Architecture Preview #1

The Basket Building was built by The Longaberger Company in 1997. The building is located in Newark, Ohio, and is open for the public to visit. The building cost $30 million and two years to make. Seeing as this building is the Longaberger Company Headquarters (a comapny dedicated to baskets and other), it seems ideal to make the building shaped like a basket.

I picked this building because, usually when you see interesting buildings you expect to see fun and weird designs. With the Basket Building, it's fun to see something a simple basket being the shape of a building.

Krywy Domek (Crooked House) in Sopot, Poland was built in 2004 by Szotynscy & Zaleski. The building is open to the public. There isn't much on the price it took to build it. The two architects were inspired by fairytale illustrations and drawing by Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg.

I really liked this building because of how fun it seems. It also kinda messes with your perception of reality.

 

Nautilus House was built by Javier Senosiain in 2007, and is located near Mexico City. It's a public building and cost $218,000 to build, and was made to challenge normal buildings and make something interesting. I was particularly interested by this building because it really does look like a nautilus and the colored panes in the front are really fun.

Stone House was built from 1972 and finished two years later in 1974. It's located in Guimaraes, Portugal. There isn't a name for the architect, nor is there a established cost for the house. The building is local and has attracted many tourist throughout the years. The building was built as an architectural monument (what for, it doesn't say).

I picked this building because of how uncommon it is. Usually when people think about architecture, they think funky, new, modern buildings. Most people don't understand that all buildings are architecture, just that some are fancier than others. I also really like how natural this building is. It's in the middle of nowhere, there's not electricity, and the fountain of the build is four huge boulder. That's pretty darn cool!

 

 

Habitat 67, located in Quebec, Canada, was designed by Moshe Safdie. The building was built in 1967 and is a residential building, where one can live. It also took $22, 195, 920 to build. It was built for a living space, and for "Expo 67."

I really liked this building because it's intricate and makes you really have to think and try and figure out how it works.