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NO COMENTS!!
TRASH ARCHITECTUREEE!!
that’s a comment.
INDEED
a true waste of money
it’s really waste the money!
Meh.. I like it :P
Just a classical example of postmodern damage.
like most post modern architecture
一座由“黑色三角钢琴、透明小提琴”的现代建筑物和一座以白墙青瓦为特征的楼房，将从图纸上“走进”到淮南市山南新区，这就是日前相继破土动工的山南新区规划展示馆和项目投资公司办公楼。
以“黑色钢琴与提琴相互衬托”为主体的展示馆，坐落在新区指挥部现办公楼南侧，设计体现了革新思路和浓郁的艺术氛围，建成后与周边自然环境相呼应，成为新区标志性的建筑。与之比邻的项目投资公司办公楼则在中国传统建筑风格中洋溢着现代气息，白墙、青瓦的简洁古雅大方和外形明快、大面积采光、气派将实用和富丽融合，它追求变化与统一的协调，自然环境与人文精神的一体。
安徽 淮南
yeah!…you tell’em!
That hurts, dude. Watch your language!!! I can’t believe you said that! Sorry for the architect though.
This from a translation website. I am still clueless.
By “black triangle piano, transparent violin” the modern building and take the white wall grey tile as the characteristic building, “will enter” from the blueprint to the Huai Nan Shannan newly developed area, this will be the Shannan newly developed area which one after another began the project on the other day plans the exhibition hall and the project investment company office building.
“Serve as contrast mutually take the black piano and the violin” as the main body exhibition hall, is situated south side the newly developed area headquarters present office building, the design has manifested the innovation mentality and the rich artistic atmosphere, after completes echoes with the peripheral natural environment, becomes the newly developed area symbolic construction.Will be brimming with the modern breath with it neighbor project investment company office building in the Chinese tradition construction style, Bai Qiang, the grey tile succinct classically elegant natural and the contour sprightly, the big area natural lighting, the style is practical and the splendid fusion, it will pursue the coordination which will change and unifies, natural environment and a humanities spirit body.
Anhui Huai Nan
i agree!!! hahaha
what u talking here, can be used in any projects. The speech u r talking is exactly like the government speech. & it meant nothing to the project.
A shot hair guys on the 50cc bikes, open and wild landscapes, red soil…
this muct be in China, somewhere in the ‘provincial’ town, the building should be used pbviously for music related program like conservatorium?
Good thingof China is that it is far from complicated, meaning there should be nothing complex theory behind this building… No post modernism.
Shannan New District Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Huainan, China.
not surprise, these days many chinese clients do hava rather ‘high class’ taste by being ‘western’, they reeeeally love piano & violin. this is taking ‘objects’ to another level…
haha, great!
why not bring a little meaningless fun back to architecture..
Couldn’t agree more…
That is Billy Joel’s house in the New Jersey suburbs
WHAT A SHAME!!!!
Damn!
Reminds me Robert Venturi works!
Piano shaped building (Huainan, China)
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This building is in the city of Huai Nan (淮南), An Hui (安徽) Province, China. It is built in 2007 as a city planning showroom and office for a new district. I could not find out who designed it, but the contractor is from Dalian (大连), another Chinese city full of flamboyant new buildings.
Among architects in China, this building gets very low marks for its ultra-realism, even though ironically it embodies all five points of architecture of Le Corbusier. However, the general public seems to love it. It has become a popular backdrop for wedding photos and is dubbed “the most romantic building in China”.
The Chinese do not have monopoly on buildings that mimic real world objects. Check out the basket building of Longaberger in Newark, Ohio http://www.longaberger.com/homeOfficeFacts.aspx. Between these two, I definitely like the Piano building more.
Great comment
垃圾=trash
I wish I was a doctor so I could subscribe you all some happy pills … you goddam HATERS! Get off your high horses and have some fun with projects that are not off the rack…and btw, I think it is very professionally executed. period.
i totally agree. stop hating, start appreciating. i myself would probably never think of designing something like this, it is absolutely against my beliefs of what architecture is about. i still DO APPRECIATE the difference and variety in architecture, and i do appreciate this building as well for being very specific on its own terms.
It’s in China and it’s Postmodern. This doesn’t mean we have to trash it. Because I can think of many buildings in the Western world, that are recent, that could deserve the same treatment.
