I got more, but I'd hate to bore yah...LOL

[Green_cat]

left for annual beds:

[Green_cat]

lil natural stuff:

[Green_cat]

2 or tree moe'

[Green_cat]

YO...CHEEZY..Here are some more Pimp-scapin furr yah(IDEAS)

[Green_cat]

Thank you doe'

[Green_cat]

Not my biz...I am the designer for all those pics doe....If yah need some ideas...go to Unilock.com
They have some pimp chit...firepits(fireplaces)
Juicy ideas for those well off...LOL!
I got a sick mind myself! the fatter the job...the fatter the commish!

[CheezyTang]

is that your biz?

good stuff. i really enjoy paver patios. This spring, i am taking down the pressure treated deck, and rebuilding it with a cedar deck/brick paver combo. i will post pics here, but will not be until about april.

[Green_cat]

we kindah got our site finished here ..lil CHEEZY still...gettin there...BABY STEPS

http://www.adamslandscape.com/photoalbum/default.asp?pagenum=2&album=20

[serfdom]

lol

[berge]

really worth it...glass and concrete with a lot of Japanese influence

[CheezyTang]

thanks serfy and berge...

for hanging out with me tonight....

i am going to retire for the night. serf, i will get on the house.

Dan

[berge]

I had a "private tour" of a Frank Lloyd Wright house...the entire interior was glass....if you opened all the interior drapes, you could see the shore from anywhere in the house

[CheezyTang]

a buck two eighty...lol..eom

[CheezyTang]

we can get something like it.....

we will get it!

[serfdom]

I definitely like the stone walls on that one. Put that in the spec. But a tad more earthy-colored.

Kay, what's next?

[CheezyTang]

if i am out that way, i will...

i need to take an architecture trip soon.

[serfdom]

There ya go! How much to have that installed lol?

[serfdom]

Wow, that's pretty nice...

[serfdom]

...actually, they use this for decks and tiles. I don't think you could apply it to a house. Darn.

[berge]

nice little shack...

[CheezyTang]

nice....i have to "favorite" that site.eom

[CheezyTang]

a nice view...

[serfdom]

This material is called "brickform" ------>>

http://www.brickform.com/

They have some interesting earthy tones available:

[berge]

It's circa 1922... http://www.makcenter.org/MAK_Schindler_House.php
A friend of mine was a relative, got to hang out and sit by this out door fire place one night. Amazing house.

[CheezyTang]

The block walls there are typical retaining walls that many suppliers have...sometimes called unilock block, because it is a dry lay and they are interlocking blocks. i like that....some architects only like field stone walls that take a freaking genius to lay....lol

the atrium space...garden...

think japanese rock garden with waterfall

[serfdom]

Jackpot:

Still to white for my tastes and larger than I'm looking for, but hey, this is one awesome looking exterior treatment...

[berge]

you should go tour the Schindler House in Hollywood

[serfdom]

Lookit this concrete block material...

That's nice, as long as it's not white but yellowish-brown. This is the "earth" element.

[CheezyTang]

ya...pretty good..

here is a website to a zinc panel maker:

http://www.vmzinc-us.com

[serfdom]

"stressed" - that's me lol

[CheezyTang]

work it...work it!! eom

[serfdom]

Zinc...hmmpf. Interesting...and low maintenance, I'll wager.

[CheezyTang]

i hear ya....some grain to it..

just like my logo!...now i see your taste!

[CheezyTang]

possibly...i will read up..

we use metal panels of all types now...

corrugated, flat seam, standing seam...you name it.

copper panels are great...but zinc panels are my favorite.

example of zinc panels at University of Hartford ISET building:



http://www.high-profile.com/2005/nov/wilson.html

[serfdom]

Yes, I like that idea. All three elements, combined with the inner atrium - now we have air, earth, fire, water.

The fire, of course, is the glass which is forged in a furnace.

A theme is developing!

[serfdom]

Maybe rough-hewn concrete - not smooth. You know, textury and lumpy.

[CheezyTang]

stone...glass...wood..

that is my cup of tea.....that is only the best!