From yesterday’s lattice works it is only a small step to half-timbered houses. Geometric shapes abound! Geometric Square #27
Tag: architecture
Looking Back and Looking to the Future
There was yellow in architecture in the past. And then there will be James T. Kirk who will go where no one has gone before and discover plants, trees, flowers, and fruit. Värikollaasit with this base colour:
Tra le la le la le la triangle
The Main Triangle in Frankfurt. An office building opened in 2008 it is situated next to the river Main.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Architecture
Ten Years in the Making
The central building of Leuphana, the university in Lüneburg, was finally inaugurated in 2017. The plans are from Daniel Libeskind, an American architect.
Monochrome Madness: Architecture in Monochrome
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Godless and Immoral
“The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The architect and artist Hundertwasser was a well known adversary of the straight line, and hence the geometrical grid. The photos are of the Hundertwasser House in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt.
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That’s the Style
This is a typical free-standing house in the Hessian part of the Odenwald. The ground floor on the outside is a plainly painted. The walls of the first floor and up are covered with wooden shingles, sometimes in natural brown wood colour, but often painted in pastel colours. In the middle of the roof is a large gable, decorated with wooden cut outs. The windows have a contrasting border.
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Sparkasse Heppenheim
I’ve been driving past this building for years but I was always busy and/or rushed. Last week I was on my bike, had time and a camera. It’s the mutual savings institute’s building in a provincial town. I always wondered about the prominent stock exchange imagery. The bear and the bull are the main reason I stopped to take pictures (check out today’s Cosmic Photo Challenge about public art for a closer look) but the windows are remarkable as well.
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In the Meadows
Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian artist and architect who had a very distinctive and easily recognisable style. One of the houses he designed is in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt, and it’s called “In the Meadows”. Although he stated that straight lines are “godless and immoral” many of the windows are straight, they certainly are here. Anything else would be too expensive I think.
More information about Friedensreich (which, btw, means “rich in peace”) Hundertwasser can be found here (now with the proper link).
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