anyone a fan of modern architecture ?

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I can appreciate both new and old, sometimes I watch grand designs and there are some fantastic designs of both new and old existing buildings. Hoff house look mint!
 
Yup, love anything that has been heavily thought of, from around 1920 onward. Anything really Bauhaus, Art Deco, seriously 60's, not so keen on 70's to 80's, but it picked up again in the 90's and onward. Plenty of complete gash as well though, don't know how some of it gets passed planning. Sometimes wonder if anyone thinks to stand back, take a look and have the balls to say 'that looks pants mate, pull it back down' :D

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stulid said:
I can appreciate both new and old, sometimes I watch grand designs and there are some fantastic designs of both new and old existing buildings. Hoff house look mint!
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Same. I like new and old.
Love watching grand designs.

Dont like the wooden clad house in OP, it's too square. Love the others tho.
 
They look nice, but the interiors don't look like they are a proper home, just bland and sterile.
 
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They look nice, but the interiors don't look like they are a proper home, just bland and sterile.
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True but I know mine after a few mins would look a LOT more lived it and homely (Think messy). Still love the design though.... you could make it your own after the initial 'bland' design.
 
So in the future, let me get this straight, you wnt to own a modern home that was designed say 20 years ago in 2010, and not a modern home of the future?

nah im just ****ing with you...

they look hideous
 
yes, but then like everything. Some of it is good and some is bad. Those box buildings are Ok. Much better modern self sufficient designs out there. After all it is more about building materials and technology, not the looks.

I would love to build a Beco or sipcrete construction house. Lovely dense concrete with polystyrene. Excellent noise and heat properties, as well as being cheap and exceptionally fast to build. I do not understand our fascination with brick, especially with our house prices and labour costs.

I think the prefab buildings after the war destroyed con create as a building material for houses :(.
 
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Can't say i'm a fan of any of the stuff dwellings in the OP, but each to there own.

I am a big fan of sustainable homes and sustainable design and it is obviously the way forward and you can create some amazing buildings.

Then you look at some of the stuff Calatrava, Renzo Piano and Zumthor produce, stunning :p
 
I'm a fan of those houses externally, but I agree that the interiors do look a little sterile. Le Corbusier and the Brutalist movement are like Marmite, I find the structures visionary in concept but very bleak and daunting in actuality. Boston City Hall is a good example, a huge, fortress like structure- intimidating and forbidding.

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You gotta remember that architects and photographers have a habit of taking photos without any sense of life in them;) People and usual clutter are removed leaving blank spaces behind.

Not overly keen on the examples posted. They're just modernist houses based on an 80 year old principal. I doubt they're particularly sustainable and they're not solving any social/environmental problems that we are faced with today. Architects tend to be a bit egotistical and are more interested in producing designs to better themselves, not the community.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me go weak at the knees...

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Bedzed, south London. Sustainable community, with onsite combined heat/power plant (ok it doesn't work most of the time!) car share, and house design that minimises energy use. This is pretty pioneering for the UK. Bill Dunster architects.



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Accordia, Cambridge. Completely redefines ideas of privacy/public space in a development, with public parks, squares, walkways set alongside private residences whilst still achieving a pretty high density. Takes balls for a developer to do that rather than design some pastiche gated community and go all berkely homes on cambridges ass. Fielden Clegg Bradley studios.
 
Really like the exterior of new buildings but the interior looks a bit plain and as if no one even uses the stuff!
 
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