Gehry's Copper Phase. Much like Picasso's blue period it was tentative at best but required to progress as an artist. Google has pretty large glass these days...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Frank Gehry, Edgemar Center for the Arts, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
The ornamental nature of this building was a solid boding for his later work although prefabbed concrete and steel I beams don't quite have the same visual impact as molded stainless steel and titanium...
Saturday, 8 March 2014
State Electricity Commission of Victoria, giant electrical pole/tower, Docklands, Melbourne, Australia
Sometimes that which was not designed to be aesthetically pleasing can just turn out that way in the purest form following function kind of way. Case in point some hulking scraps of steel otherwise mistaken for electrical poles / towers presumably designed and construced by the SEC back in the day.
Sanoyas Rides Corporation in conjunction with ARUP, Melbourne Star Observation Wheel, Melbourne, Australia.
The Melbourne Star Observation Wheel [link] was built by Sanoyas Rides Corperation and designed by a consortium of structural engineering firms, led by ARUP [link] and located in the docklands precinct of Melbourne. The Melbourne Star has a long and interesting history, even before it opened for business (2009), then closed for business (2009), then opened again (2013), then temporary halted operation (2013) then unhalted operation 15 minutes later (2013), then closed again (2014) and now reopened (2014). It looked for a while there, like it was heading in the same direction as the Springfield monorail, only a larger than life donut didn't save it.
Irrespective of all this, it sure does look pretty lit up at night.
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