an architecture

Hahahaha.

2017-01-10T20:17:00.001+01:00

"a happy place."

Alt Erlaa

2015-08-16T14:31:00.001+02:00

"Mahü" - Clutter / Zeug.

2015-08-09T16:09:00.002+02:00

Mariahilfer Straße "neu". Viel Zeug / Much clutter.

Balkonien.

2015-08-08T12:09:00.001+02:00

Freiraum. #wien

Gemeindebau 1926/1992

2015-08-05T18:46:00.001+02:00

#vienna

Sauerkraut

2015-08-02T18:29:00.001+02:00

Sauerkraut #vienna

washed-out concrete

2015-08-01T17:34:00.001+02:00

washed-out concrete house. #vienna

a parklet.

2015-07-28T20:19:00.001+02:00

A parklet, isn't it? #hipster_urbanism #bobo_urbanismus

Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of the Smart (Phone).

2015-03-27T18:03:00.001+01:00

An hommage to Koolhaas' "Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, The Strip". (Link, MoMA)

European Central Bank HQ Opening.

2015-03-18T22:08:00.001+01:00

The European Central Bank HQ (by Coop Himmelblau) inauguration.

The Perfect Condo.

2015-03-14T18:28:00.001+01:00

The perfect bathroom - even better than 432 Park Avenue, NY.

Belka and Strelka.

2015-02-09T17:29:00.000+01:00

Belka and Strelka were two Soviet space dogs orbiting for one day around Earth before safely returning home (1960, Sputnik 5).

Tech's Offices of the Future.

2015-02-05T22:40:00.000+01:00

Tech's offices of the future (source: bloomberg TV).

Elevation Sketch - Adolf Loos - 1904.

2015-02-03T23:31:00.000+01:00

Adolf Loos, "Allgemeine Verkehrsbank", unrealized, 1904 (photo from the MAK exhibition "Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Their Impact")

Berlin 1962 - no illusion.

2015-02-03T09:00:00.000+01:00

Berlin 1962 - no illusion.

VIENNA - NOW OR NEVER.

2015-02-01T19:55:00.003+01:00

Persiflage of the VIENNA - NOW OR NEVER campain. #Vienna
(photo by Initiative Denkmalschutz, Brown Boveri-Werke, Gudrunstraße 187, Friday 30.01.2015)

Unhappy Cooling Tower.

2015-01-21T12:44:00.000+01:00

Fehlbar.

2015-01-21T10:35:00.000+01:00

"Ganzer Platz. Fehlbare werden für Umtriebe behaftet" #Basel

Tour de Lille.

2015-01-20T16:19:00.002+01:00

Bringing the War Home - Martha Rosler.

2015-01-19T18:03:00.002+01:00

Loop de Loop - by NL Architects.

2014-12-01T10:45:00.000+01:00

view on site

Containers come in many different sizes and dimensions, yet the sculptural qualities of assemblage are limited to orthogonal compositions. But by one relatively simple operation -bisecting, rotating and reassembling- intriguing new configurations are possible. The containers will be combined together at their end points: any continuous tube can be constructed: Loop ‘d’ Loop.

building parts of Loop-de-Loop

The void of the interior can now be explored. It can accommodate many different programs, it can provide shelter, it can contain a path, a stair, a route. Partly opening up sidewalls is easy; it will offer multiple perspectives over the Sites and the City.

section through containers

Loop-de-Loop could serve as information booth, as exhibition space, as adventure came, as a ‘ride’, as ‘view generator’, as cafe, as site canteen, as theatre, as auditorium, as skybox, as Logo.

After sometime Loop-‘d’-Loop can be taken apart, transported elsewhere and be reassembled in a new way: a continuous process of destruction and renewal. It’s appearance always reminiscent of the building site, blending in in a twisted fashion. (Text: NL Architects)

Loop de Loop from anarchitecture on Vimeo.
Design: NL Architects, Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse
Team: Wim Sjerps, Christoph Wassmann, Annarita Papeschi, Sören Grünert, Beatriz Ruiz de la Torre, Sarah Möller

Competitions and the Guggenheim Competition. 18,336,780 € Worth of Work.

2014-11-11T10:15:00.000+01:00

An infographic video regarding the massive impact and response Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition has had. A reflexion regarding the direction architectural competitions are heading nowadays, and the enormous management process involved.
Guggenheim Helsinki // Architectural Competition Data from Taller de Casqueria on Vimeo.

"There is an incredibly amount of wasted effort in the profession. A fair amount is generated through the procedure of competitions. Which is really like a complete drain of intelligence. I don't know any other profession that would tolerate this. On the same time you are important and we invite you thinking, but there is a 80% change* that we threw away your thinking a make sure that it is completely wasted." (Rem Koolhaas, from Urbanized by Gary Hustwit, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqvjicbY1KE)

*surely not in the case of the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition

Highline Vienna / Wien (Spittelauer Lände).

2014-11-07T14:59:00.000+01:00

The path between the Donaukanal and the waste incinerating plant (decorated by Friedensreich Hundertwasser)

The low-budget Zaha Hadid housing project

The "Skywalk Spittelau", by Bulant & Wailzer

Hauptbahnhof Wien - Stadtschrift 1957 - 2014.

2014-10-25T13:47:00.000+02:00

Logorama - City of Brands.

2014-10-21T17:11:00.001+02:00

This is the academy award winning (2010) animated short "Logorama" by the French animation collective H5. Branding, architecture and graphic design beautifully scary united.

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.