Comments on: ORDOS 100 #36: Preston Scott Cohen

By: Marta Krivosikova

Marta Krivosikova — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:01:22 +0000

ORDOS 100 #36: Preston Scott Cohen #architecture http://t.co/jq1bNZW @archdaily

By: ecoshandor

ecoshandor — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:09:24 +0000

f’ing horrible. i looks like a small office tower is being flushed and i’m sure the inhabitants will feel that way. i think it should be relegated to outer mongolia.

By: hh

hh — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:15:33 +0000

I love this project. It is a good strategy in north China, hiding the main part underground. The skim tower is also an excellent approach to be implicitly special among ordos 100 houses.

By: mil

mil — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:20:39 +0000

More houses like shops, less shops like shops…….?

By: bothands

bothands — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:09:47 +0000

Lucas: yeah curtains! -straight curtains on tilted windows.
That’s so brilliant I wonder if PSC even thought of that.

By: Lucas Gray

Lucas Gray — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:08:06 +0000

This isn’t as bad as some of the other Ordos houses. I kind of like some of the geometry. The renderings are a bit cold but they are renderings not the real building. Put some people in there and some art on the walls and furniture and curtains and everything and it will warm up.

By: bentply

bentply — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:21:14 +0000

http://sorcerer.design.harvard.edu/gsdlectures/f2008/ORDOS.mov

The link above is a video lecture at Harvard GSD about 9 of the Ordos Buildings including this project.

By: Nom_de_Guerre

Nom_de_Guerre — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:13:18 +0000

@no-one

Plot was JDS/BIG and yes it is gross that I can name a zillion architecture firms that make the same gimmicky built bling for the same status-seeking authoritarian regimes.

It is not illegal to do so but, as you’ve mentioned, this situation pretty much sums up the “gross” panorama of the architecture that gets more praise nowadays.

By: cowboy?

cowboy? — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:24:19 +0000

Are cowboys doing architecture? I guess they ride cows. There are 100 houses in ordos. better check the ordos website instead of doing clever!

By: silo

silo — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:22:38 +0000

A puplic house in Ordos? It’s just an ugly made tower..

By: greg

greg — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:19:46 +0000

That house has an expression of a congressbuilding or a “art gallery” but deffently not like a house….there was going something wrong with the scale!

By: bratt

bratt — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:17:45 +0000

what is there the concept????? There’s no concept, it’s just again doing something. Totally aseptic renders – no warm ambiance at all! :-(

By: Punjabi

Punjabi — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:45:34 +0000

no no no no..this is perfect..

By: CP

CP — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:26:18 +0000

I’m actually really disappointed by PSC on this project. Compared to Torus, it’s just geometrically so much less compelling. The Dutch influence and dumbing down of his complex surface manipulations are just so… mundane.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:07:46 +0000

nice project, one of my ordos favs!…but the railing on that stair could use some love.

By: cowboy

cowboy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:40:34 +0000

…How many Ordos projects are there? I’d like to finally see a good one at some point. The other day I was talking to an actual Ordos architect, regarding the generally bad critical reception they’ve garnered, and he mentioned he thought it was mostly due to envy. Well, I would’ve definitely liked to have designed a house there [who knows, maybe I would’ve sucked too], but honestly, I can only think of three or four projects there that have seemed interesting; most of the ones posted so far have been rather sophomoric formal exercises or derivative sculptural experiments… I would’ve loved to have designed the Kursaal in San Sebastián, rather than Moneo, but I can still accept the fact that his result is simply extraordinary. My two cents.

By: some one

some one — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:00:26 +0000

maybe they all have the same aesthetic b/c BIG and JDS used to be PLOT?!?!

By: no one

no one — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:49:37 +0000

cohen has been around for a long time. this is just his style, not a BIG, JDS, etc. rip off. if anything, the fact that you can name three firms that have almost the exact same aesthetic is gross.

By: Nom_de_Guerre

Nom_de_Guerre — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:03:21 +0000

PLOT/BIG/JDS rip-off.

By: Efedz

Efedz — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:31:57 +0000

am i masoquist??? i really enjoy seeing these ordos projects… :S

this project would be nice if it was a department building.. being a house the scale does not look accurate, I bet the architect realized about it when (while doing the render) he had to scale the tree on the roof down to 1 and a half mt high or so.