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Condomínio do Alto do Parque, Lisbon. Designed by Opera Projects - Design Matters Architects. Built in 2005.
The Western Auto Building, also known as the Coca-Cola Building or the Candler Building features a tri-parti facade consisting of base, middle, and top sections. Three-story high limestone pilasters visually define the base which "supports" 8 stories of red-brick-clad punched windows and a limestone-clad "attic" level, topped by a deeply projecting, dentaled cornice. The whole is crowned by Western Auto Supply Company's multi-story lighted sign. The building, an example of the commercial style (Chicago School) was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. #urban #architecture #archilovers #kansascity #sign #historicarchitecture #nationalregister #chicagoschool #designmatters
View from the east into the residual space formed by the exterior walls and soffits of the lower level, ground and second floors. The void is punctuated by a cast-in-place pedestrian bridge leading to a stair to the lower level and access to the surrounding grounds. The bridge may be the initial segment of a pedestrian connection to the yet unbuilt Graduate Center shown on the 1966 campus master plan.
A repeating geometric pattern can be seen in this view upward and diagonally across the tile-cladding.
Pedestrian entrance from campus on southwest side. The glazed passage leads to the auditorium. The strip windows on the floors above are set off by the projecting stair tower.
Early morning view of the east facade of the dormitory wing as seen from the (southeast) parking lot situated above the small valley, on the periphery of the campus. The facade is set back on the second and third floors break down the scale of the four-story wing thereby avoiding monolithic appearance.
Early morning sun illuminates tile-clad stair and elevator elements, and curtain wall forming entrance court and north facade.
I snuck into the Frieze building in order to take a picture of my old classroom where I took Communications during my junior year. The reason why I wanted to take a picture of it was because it typified the squalor that was the Frieze building. However, after 5 years, seems like things have shaped up. The walls have been redone. The floor tiles seem to be there for the most part. There is no hole in the wall connecting the adjoining classroom. The windows aren't broken. It actually looks like a serviceable classroom. This is a shame, since the plan is to raze the building and replace it with a dormitory.
I never thought about it in college when I was going there, but I've become nostalgic for the Frieze bldg. After so many hours of Korean and Comm studies and a litany of other miscellaneous classes, it was one of the buildings that I missed.
MLB however I will never miss. I hope that place falls in on itself.
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General view from the east. The building is a previously existing carriage house around which dining/seminar rooms, toilet facilities and an entry hall were added. The former carriage house, topped by a mansard roof, was divided into a kitchen and meeting rooms.
Early morning view of the dormitory wing from the north. From this vantage point a pleasing balance of horizontal and vertical elements, reminiscent of the work of Alvar Aalto, can be seen through the grand trees. The vocabulary is one of strip windows and glazed brick belt courses together with alternating stacked panels of curved glass block and glazed brick. Here, the building is raised above the ground on pylons to allow people to walk uninterrupted across the campus.
General view from the southwest toward the entryway, topped by a clerestory. The addition, covered by a pitched standing seam zinc roof, is clearly delineated from the original carriage house. The building has fallen into disrepair.
Early morning shadows of the surrounding trees are cast on the east facade of the dormitory wing. The second and third floor facades are set back create visual interest and avoid a long, uninterrupted, shear wall fronting the grassy hillside.
Seen in the office: John Foster gets a package from someone at Landor. Its a poster for a live Design Matters interview he gave for Debbie and How Magazine during the HOW Annual judging in Cincinnati.
Curved glass block and glazed brick panels form the ends of stair towers serving the dormitory wing.
Autumn foliage is set ablaze by late afternoon sun, and shimmers through translucent glass forming donor wall within lobby. Cast-in-place concrete pedestrian bridge thrusts into wooded area beyond, and forms a striking contrast with the deep red ceramic tile facing, polished stainless steel railings, and glass and metal window walls.