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By: Biblioteca Municipal de Ílhavo / ARX « memória fora da cabeça

Biblioteca Municipal de Ílhavo / ARX « memória fora da cabeça — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:34:45 +0000

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By: AD Round Up: ARX | Building Station

AD Round Up: ARX | Building Station — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:41:28 +0000

[...] Ilhavo City Library Ílhavo City Library is located in the remains of the Manor Visconde de Almeida, a noble house from the 17th-18th century, later transformed and demolished. From the original building only the main façade, oriented southeast, and the chapel, both in ruins, were left. There was no trace from the carriage porch which completed the building on the southwestern end (read more…) [...]

By: AD Round Up: Libraries Part I

AD Round Up: Libraries Part I — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:21:28 +0000

[...] Ilhavo City Library Constructed by ARX PORTUGAL, the building is located on the periphery of the town of Ilhavo in Portugal, an area with little urban expansion, still fairly inarticulated and problematic. We chose not only to design an object, the library, but to intervene in the clarification and consolidation of urban fragments and volumes with no apparent overall coherence (read more…) [...]

By: ornamentandcrime

ornamentandcrime — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:42:03 +0000

Oh um … I’m a guy.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:59:04 +0000

If it is you in the Less is more T-shirt, why not. Definitely if you are TheLoveShop. Thanks for the RedBubble link….

By: ornament and crime

ornament and crime — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:02:38 +0000

Kim,

Will you marry me ?

By: Inspiration from the rubble | Artistic Things

Inspiration from the rubble | Artistic Things — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:04:53 +0000

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By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:04:51 +0000

I think you are totally right Mr.Ornament and Crime, Koolhaas plays on the inversion of value, an old rhetorical trick, very effective intellectually. I for my part don’t necessarily agree with all he says, but do as well enjoy being challenged.

I think it would be interesting to be critical on the crazy amount of coffee table minimalist architecture around at the moment.

Zumtor, Siza, and Sejima are brillant because they tried to get outside from this very commercial niche, by creating innovative construction system (Vals Composite masonry and expansion joints,Siza and his use of different coating on same walls, Sejima and her very advanced curtain wall system..etc…).

Debating about this kind of issue is always more interesting than just trolling each others.

By: ornament and crime

ornament and crime — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:29:19 +0000

I always enjoy Mr Koolhaas. He inverts your logic and then makes you feel stupid for ever thinking the way you did.

I’d happily be burdened with liberal bourgeois guilt if I could live in a place that resembled this library.

Now, where’s my Che Guevara shirt got to ?

By: roadkill

roadkill — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:39:18 +0000

fuckoff to dezeen and take your pretentious comments with you

By: Ilvaho City Library | Banksie’s Musings

Ilvaho City Library | Banksie’s Musings — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:17:17 +0000

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By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:49:24 +0000

Roadkill you are so old fashion. You are so cute.

By: roadkill

roadkill — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:46:52 +0000

so long as you are not getting brainwashed by the diarrhoea that comes out of kim’s mouth you will be just fine

By: DI ARCHITECT

DI ARCHITECT — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:43:21 +0000

One of these guys is my techar in college. hehe. Keep on going !

By: roadkill

roadkill — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:22:06 +0000

my my… get your handbag, we’ll take this outside. My bourgeois grandpapa once told me: ” Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

i guess this proves the point… you can keep the prize

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:15:21 +0000

Answer to roadkill:
Yes I have seen many OMA projects.

Obviously you don’t get it, minimal has become the supreme ” narcotic dependence on consumerism overkill”.

You are definitely a liberal bourgeois full of guilt.

By: roadkill

roadkill — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:09:13 +0000

gee… have you guys seen a Koolhas project in the flesh… darn the only thing minimal is care with detail. i guess you can argue any day for the topical consumption bullshit he goes on about but the truth of the mater is that these come from very different schools of thought: one careful and considerate the other plagued by a narcotic dependence on consumerism overkill.

By: jsl

jsl — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:55:24 +0000

rypat:
Why don’t you give up your membership in the Kim Admiration Club, and state something relevant yourself? Surely you have something to say about a project as thoughtful as this one.

By: Ilhavo City, Portugal Library - ARX Architects | ...ambushU.com...

Ilhavo City, Portugal Library - ARX Architects | ...ambushU.com... — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:24:51 +0000

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By: rypat

rypat — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:56:48 +0000

Kim, thank you for that extremely relevant excerpt.
Someone needed to say something…