domingo, 20 de enero de 2013

Lloyd´s building. Perfection.



The Lloyd's building (also sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd´s of London, and is located at 1, Lime Street, in the City of London, England.
It was designed by architect Richard Rogers and built between 1978 and 1986.

What I really love about this buildings is the way everything is connected when sometimes it does not seem like it is, everything stays connected and does not fall apart. When you see it you feel impressed of how something like that can stand still and be so greatly designed, all of the creativity put into it. You can detect all the innovation and originality in it. I feel like everything is possible when I see it.



viernes, 11 de enero de 2013

Architecture in dancing..

When you hear the words, architecture and dancing, you may think they have nothing in common, but really somehow they actually do. Architecture in auditoriums where the people dance has to be of a certain form to make it a great show for the audience.

As an example I found a great auditorium located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Spain. It was designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava Valls.

The auditorium was inaugurated on 26 September, 2003 with the presence of Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias, and was later visited by former U.S. President Bill Clinton. The building is framed within the tenets of late-modern architecture of the late 20th century.

What I really love about this piece of architecture is that you can really easily see the artistic part of it which makes it even more special. I love to see this type of freedom in the design of it, you can appreciate the details that complete the masterpiece of Calatrava.


viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2012

The Walt Disney Concert Hall

The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. It seats 2,265 people and serves (among other purposes) as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Lillian Disney made an initial gift in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city. The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 24, 2003. Both the architecture by Frank Gehry and the acoustics of the concert hall (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota) were praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
This building is a glorious peace of art, you can see it and you don't think of it as a building but more as an artistic form, I really love the style it uses, you can see that perfection can come from imperfection, that's the message this building gives to me.



domingo, 25 de noviembre de 2012

Beijing National Stadium, 2008


This eye-catching 80,000-seat stadium, designed by the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron with the Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, was the architectural highlight of the 2008 Olympics. It consists of two buildings, one inside the other: a red concrete bowl for seating surrounded by the steel “bird’s nest". It was created to represent that ( a bird's nest ) but I really love how every peace of metal is laced together to form an extraordinary building, to me this stadium means that every person should get together so that we are all united in one great multitude forming something beautiful, to me every metal bar represents someone in the world. This was clearly seen in the olympics in which persons from all over the world gathered to celebrate a great event.



jueves, 15 de noviembre de 2012

Grand Theater, Tianjin, China

The Grand Theater, located in Tianjin, China, occupies the key position in the newly built Culture Park of Tianjin. The circular shape of the roof construction corresponds with the existing Museum of Natural History so that an architectural dialogue of an earth-bound and a “floating” circular volume is created to both ends of the park. Earth and sky represent a fundamental thinking in Chinese philosophy. 
The roof volume of the Grand Theater opens up toward the broad water surface like an open sea shell. Opera hall, concert hall and the small multi-functional hall are exposed to the water surface like pearls inside this shell.
The three venues are conceived as free standing volumes on a stone base. Broad stairways connect the stone base with the raised plaza creating a kind of stage for urban life which overlooks the lake and the Culture Park.
It was designed by Meinhard von Gerkan and Stephan Schütz with Nicolas Pomränke Project leaders: David Schenke, Xu Shan.
I really like this theater  because when you see it, yo can see the greatness of it, because everything that happens inside there is pure art, so from the outside you can also appreciate art and greatness. I´m not that in to theaters really, but when I got to investigate about them, I now love the way they are designed for. 




domingo, 11 de noviembre de 2012

Illustration of architecture

Here I'm showing the design in which the Sydney opera house is based on, you can appreciate the sketch and also another picture of the actual building located in Sydeny, Australia built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon. I love this building because of the outer design, I've never seen it from the inside, but when you see it from the outside you get attracted by it, you feel the greatness of it. What I get from this building is the showing of different sails crossed and this representing different opinions of people, how they can always join together to form a great finale.

domingo, 4 de noviembre de 2012

Art making/ Editing

This drawing was made by me, I've always liked to draw lines in a way that when you see them you can see and appreciate the concept of equality as something ideal. In this drawing you can appreciate the proportional ways added to de drawing. For this drawing I used a pencil an then took a picture of it and edited it with a great program in my cellphone. In here what I express more than anything is the equality needed in a relationship with someone, he can "draw" (give) you something and you always try to return the same or even more... But it could also be counted as abstract art so you can give it your own meaning. Thanks, hope you enjoy it!