Architechture Quiz

[bluenix]

Name the building, its architect and its location.

 

http://www.ezshots.com/members/blueman/images/blueman-87.jpg

[Spida]

Just a guess but is it in Sydney Australia? I think maybe the Olympic stadium or something like that.. I may be way off though but my thoughts are you usually see it from a different angle..

[+ deej]

My first thought was Sydney Opera House.

[trilingual]

It's a model, so it may not be an existing building. However, it looks like the work of Santiago Calatrava, who did the expansion of the Milwaukee museum and the Science City (?) in Valencia (Spain), among other major recent projects.

[bluenix]

DING, DING, DING! WE HAVE A WINNER

 

>It's a model, so it may not be an existing building.

>However, it looks like the work of Santiago Calatrava, who did

>the expansion of the Milwaukee museum and the Science City (?)

>in Valencia (Spain), among other major recent projects.

 

It's Calatrava's addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum. (Which, BTW, has surprisingly extensive post-1960 collections -- better than anything Chicago boasts.)

 

Wondering why you say it's a model? That's the building itself.

[Luv2play]

RE: DING, DING, DING! WE HAVE A WINNER

 

It looks like a sailboat with the sails collapsing. Any pics of the interior?

[Rick Munroe]

RE: DING, DING, DING! WE HAVE A WINNER

 

>It's Calatrava's addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum. (Which,

>BTW, has surprisingly extensive post-1960 collections --

>better than anything Chicago boasts.)

 

That sounds great & it's a beautiful building but I would only visit Milwaukee to see Schotz's Brewery. I want to find that glove that Laverne left on the beer bottle. :+

[trilingual]

RE: DING, DING, DING! WE HAVE A WINNER

 

I could be wrong, but the photo looks like a computer-generated architectural model (the cars and people look like toys, not like real cars/people). I didn't recognize the Milwaukee museum from the photo. I've seen other picutres of the new expansion, but taken from a different angle (probably from the other side of the building) where it looked quite different.

 

Calatrava uses a lot of nautical-looking shapes (particularly sail-shaped ones) and bridge elements (like the suspension cables here). Makes sense in Milwaukee, where the museum is located on the edge of Lake Michigan. In general, his buildings seem to be very well-thought out and elegant.

[bluenix]

RE: DING, DING, DING! WE HAVE A WINNER

 

Well, who knows these days. I'd agree the people/cars looks posed, but what throws me is the trees are in the right place -- there's a restaurant over there.

 

Here's a pic with the brise soleil stowed, and one at night. I do love this building.

 

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/wisconsin/milwaukee/calatrava/distantaboveclosed.jpg

 

http://www.popma.com/m/Santiago_Calatrava/08_Calatrava_Milwaukee_Art_Museum.jpg

[bluenix]

RE: DING, DING, DING! WE HAVE A WINNER

 

This was the only decent one I could find:

 

http://www2.bc.edu/~rusch/cala3.jpg

[Guest Fin Fang Foom]

It looked like an airport terminal to me.

 

I know, I know, it's up against water but so is one runway at Laguardia.

 

Terminally yours,

 

FFF

[CT Dick]

It is really beautiful. It does look like a futuristic cruise ship whose brakes failed.

 

It also reminds me of the new Charles River Bridge in Boston's Big Dig:http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1957/images/bridge.jpg

 

Dick

[Guest Les]

Thanks Blue!:7

What a great building. It always surprises me when the boondocks outdo the major metropolitan areas.

Mr. Foom of course is referring to Saarinen's 1962 TWA terminal that must of provided some inspiration for the Milwaukee building. Don't you think?:

http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/twa/twaext1.jpg

 

http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/twa/twaint1.jpg

 

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/saartwa/halfdet.jpg

 

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/flyian/terminal/terleg.jpg

 

Some links:

http://www.lightningfield.com/extra/0103twa/

 

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/TWA_at_New_York.html

[Spida]

And ain't that a nice 13 billion dollar bridge :-)

 

Oh I am sorry I think it is up to 14 billion now!

[Spida]

Okay that is what I was trying to say. I was thinking it was an angle you don't usually see.

[milkman]

> Mr. Foom of course is referring to Saarinen's 1962 TWA

>terminal

 

TWA? What's that?

[KY_TOP]

Have you tried the website: http://www.skyscrapers.com

 

Great site if you like architecture.

[swallows22]

Foom, you are a Canuck. Isn't it that Vancouver thing. Certainly, not the Opera House. Cheers!