projects i like... a lot

Of course I couldn't find anything inspirational allllll summer long that I wanted to use as a DD project, and then right after we go through the selection process, I find a million and a half other AMAZING projects that I would die to be working on right now. Thought I'd share these before I forget about them, they are all really captivating and I would love to go and see them - if they ever get built.

1. Zaha, Hague Competition (2010?)
          I almost died when I saw Steve and Kyle post this as one of their choices for the DD project, I would go through almost anything to see this building, and I even wanted sooo bad for someone to be able to dd this project, but it's too big to tackle in one semester.

2. 3Xn, Uterecht Library

                      This project really calls to me, I think I begin to see some of my inner-workings when I think about the real reasons why I like this thing... and as stupid as the reasons are to write down or for other people to read, you just have to understand that there are some things that pull at your heart that I would laugh at or not understand, and so there are also things that really get to me that are stupid and useless.... but sometimes this strange things we are attracted to give us a vision of our core. So what I keep thinking about when I see this project is the veil from tim burton's corpse bride movie and every time I see this building it makes me sad to think about that story, and just about all of the implications of a veil... what it means for so many people, it's varations and the sadness that I associate with veils now. I guess it's those crazy sorts of associations that do me in for being able to express myself without feeling like an idiot, but there's something insde of me that makes that movie so overwhelmingly sad that I love it, and the same goes for this sad, veiled building that is so magnificant at the same time.

 

3. BIG Architects, the Ted Building
                        This one reminds me of one of the passageways we walked up through on one of the hills of Rome (yea Blanchard would kill me right now, and my inner 'wanting-to-be-a-historic-pres person' is kiling me, too, but it's one in the morning and there are a million other things on my mind, that I should be doing...) whatever. I like this project pretty much for this one view they show in a render. (and for the fact that the building has a name... Ted.... awesome name for a building)

This view reminds me of when we walked up through a passageway in Blanchard's class, I remember we walked through a stairwell with a man playing the guitar and arrived at a church with a huge epitatph carved by Michelangelo, with Moses sitting in the middle. I just can't remember what hill it was, or what church... I think on the walk there Blanchard was asking us if we knew what hills we were on... I definitely didn't.

Okay, well these are the three projects that have recently caught my eye and soul... I guess more the first two were important, especially the second one, but the other two have their perks that make them interesting as well. For now though, I should really be getting some sleep, especially if I want the Netherlands to be hearing something coherent tomorrow.

- c