Comments on: Tulou Housing Guangzhou / URBANUS Architects by Iwan Baan

By: OOXX

OOXX — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:50:18 +0000

a strong spirie appear and go up from the center of the round.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:30 +0000

the most fastinating fact about this building is that it takes its’ begining in chinese traditional architecture. And what european great blury stuff is based on?! Mies or Le Corb?
Yeah, it might look like a prison, but is it bad if nearby runs huge highway with noise pollution? don’t you think you will feel yourself safetier inside of such a small and warm community than in the whatever residential open-planed and fully-glazed european development with absoliutely no sence of place?
Like it a lot.

By: sullka

sullka — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:51:10 +0000

Mr. Cheap I haven’t changed my mind ;P

I still think it’s a circular prison, yep…looks “cool”, but stills a prison.

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By: belly

belly — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:14:33 +0000

urbanus is changing~good job!

By: imagine

imagine — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:54:53 +0000

how amazing the buiding and the case study. Chinese modern architecture is getting better and better!

By: Hale H

Hale H — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:51:10 +0000

there is a deeper layer of social issues within this typology that westerners could hardly feel and understand~
and the meaning to represent it in China’s nowaday urban society

By: Tarek sakkal

Tarek sakkal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:53:39 +0000

By: JuanLuisBurke

JuanLuisBurke — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:38:07 +0000

Well, low-income housing is a tricky thing. I mean, I look at the pictures and think to myself that I would not like to live there myself. But the real question here is, are the people moving into this building improving their quality of life or not?

It’s extremely easy to criticize low-income housing, as if poverty was a sin and an attack on good taste, but few of us have any idea of the budget restrictions on these kind of projects.
Once again, I think they did a decent job here.

By: ROSY

ROSY — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:37:28 +0000

i think this one is really great~