Comments on: Ilhavo City Library / ARX

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

[...] and Nuno Mateus of ARX PORTUGAL architechtural firm. Check out this stunning building at: http://www.archdaily.com/11278/ilhavo-city-library-arx/ .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; [...]

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.