DESIGN REALISATION by Sara Petty
Architecture
I really enjoy the industrial look of this building and the use of geometric shapes in the glass paneling for the dome.
You can see the glass paneling easier in this picture, and that it has more detail on a second look.The patterning on the flooris also very eye catching.
I really like that they incorporated a water feature in the building. Water is so organic yet its surroundings in this place are more industrial.
I really enjoy the industrial look of this building and the use of geometric shapes in the glass paneling for the dome.
The Glass Pavilion -Bruno Taut
"The Glass Pavilion, built in 1914 by Bruno Taut, was a prismatic glass dome structure at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition. The structure was a brightly colored landmark at the exhibition, and was constructed using concrete and glass.The concrete structure had inlaid colored glass plates on the facade that acted as mirrors."
The round entrance way compared to the rectangular typical building makes this interesting.
The supports almost look like stalagmites coming down from a cavern which give it that conflicting natural to industrial feel again.
It seems more simplistic and ordinary when you look at it as a whole.
The round entrance way compared to the rectangular typical building makes this interesting.
Hanz Poelzig
"His first designs display the influence of teachers who held allegiance to eclecticism and to late classicism; his early design for a gothic style townhouse won him the Schinkel Prize in 1896. His next designs were influenced by regional traditions, art nouveau and by American office building design."
This entire structure is just so eye catching and fascinating for me.
I love the use of spiral stairs but in a non conventional style that looks more modern for its time.
This is again just fascinating with the curves built into the building making it more organic than the other two.
This entire structure is just so eye catching and fascinating for me.
Erich Mendelsohn
"German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas."