Comments on: In progress: Ocaña de España / Manuel Ocaña

By: chris j hello

chris j hello — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:29:23 +0000

sorry, just noticed one of the pictures half way down shows the building opposite (i asume housing?) – i think that is arguement enugh for this rather eccentric piece!

By: chris j hello

chris j hello — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:24:12 +0000

absolutely love it- perhaps it owes more to studio ghibli than the reverend master gaudi?

By: Jet

Jet — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:08:50 +0000

Great.

By: Nicolas Bet

Nicolas Bet — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:46:52 +0000

No hay excusas, ni explicaciones que valgan la pena. Es una basura, y Manuel Ocaña se vendió. El resultado es el mimso que tendríamos si hubiese diseñado el promotor. Es una pena y un retroceso para la profesión en el mundo entero.

There is no excuses, nor explanations that worth. It’s pure rubbish, and Manuel Ocaña sold himself. The result is the same that we’ll have if the developer would be himself the designer. It`s a shame and lot of steps backwards for the practice of architecture worldwide.

By: rypat

rypat — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:50:19 +0000

in case we needed an example of what NOT to do…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:33:17 +0000

Funny indeed… I like the vernacular aspect of the planning, but why has it got to be pastiche to the extremes. It looks like some nepalese monastery set in disneyland. Regarding the use of fake stone, this is only an extreme example of how materials are meant to be used today… Sad but an economic truth for most of us living in the affordable commodity world.

By: claude.mallia

claude.mallia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:18:12 +0000

cummon is this the architecture you are projecting for 2009?!!! for god’s sake, i do know that clients are very demanding, and they do always want more than they can get for their site and their money but this is utter crap! it must have either been designed with the gun muzzle pressing on their forehead or else architects are being forked out of universities like chipmunk nuts! sorry but cannot but be negative.

By: na

na — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:33:15 +0000

nice train set on steroids.
this is not even good enough for disneyland

By: sjcr

sjcr — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:24:00 +0000

the construction process before the exterior finishes looks interesting… the result is a shame.
caveman condo resumes it great! because of the looks, and because of the last century way to synthesize the ideas

By: lafricans

lafricans — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:21:37 +0000

:-) j suis heureux de voir que certains trouve quand même carement moche… il y a surement une chouette idée, celle d’asseoir les logements sur un socle organique, mais le résultat est pas franchement top..

By: ominaeshi

ominaeshi — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:43:21 +0000

OMG, this is UGLY!

By: Hector Mann

Hector Mann — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:12:22 +0000

Manolito, Manolito, esta vez la ironía se te fue de las manos, ¿te has pasado al enemigo?…
Dear Manolo, this time the irony was excesive…,have you just gone over to the enemy?

By: leon

leon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:28:15 +0000

good~

By: Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:20:38 +0000

The crowd’s getting tough!
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http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com

By: fino

fino — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:43:50 +0000

Hm….it just came to me.

Look up “La Pedrera” by Gaudi.

That should explain some things.

By: fino

fino — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:39:48 +0000

RE: Ceno

Antoni Gaudi is a legend now, died in the late twenties, so you would have to Google him for images and historical background.

Oh…and this project is in Spain, and a lot if not all of Gaudi’s work is located in Spain. That should raise any brow when looking at some of his work after looking at “Caveman Condo”

By: Ceno

Ceno — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:47:14 +0000

Any website from Gaudi fino? I would like too see it too, thx

By: critical cow

critical cow — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:06:29 +0000

Theme Parkitecture.

By: fino

fino — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:56:18 +0000

Gaudi already tried this, and he was much more successful. I would say, that this would be an insult to him. There is no kind of logical integration at all, and I assume it would be hard do in the first place if one had to plop modernism on top of something from the set of Jurassic Park. Harsh, but I stand strongly behind it.

that is all.

By: icecream

icecream — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:07:57 +0000

oh
my
god
…
back to the prehistoric caves!