Modern Architecture

[Cian O'Connor]

I think it's fashion. Norman Foster has designed some
quite beautiful buildings, which combine modernity
with a lovely sense of organic sinuousness. The new
GLC building in London looks like it will be lovely
when it's finished. There's also a new skyscraper
proposed for Shoreditch (the edge of the City of
London), which looks beautiful in the designs. 

 --- joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> wrote: >


> But I do know 
> about the modernist and pomo (mannerist) buildings
> that have gone up in the 
> U.S. and there's nothing much memorable there. The
> pomo/mannerist style is 
> a little more discursive -- a plaint or reminder of
> the beauty that can no 
> longer be. But the truth is that there's not much of
> grand western 
> architecture that appeals to me. I WAS dazzled by
> the way the enormous 
> stone weight of Versaille seems to simply float on
> the landscape, but 
> that's kind of it. On the whole, renaissance and
> post renaissance 
> architecture seems mostly to be there to proclaim
> the power and status of 
> its builder. I didn't even realize this until I saw
> the Alhambra palace in 
> Grenada. It was the first time that it occurred to
> me that a building could 
> effect infinite sensual pleasure; that it could be
> built to tickle the 
> senses rather than the ego.
> 
> Anyway,
> 
> Joanna B.
>  

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