How often do you see a house or building in RL that you think should be in SL?
I was looking at pics of houses for inspiration on something to build and came across a couple of pics that I thought looked more at home in SL than RL.
So, this thread is about RL builds that make you think of SL, lets see some pics! I will start off with these two that really seem like they were born in SL, but are actually RL builds.
http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/images/fh_splash_graphic_3h.jpg
http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/past/2001/images/Schindler/3.jpg
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Loki Pico
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05-16-2006 22:56
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PetGirl Bergman
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05-16-2006 23:31
GREAT buildings! WOW...
I show some links to books that i get inspiration from.. I bb with pics later.. http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/3822827738.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/architecture/all/facts/03344.htm http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/architecture/all/facts/03652.htm http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/architecture/all/facts/01656.htm In fact it was SL that again started my love to houses and buildings. /Tina _____________________
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Caliandris Pendragon
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05-16-2006 23:41
My favourite. favourite architect - or building modifier in most cases - of all time:
Hundertwasser http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Magdeburg_Hundertwasserhaus.jpg And built by a newbie, by the looks of things! Other pictures on the main wikipedia page for Hundertwasser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasser I highly recommend looking at the life and philosophy of this man if his architecture and art interest you. He was a wonderfully eccentric and passionate person, who believed that we all have three sets of "clothing": the skin we were born in, the clothes we choose to wear on our bodies, and the houses we live in. He said that they should all express the people we are, and that living in identical houses was bad for the soul. Wonder what he would have made of SL  .Cali _____________________
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05-16-2006 23:47
My favourite. favourite architect - or building modifier in most cases - of all time: Hundertwasser http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Magdeburg_Hundertwasserhaus.jpg And built by a newbie, by the looks of things! Other pictures on the main wikipedia page for Hundertwasser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundertwasser I highly recommend looking at the life and philosophy of this man if his architecture and art interest you. He was a wonderfully eccentric and passionate person, who believed that we all have three sets of "clothing": the skin we were born in, the clothes we choose to wear on our bodies, and the houses we live in. He said that they should all express the people we are, and that living in identical houses was bad for the soul. Wonder what he would have made of SL .Cali Those are really lovely and whimsical, kind of reminding me of Dr. Seuss, but softer and sweeter |
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05-16-2006 23:58
Cool pics! I was not really inspired by the ones I posted, they just seemed like you would see them in SL. I need to look for some cool stuff to post now!
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05-17-2006 00:12
Without a doubt, SUNY Buffalo's Ellicott Complex (or as the locals call it, "Lego Land"
 is an SL/RL crossover gone horribly wrong. It's the Sid 6.7 of buildings.The picture below doesn't really do it justice, so I should probably provide a more acurate verbal description (which isn't exactly easy to do). The best I can come up with to give you some idea of what this place is like is to say imagine someone dropped a million randomly sized physics-enabled cubes from a thousand meters up, let them fall where they may, linked them together in large clumps, and then threw on a bunch of doors and windows. The thing's got more nooks & crannies than an explosion at an English muffin factory, and it's arguably the most bizarre piece of angular engineering since the Fortress of Solitude. Except English muffins and Kryptonian fortresses aren't quite so ugly or menacing. It's perhaps little suprise that Western NY has the highest rate of colon cancer in the US. Everyone gets sick to their stomach's every time they have to look at this thing and after a couple of decades, it takes it's toll. The place also seems to defy all known laws of plane geometry, as it has no beginning and no end. It's the architectural equivilent of a Chinese finger puzzle. Once you're in, there's simply no rational way out. You just have to close your eyes and hope for the best. The more you try to reason your way out, the more hopelessy entangled you become. It's really quite amazing. Unless your name happens to be Theseus and you've got a mighty big ball of string, or else you've got a burning desire to have your picture on the back of a milk carton, do not approach. The walls are lined with the bones of those who starved to death trying to find their escape.  Ironically, it was in class at this very university where I first discovered SL. Coincidence? _____________________
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05-17-2006 00:37
....imagine someone dropped a million randomly sized physics-enabled cubes from a thousand meters up, let them fall where they may, linked them together in large clumps, and then threw on a bunch of doors and windows. Ha, now I'm thinking it'd be fun to try this in a sandbox. With a smaller number of random cubes, though.  _____________________
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05-17-2006 03:10
My favourite. favourite architect - or building modifier in most cases - of all time: Hundertwasser http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Magdeburg_Hundertwasserhaus.jpg I love organic architecture. We are too much in love with the straight line. There was a wonderful Swiss architect (whose name escapes me) who built a few very strange railway stations, and he said he always tried to put up buildings which looked as though they were about to collapse. _____________________
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05-17-2006 03:23
This is a fantastic place - build - In Barcelona - Spain - Europa
La Sagrada Familia http://www.photoguide.to/barcelona/sagradafamilia.html Must be something för a virutos in tourses )**** This is fantastic to!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Casamila.jpg And this - the house far to the right got my hearth... I wa snot allowed to visit it inside but I was standing outside an evening and by the light in the rooms I saw some of the inside.. wow.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Illadeladiscordia.jpg /Tina _____________________
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05-17-2006 03:27
”We are too much in love with the straight line”
Why?.. Cant both exists in SL (and IRL).. if we only have organic or only have straight it will become boring... I love the ones above but build as the ones in my first text.... and IRL i live in a 60is concrete ”getto”... its perfect for living in.. planed well and al my IKEA Billy´s fits so well )/Tina - Love EXAKT built things.. _____________________
