domingo, agosto 27, 2017

PAYCHECK

John Woo, 2003



Waterfall Building

1540 West 2nd Avenue

By Arthur Erickson with Nick Milkovich Architects

Completed 1998
A later and lesser-known Erickson project, the Waterfall Building near Granville Island
is a beautiful mixed-use residential project. The building consists of concrete 
and glass live/work units arranged around a bright courtyard and sky-lit gallery. 
An opening along West 2nd street provides views of the gallery behind a veil of water 
and invites those wondering by to enter the central courtyard.

sábado, agosto 19, 2017

SHIVERS

David Cronenberg, 1975










NUNS' ISLAND APARTMENTS
Montreal, Canada, 1966-69

The three apartment buildings are situated on an island in the St. Lawrence River a short distance from the centre of Montreal. The development of the island only began in the 1960s and Mies was able to position his slab-like apartment buildings close to the water's edge in a park-like landscape. Like Highfield House in Baltimore, the buildings are made of concrete and here too the exposed loadbearing structural frame steps back slightly at intervals towards the top of the building. This, however, was the first time that Mies incorporated balconies into high-rise buildings. As whit the service station nearby, he cooperated with local architecture offices.* David Cronenberg later used the buildings as the setting for his film Shivers.
* The two facing buildings were built together with Edgar Tornay and the building that stands to one side with Philip D. Bobrow.

MIES VAN DER ROHE - THE BUILT WORK
Carsten Krohn
pag. 228



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