Comments on: Højblokka_PULS / MAPT + DARK http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/ Architecture News: The latest buildings, projects and competitions every day. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:19:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mehtdad Vahidian http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/#comment-27282 Mehtdad Vahidian Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:39:37 +0000 http://www.archdaily.com/?p=19748#comment-27282 brilliant brilliant

]]> By: Paul http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/#comment-25889 Paul Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:56:58 +0000 http://www.archdaily.com/?p=19748#comment-25889 I agree that it's bad for companies to leave their lights on for no reason, but I think this thread is getting pretty hot and bothered over a bunch of architectural renderings that have a specific rhetorical purpose and should not be literally construed. I suspect the architects' intention was to highlight their project with respect to the surrounding context-- and as someone mentioned above, the glowing building is a well-known convention of architectural renderings. I'm not saying this group doesn't have a point, but that the building's environmental performance should be judged by more pertinent criteria. This sounds like grandstanding to me, and it doesn't help the cause. I agree that it’s bad for companies to leave their lights on for no reason, but I think this thread is getting pretty hot and bothered over a bunch of architectural renderings that have a specific rhetorical purpose and should not be literally construed. I suspect the architects’ intention was to highlight their project with respect to the surrounding context– and as someone mentioned above, the glowing building is a well-known convention of architectural renderings. I’m not saying this group doesn’t have a point, but that the building’s environmental performance should be judged by more pertinent criteria. This sounds like grandstanding to me, and it doesn’t help the cause.

]]> By: Genelle Smith http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/#comment-86666 Genelle Smith Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:31:30 +0000 http://www.archdaily.com/?p=19748#comment-86666 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Højblokka_PULS / MAPT + DARK | Arch Daily http://bit.ly/LU8A3</span></span> Højblokka_PULS / MAPT + DARK | Arch Daily http://bit.ly/LU8A3

]]> By: Mr. Cheap http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/#comment-25786 Mr. Cheap Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:27:07 +0000 http://www.archdaily.com/?p=19748#comment-25786 This project, like EVERY project from the office DARK, has 100% performance in terms of it's users needs, and "obvious" needs in the city like pedestrian flows. This again is then linked into a "performing" commercial layer. Theese projects are the ultimate type of architecture, if you belive that market logic can formulate what the city should be for it's inhabitants. Nowhere in this process has Oslo been included in the re-working of this very very unattractive area. Overall, the proposal by www.mad.no for this area is much more in-line with what at least I concive as the public opinion on this project : - redesign/generate the adjecant streets - signifying the central station as the major "downtown" in oslo WITHOUT filling the entire footprint of the site - create a new bus terminal to open up new possibilities on the exsisting plot for the bus terminal. DARK/MAPT only maximizes the potential for the client, while MAD much more creates potentials for the city of Oslo, and is sensitive to the context. This project, like EVERY project from the office DARK, has 100% performance in terms of it’s users needs, and “obvious” needs in the city like pedestrian flows. This again is then linked into a “performing” commercial layer. Theese projects are the ultimate type of architecture, if you belive that market logic can formulate what the city should be for it’s inhabitants. Nowhere in this process has Oslo been included in the re-working of this very very unattractive area.

Overall, the proposal by http://www.mad.no for this area is much more in-line with what at least I concive as the public opinion on this project :
- redesign/generate the adjecant streets
- signifying the central station as the major “downtown” in oslo WITHOUT filling the entire footprint of the site
- create a new bus terminal to open up new possibilities on the exsisting plot for the bus terminal.

DARK/MAPT only maximizes the potential for the client, while MAD much more creates potentials for the city of Oslo, and is sensitive to the context.

]]> By: Ralph Kent http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/#comment-25782 Ralph Kent Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:56:23 +0000 http://www.archdaily.com/?p=19748#comment-25782 I imagine the practise of leaving the lights on until the floor has been cleaned might fall out of favour soon, as the recent Earth Hour has hopefully started a trend. I think some of the G20 protesters were specifically smashing windows of corporations that persistently offend by leaving their offices 'glowing' all night long. This is not the 70s, peak oil is behind us, and its about time architects were a bit more intelligent with their renderings. Unless this 40,908 square metres of 24 hour call centres? I imagine the practise of leaving the lights on until the floor has been cleaned might fall out of favour soon, as the recent Earth Hour has hopefully started a trend. I think some of the G20 protesters were specifically smashing windows of corporations that persistently offend by leaving their offices ‘glowing’ all night long. This is not the 70s, peak oil is behind us, and its about time architects were a bit more intelligent with their renderings. Unless this 40,908 square metres of 24 hour call centres?

]]> By: Bernie Madoff http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/#comment-25778 Bernie Madoff Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:32:26 +0000 http://www.archdaily.com/?p=19748#comment-25778 Why do these buildings always glow in the dark? This one even glows at daylight. I hope architects will eventually understand that radioactive buildings will never be sustainable. Why do these buildings always glow in the dark? This one even glows at daylight. I hope architects will eventually understand that radioactive buildings will never be sustainable.

]]> By: M http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/#comment-25774 M Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:26:27 +0000 http://www.archdaily.com/?p=19748#comment-25774 i hope one day someone realizes that buildings like this one will never be sustainable in a country like norway....even with triple-glazing, the heatloss is huge... but well....time will tell...i guess this people are really taking in consideration Climate change, so in some 20 years oslo may have a tropical climate. i hope one day someone realizes that buildings like this one will never be sustainable in a country like norway….even with triple-glazing, the heatloss is huge… but well….time will tell…i guess this people are really taking in consideration Climate change, so in some 20 years oslo may have a tropical climate.

]]> By: Lucas Gray http://www.archdaily.com/19748/h%c3%b8jblokka_puls-mapt-dark/#comment-25773 Lucas Gray Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:03:31 +0000 http://www.archdaily.com/?p=19748#comment-25773 It looks like an office tower. It looks like an office tower.

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