Hold up there, not so fast. You did read our featured story today about
Oscar Niemeyer, the man who built a city out of curves, and probably you watched the extended remix of the interview on
VBS—and perhaps you even read the shitty reason why Santiago Fernandez-Stelley, who conducted the interview,
did so in his swimsuit. While that’s all well and good, probably you’d like to see what these buildings look like, right?
Assouline is releasing a massive book of just that, and by massive we mean big enough to build a house out of itself--the thing is like three-by-five...feet. It costs something more than $500, which, even though the photos are beautiful enough to make those of us who are as concerned with architecture as we are with Arsenio Hall’s cricket bat collection actually consider wanting it, is insane unless you’re some kind of shah. So. Go ahead and click down-theresly for a preview of some of the images.
oh man! these look like something out of a science fiction movie! trippy buildings
Posted by: aliennn | 18/05/2009 at 22:54
that last picture is gorgeous. it looks like the clouds are sitting in the bowl on top of the building. I wonder if he designed it with that effect in mind
Posted by: brahbrah | 18/05/2009 at 22:55
WOW. when he said he wanted people to stare at his buildings in awe, he wasn't kidding and he sure got the job done. that church looks amazing
Posted by: bacon bits | 18/05/2009 at 22:57
at first i thougth that the shapes of the buildings were anything but organic and "natural" but wow, i know for a fact that he has a reason for every single curve and shape that he chooses to use. when i saw the photo of the church from the exterior, i honestly wasn't sure what to think. after seeing the interior, i was definitely wowed and took a minute to stare in awe.
Posted by: toodles | 18/05/2009 at 22:59
with all those glass shingles, it makes it seem like god is peering right through that ceiling
Posted by: zero | 18/05/2009 at 23:01
If Louis Kahn was snatched off our world, brought to a planet light years away, left prisoner in a sweat box which flashed random alien landscapes 24/7 (which his captors kicked from time to time just to fuck with him) and was brought back here about 3 decades off from when he was grabbed he might have come close to what this man is doing. Nice work.
Posted by: Stitch Up | 18/05/2009 at 23:11
Brazilian architecture has nothing on the Watermelon Woman's ass and a bowl of feijoada.
Posted by: discojerk | 19/05/2009 at 05:04
$500 isn't that much for an huge ass architectural book. have you seen how much books cost from taschen? like the book of olga. that shit is expensive.
Posted by: anonymous | 19/05/2009 at 16:16
They should make a building modeled after watermelon woman's ass.
Posted by: Bradford | 19/05/2009 at 20:51