You can really find inspiration for architectural designs anywhere. For example doesn't this spider web look like a bicycle wheel, or a Tent, or perhaps a massive building or wheel. Both of which we have.
The elegant minimalism of the cable net structure of the Dome represents the highly efficient use of materials. In engineering terms, it has many similarities to a spider's web. Like the orb web, of a common garden Spider, the dome has long lines of radials spanning the distance from centre to perimeter.
This is a side shot from the picture above. I love the way it seams to reach up into the sky and over your head.
SHUHEI ENDO
ROOF-TECTURE
HYOGO PREFECTURE, JAPAN
This building comprises an office and a three-floor tempopary storage area for builking materials. It is located at the corner of a busy intersection. A curved metal wall, merging with the roof, reduces the sense of oppression from the corner and uses the limited space as effectively as possible. the atim was to break away from the usual idea of an architecture form by structure, towards a new concept of an architecture in which each Building forms itself.
In ground plan, the building is C-shaped. The office is glazed on its south-eastern face, overlooking a tree in the centre of the area. one the second floor is a small, closed conference room. The expansive storage space is on three floors to the west of the building, with high exterior eaves to facilitate the delivery of materials. the stairs are positioned at different points on each floor.
A wooden loading shaft goes through two floors, which are made of a light-permeable expanded metal to enhance strength, sound, natural light and ventilation, and to give a feeling of fluid clarity. Entering through a rectangular skylight on the roof and via long windows in the wall, belts of light permeate the first floor through the second and third. This gives the three-floor space the appearance of a one- floor room.
The exterior wall is covered with the same thin metal plate of silver and black, except for the front, which is of Japanese cedar.
Douglas Cardinal has designed a museum unlike any found here in the western world. His inspiration comes from Baroque Traditions. In creating his designs the most useful tool he has he says, "I rely on the Computer,... It offers the ideal opportunity to produce elliptical and curved surfaces and to take continually changing lighting conditions into account in designing a building."
Architects, Pei, Safdie, and Cardinal have brought ideas from the visionary architecture of the Glaserne Kette to fruition in prestigious public buildings. Ottawa is the only city in the world where its two main alternatives crystalline form and organic sculpture come together with the neoclassicism of the buildings on Parliament Hill to produce a grandiose architectural triangle evocative of the cultural tensions of a young nation torn between the Old and the New World, between European and Native American traditions.
Fun Finds.
I love these two images for their wackey and amazing color combinations.
These are some chairs that I thought were very interesting when I was looking around a antiques warehouse. I really liked the shapes and designs on these chairs. The colours remind me of the beach and the Sea.
