Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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A truly functional building. There is a slightly unsettling feel to this: some of it might come from the lack of a figure but it also might be that when one looks at it on opening, one's mind starts to take one to a particular use and is then brought back to its actual function. A school corridor is one thought. Truly plain and ugly but given a (undeserved?) clean-cut beauty.
I know that I've said this before of one of your photos, but there is more imagination here on behalf of the photographer than the architect.
A great use of rectangles to create some interest and make us (or me, at least) look more deeply at a subject that we might otherwise seek to avoid.
A geometric delight. How could it be ugly? The lines in the roof kind of take me to the bottom of the stairs but then I don't want to leave as there is a lot more interest on the ground floor. The dark doors left play well against the much brighter mailbox doors. That right hand side pole is made to look significantly stronger (more powerful) through being much darker than its horizontal colleagues.
John, I hadn't thought of school corridors, but I know what you mean; this is somehow reminiscent of my junior high school.
I did think of waiting around for a figure to go up the stairs, but it was hot and my lunch break was running short.
When I see buildings like this, I wonder if the architect would like what I have done. Were they proud of the building? Would they want someone to approach it as art? Or were they just trying to knock up a quick building for a developer?
Matt - those latter questions are good ones and I would love to know the answers. I fear that the latter question would take one closer to the answer. But maybe I shouldn't have used "ugly" and just stuck with functional. Places like this turn ugly when they are not maintained or cleaned.
The more I've looked at this, the more I've found to like -- even though it is certainly not a subject that would inspire me to photograph it. I'm in full agreement with Colin when he says you have more imgaination than the architect.
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A great use of rectangles to create some interest and make us (or me, at least) look more deeply at a subject that we might otherwise seek to avoid.
I did think of waiting around for a figure to go up the stairs, but it was hot and my lunch break was running short.
When I see buildings like this, I wonder if the architect would like what I have done. Were they proud of the building? Would they want someone to approach it as art? Or were they just trying to knock up a quick building for a developer?