Hay, IT! Architecture Revival
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@Mik said in Hay, IT! Architecture Revival:
Love the whole idea. Isn't this example spectacular?
That is amazing!!!! Like the article said - "imagine making stone look transparent!"
Some other cool pics there
I've never been able to visit the San Severo Chapel in Naples, but it has the most amazing works of 18th century marble..
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@George-K said in Hay, IT! Architecture Revival:
That page gives me hope. Lovely stuff. It's happening around Europe, in both large and small projects, but unfortunately given the vast amount of brutalism, as well as the hegemony of the modernists, ugliness will dominate the city scape, and only the few interventions of beauty will remind of what an architecture and urbanism made for the human person might have been.
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As I paged through this feed, I thought, "OK, that's all cool. Now do the FBI HQ in DC."
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@George-K I'd be happy to!
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Yup, found it in wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Executive_Office_Building
It was designed by Alfred B. Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Department of Treasury, which had responsibility for federal buildings. Patterned after French Second Empire architecture that clashed sharply with the neoclassical style of the other Federal buildings in the city, it was generally regarded with scorn and disdain. Mullett, the exterior architect who was often criticized in his position, later resigned. Beset by financial difficulties, litigation, and illness, in 1890 he committed suicide. Writer Mark Twain referred to this building as "the ugliest building in America."[6] President Harry S. Truman called it "the greatest monstrosity in America."[7] Historian Henry Adams called it Mullett's “architectural infant asylum.”[8]
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I thought the ugliest was the Old EOB (Executive Office Building)
Didn't the architect kill himself because when it opened the reviews were so bad because it was so ugly.
Do I have the right building?
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Yup, found it in wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Executive_Office_Building
It was designed by Alfred B. Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Department of Treasury, which had responsibility for federal buildings. Patterned after French Second Empire architecture that clashed sharply with the neoclassical style of the other Federal buildings in the city, it was generally regarded with scorn and disdain. Mullett, the exterior architect who was often criticized in his position, later resigned. Beset by financial difficulties, litigation, and illness, in 1890 he committed suicide. Writer Mark Twain referred to this building as "the ugliest building in America."[6] President Harry S. Truman called it "the greatest monstrosity in America."[7] Historian Henry Adams called it Mullett's “architectural infant asylum.”[8]
@Copper said in Hay, IT! Architecture Revival:
Yup, found it in wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Executive_Office_Building
It was designed by Alfred B. Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Department of Treasury, which had responsibility for federal buildings. Patterned after French Second Empire architecture that clashed sharply with the neoclassical style of the other Federal buildings in the city, it was generally regarded with scorn and disdain. Mullett, the exterior architect who was often criticized in his position, later resigned. Beset by financial difficulties, litigation, and illness, in 1890 he committed suicide. Writer Mark Twain referred to this building as "the ugliest building in America."[6] President Harry S. Truman called it "the greatest monstrosity in America."[7] Historian Henry Adams called it Mullett's “architectural infant asylum.”[8]
C 'mon, man! It ain't that ugly...
