…some beautiful photos of some beautiful buildings…
I like flicking through flickr. I also like flicking through photo sites like 1000 snaps and Picasa. Flickr is best, but really any will do. I just love photos.
Facebook is a waste of time as far as photos go, and even though most people use social networking, photography always is second place to the person taking the photos. Social networking is also a competitive industry. I mean its only time before Microsoft, Myspace and the other big guns want to reclaim market share, and what happens to your photos then? You’ll have to transfer them to yet another place, if they are even worth keeping. As far as storing them locally (by this I mean on your harddrive), well this is a passing fad. Who wants to keep your treasured memories on such a volatile piece of machinery like the computer?
So there is a place for photo sites, and I believe they offer more longevity to your memories than any other place both in the virtual or the physical realm. So with this, I’ll linke to some beautiful photos of some beautiful buildings from none other than flickr. The giant photo resource of the world wide web.
[Picture sourced from threecee via flickr.com]
[section sourced from arcspace.com, photography by Nic Lehoux]
[photo sourced from arcspace.com, photography by Nic Lehoux]
I was thinking of writing a critique on the above building. It is by the firm Morphosis if you don’t recognise it. Instead, I’ll link to the arcspace bio of the project, which I tend to agree with. Parts of the project begin to appear excessive. Folds in materials for the sake of making folds. In my opinion though the massing, intention behind the facade treatment and the proportion are spot on.
Below is a photo of the de Young Museum by Herzog and de Meuron. Again in San Francisco, a beautiful though slightly excessive example of facade… contrasted against the beautiful formal exercise which is the Guggenheim New York by FLW.
[Picture sourced from threecee via flickr.com]
[Picture sourced from threecee via flickr.com]
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