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Ferran Brodsky
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05-17-2006 03:37
here is some nice architectural brain food
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05-17-2006 03:40
The Cube Houses in Rotterdam might not belong in SL, but they sure don't belong in RL
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05-17-2006 03:50
I love organic architecture. We are too much in love with the straight line. There was a wonderful Swiss architect (whose name escapes me) who built a few very strange railway stations, and he said he always tried to put up buildings which looked as though they were about to collapse. I'm not sure which swiss architect you're referring to. Maybe its Mendelsohn who did the einstein tower. Eric Mendelsohn - Einstein Tower http://www.suakx.com/study/archimap/architecture/index__389.php Antoni Gaudi - very organic and floppy http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/spain/gaudiindex.html http://www.gaudi2002.bcn.es/english/ Closer to the present: Ushida Finlay partnership - I love their houses. Fairly new architectural firm. http://www.archilab.org/public/2000/catalog/ushida/ushidaen.htm# Santiago Calatrava - he's an architect / engineer, hence the highly structural work. Likes to sketch with lumps of charcoal on textured paper. Just google images the name, and it'll also turn out with many references. http://www.calatrava.com/ These are some I like. Not organic, but more deconstructivist architecture. Mixture of curves and straight lines. Morphosis - Once had a tutor from this architectural practice. Very down to earth people despite their architecture. http://www.morphosis.net/ Eric Owen Moss http://www.ericowenmoss.com/ Frank Gehry - I'm sure most americans know this guy. http://www.arcspace.com/gehry_new/ |
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05-17-2006 03:53
I love organic architecture. We are too much in love with the straight line. There was a wonderful Swiss architect (whose name escapes me) who built a few very strange railway stations, and he said he always tried to put up buildings which looked as though they were about to collapse. You got my gears turning on the Swiss architect but All I can think of is Santiago Calatrava, He has done quite a few notable builds in Switzerland, but he's from Spain... http://www.calatrava.com/ His site was a bit slow for me, but the load time is worth the wait, he has some very creative builds... Now, if only we could have prim limits raised to duplicate something like his work lol _____________________
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05-17-2006 04:55
If they end up building the Fordham Spire here in Chicago, I'll have to buy a unit, I swear to god.
Its really a sexy design, and there's more on the horizon for the city.Such as this imaginative building. I love it, too!! Great links, guys. _____________________
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05-17-2006 06:06
This may be cheating slightly, but these two RL designs for future cities always make me think of Second Life. Since they were speculative ideas never realized in RL, I actually think it only makes them more suited for SL.
Anyway, the first is "la Città Nuova" by futrist Antonio Sant'Elia. The second is Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd Wright. _____________________
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05-17-2006 07:20
When doing an underground magazine in the 80's. I did some renditoins of Miser van der roh's work. I studied up on the Bau haus. If memory servers right, alot of the pre war posters came from that era around the time of art deco. Our own architech frank loyd write I belive studied under the Bau Haus. Back then alot of the poster work was done in shadows and charcoal. Made for some good ilustrations in the magazine.
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05-17-2006 10:21
SL imitating life imitating SL, nice
And LOL marcus, actually I want a little plywood cube to put on my desk that would be cool )_____________________
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05-17-2006 10:34
IRL houses that are builded in SL...(maybe another thread to start?).
Close to a year ago my GF purchased a huge piece of land up in Geneva and around the Victoria waterfall. As she love nature and space.. but she had bigger ideeas.. My GF also planed and did in the Geneva part - build the famous Frank Lloyd Wrights Fallingwater home to us.. plus changed the x & y to fit the SL life. She also let a great landscape architect do the typical under and at side of Fallingwater - waterfall and named it Petfalls. Pic down and to the left. We was later told that the house did not fit some regulation - to huge was one word.. (Picture on top - our house to the right) - many more was told and we a day decided to move in SL. (we now live in a tent ).. /130/cb/107206/1.html The PetFall will probably disappear today the 17th.,, We took down the house piece by piece a couple of weeks ago - and felt that our new life was coming up... But tears was of course dropping down my face,., /Tina _____________________
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05-17-2006 10:55
Chemosphere house by John Lautner
http://www.johnlautner.org/Malin.html Anything by John Lautner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Phillip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, and Walter Gropius (Bauhaus architect). It's kind of interesting that I just took an interior design class, and everytime I saw an interesting structure, I immediately wondered "How could I build that in SL." Haha, I'm an addict. |
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omg, lol...
05-17-2006 11:47
just came across this story... and wow, i've been to a few places in sl that look this exotic!!
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two more examples and a rant
05-17-2006 14:21
Hey all, great thread.
I think another cool inspiration is Archigram, and architectural group from London's swinging 60's. They are especially interesting for their treatment of architecture as an integral part of the urban, technological and social fabric. [http://images.google.fr/images?q=archigram] For organic architecture fans, check out Fredrick Keisler. [http://images.google.fr/images?q=kiesler+frederick]. What I like about this thread is that it shows some of us are trying to learn from designers and architects that tried to innovate and improve our lives... rather than just copying all the junk-space-architecture that proliferates everywhere in RL (and unfortunately a bit too much in SL, but hey, I'm still young and haven't gotten around too much yet). In SL we have the liberty to build a better environment... all we need is some know-how, clear-headed ideas about space and usage and a high prim count. //Kliger Dinkin |
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05-17-2006 15:14
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05-17-2006 15:41
I'm not sure which swiss architect you're referring to. Maybe its Mendelsohn who did the einstein tower. Could be - looks a bit like his stuff. Thanks for all the links - Gaudi is one of my favourites, although I have never seen his stuff in real life. Here is a link of my own; I like these people:- http://www.hubbellandhubbell.com/whoWeAre.htm _____________________
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