Comments on: In Progress: Conrad Hotel by MAD

By: Hana Huang

Hana Huang — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:18:11 +0000

@Ign24680 @danielportilla facade now under construction… http://t.co/AQKUhHLV

By: Hamid Moghadam

Hamid Moghadam — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:11:28 +0000

I LIKE THIS SEXY HOTEL

By: dashen

dashen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:56:01 +0000

U r right. but that’s exactly what a client want: cell structure + attractive facade = low cost + necessary advertisement. light, space and materiality as a adorable architectural language are really limited in terms of commercial buildings, especially when the scale is big.

By: bizbiz

bizbiz — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:09:35 +0000

RIGHT

By: shetu

shetu — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:49:09 +0000

Carlos is rite.

By: hZ!

hZ! — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:49:57 +0000

It really is a beautiful façade, though I do wish the X axis had been devoured/transfigured as well. A relentless horizontality grips this building.
I hope this is the beginning of great things to come. May organics invade many more new buildings in such a way, and to a greater degree.

By: yulian bintang

yulian bintang — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:39:32 +0000

Reading: "htl nya In Progress: Conrad Hotel by MAD | ArchDaily" (http://twitthis.com/3bt8i5)

By: Sonic

Sonic — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:12:09 +0000

love it!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:37:09 +0000

Arch Daily should just give up. Architects should just give up. It really doesn’t matter what gets put on here, all that results is a string of insults employing “emptiness, shallow, horrible design, tired, nothing new, ho-hum, looks cool but sucks, doesn’t look cool and sucks”. Is there anything we haven’t seen in architecture yet? Seriously, everyone should get off their ass and make something.

Why is it that we can’t accept ANYTHING that has ANY sort of sensibility beyond casual modernism? Why is something that is austere immediately thrown into the canon of genius? Is it because it’s difficult? Is it because you would have a hard time conceiving it yourself? Like it or not, this is not crap. There is thought here, there is artistry here, and there is finesse here, it just may not be what you care about. That does not mean that there isn’t value. MAD is obviously thinking about something. There is so much difficulty in trying to rectify a balance between our discipline, physical constraints, client, and service to users, why can’t we support one another as a community of different likes/dislikes trying to solve similar problems instead of berating that which we find incongruent with our own taste?

This project offers something. Be objective. Be critical but be productive.

By: Hellyess

Hellyess — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:43:54 +0000

tired of this crap.
I wonder what/who will determine the end of this and the beginning of something that’s actually useful and beautiful…

By: Lasse

Lasse — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:58:41 +0000

Cell structures and so what?

By: Rupesh Jamkhindikar

Rupesh Jamkhindikar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:25:33 +0000

I agree with the context point here…i thought the satellite image is to show some context…its much an attempt to bring back gaudi….probably just a fashion with these new possibilites……

By: ny_arch

ny_arch — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:05:13 +0000

how this skin works contextually? is it just a show-off/play-with-architecture?????

By: Case

Case — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:03:37 +0000

@Carlos – I agree that it’s pretty much just a shell, but I do like the facade itself (apart from the actual architecture). I like how it looks like a sketch that starts out very structured and linear but ends up “melting” into more organic patterns… almost like brain cells under the microscope.

By: Conrad Hotel by MAD @ Dailytonic

Conrad Hotel by MAD @ Dailytonic — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:26:19 +0000

[...] seen @ Archdaily [...]

By: Quy Long

Quy Long — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:15 +0000

nothing but an incomprehensible facade. WHY is that facade?

By: Yikes

Yikes — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:09:39 +0000

oh they totally screwed up this design, i designed the previous version of this facade which has a more Gaudi-like feel instead of this flat straight extrusion pattern. major disappointment!

By: Ralf

Ralf — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:43:48 +0000

If the the design of this building just follow a trend (skin pattern) is a nonsense.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:29:42 +0000

Yeah! ‘Empty’ seems to be the word.

By: darly

darly — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:59:43 +0000

the exterior skin pattern creeps me out. It is devoid of not only conceptual integrity but also visual appeal. I would refuse to lay my eyes on that building ever. Simply irritating.