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Guess the Architecture for 12/4/2018

Posted December 04, 2018 2:00 PM by MaggieMc

Can you guess this week's building?

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12/04/2018 4:02 PM

Looks like a funky bus stop...

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12/05/2018 10:53 PM

Couldn't be - no graffiti!!

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12/05/2018 2:28 AM

oh no.. Obviously it's one of the Kodak moments.

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12/05/2018 8:13 AM

Santa Clause sheds entrance hall!

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12/05/2018 10:01 AM

An ancient transporter???

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12/05/2018 6:07 PM

Damn! You beat me to it.

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12/05/2018 10:17 AM

this should be interesting. Is this inside or outside the box thinking?

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12/06/2018 1:36 AM

Well!!! MaggieMc, not hazarding my guess quite yet...

this latest "Guess the Architecture" attacks my interpenetrated and cubist mind, not unlike meeting Paolo Soleri for the very first time in Arizona as a kid! I still cherish the Christmas card he hand drew and colored for me, before he embarked upon building Arcosanti up the road a piece.

Now mind you MaggieMc... I will get to the bottom quotient of this jigsaw rolled into a puzzle and wrapped in a conundrum!
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12/06/2018 5:36 AM

I have a small observation which may help give others perspective: I think we are viewing a larger building through a smaller "tunnel"; the tree, if that's what it is, is visible on both sides, at the end of the left hand wall of the tunnel.

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12/06/2018 11:34 AM

Anybody else think that this is getting ridiculous?
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12/06/2018 5:14 PM

We haven't had many total failures.

Did you really need to download that drawing?

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12/06/2018 1:36 PM

the circles though? But still Love the Hollo Deck

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12/06/2018 10:54 PM

The exit on a Saturday night?

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/food-reviews/shining-light-on-tasty-fare/

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12/07/2018 12:07 PM

Preliminary sketchup for Macbeth ?

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12/08/2018 11:37 PM

I had this dream that everything was melting, just like that famous Dali painting.

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12/10/2018 2:04 PM

Last week’s structure was ‘Zero’ by Snøhetta. Presented at Milan Design Week in 2011, the installation experimented with materiality. According to designboom, the concept for the marble cube originated at a marble quarry, specifically where a tunnel opened into a larger room.

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12/10/2018 6:38 PM

Oh...

Yeah...

That was gonna be my guess, but I thought it was too obvious.

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12/10/2018 10:05 PM

Well... it was a very tough exercise,

but a very good example of interpenetration in design concepts. Keep them coming,

as I find this particular venue very interesting and certainly not a 'fail'.
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12/11/2018 3:52 AM

Can I Remove a Wall or Could it be Load-Bearing?

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