It’s hyperealistic, so what. Think of the challenge to design the details, in stead of bitchin’.
you have to agree it´s funny … besides … it´s very well done and bach or bethoven would´ve love to live there hahaha
Wow. Kitch just doesn’t quite say it. Shall we have all shoe shops shaped like shoes too?
Or basket factories shaped like baskets?
Renzo?? hehe…..
oh come on, all you fighters for a decent architecture with a well accepted code of formal expressions, lean back, think about this whole bubble of hot air….and have a good laugh!
…then go back to work and save the world.
naughty, kitsch, cheesy…but thats the way it should be built Liberace`s house…
well, from my point of view, its very funny and extraordinary.
people should be openminded to every kind of architecture!
remember the “secession” in vienna: “der zeit ihre kunst, der kunst ihre freiheit!” – “To the Age its Art – To Art its Freedom” – think about it!
I liked!
sorry was a joke.rsrs
I think it’s just 3d
They should used that money for paved streets or give back to the people.
http://images.google.bg/images?hl=bg&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=violin+piano+building+&btnG=%D0%A2%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5&aq=f&oq=&start=0 THE ANSWER TO EVERY QUESTION……………………….G…O…O…G…L…E
I feel good!
Ooooh yé, I feel good …
responding cmyk: im agree about “der zeit ihre kunst, der kunst ihre freiheit!” but come on fellows!! do you really think you could compare this picturesque “thing” with the Sezession House.
Freedom doesn´t mean being ridiculous and uncreative….
you guys, this is not post-modern. It’s just a 50:1 scale cello and a piano
LOL! LOL! LOL!
Suralysty architectural to scale for shock opening attracted attention and very ridiculous
Here is an article about it…
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/18/content_6747802.htm
and another picture of the building…
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-09/18/xinsrc_15209041819392352829511.jpg
Odd…
what? it’s a violin? so they are not even in scale with each other lol
haha why all the hard comments? obviously it’s not the best design ever, but it is fun and well executed, give it some love.
this must be the best example of a duck I have ever seen.
I agree! Learning from Las Vegas!
What’s interesting is it is totally unselfconscious.
the death of imagination: could you imagine to do something else inside a piano but playing a piano?
So a building decked out with a neck and a terrace lid gets hated on as if it was the bastard love child of Ghery and Libeskind? Take those two decorative elements away and you have something that could fit in the Dutch landscape.
All I know is that Homer Simpson would do a backflip if he saw this building.
Huainan,Anhui,China
entertaining. china nowadays.
try not to judge by the eye of an architect, everything exists for a reason.
ya know normally i’d think this is just kitschy and horrible (and it is kitschy) but something about it is actually rather pleasing, i can’t quite figure out why. it might be the materiality and the curves but i dunno, need to think about this…
Piano shaped building (Huainan, China)
why would someone at Archdaily even bother to publish this? Its a waist of time and space! This is a quality site, at least I thought so!
WOW, this building absolutely has a really powerful massage… that the architect is a very very very simple man.
it’s funny
architecture with fun…I like the crystal violin structure!remind me the works of Michael graves with dolphin, Mickey..!!I suggest a Hardrock hotel here!
that’s what comes into my mind at first (Hardrock Cafe…)
plus i agree that the violin staircase is clean and simple
I think people are just jealous
LOL
piano nobile?
You guys are soo harsh… Well, I like to see the good in things… It is unusual and eye-catching. Maybe the purpose was exactly that, and nothing more… Maybe because of the general lack of signs in China, we could all just say: “Hey, lets meet under the piano….
it’s so funny! “Lets meet under the piano” haha . i can’t stop laugh…haha
S H I T
dont archi pp know how to appreciate stuff ?
it’s ironic i like this structure.
it’s elegant and tacky at the same time. haha!
It’s funny, but where the rest of managment plan. They could add overscaled chair from ikea.
Or it looks like or they didn’t have enough money to pave the road to that “building”?… But still I like chinese… they always make me laugh… including and MAD architects
that`s soooooooooooooo… amazing, but i don`t know how in that!?!?!
respct designer
This building is designed by Hefei university of industry, a very famous architecture university in china
what makes this any trashier than gehrys work?
i hate gehry but at least this is honest :P
le corbusier meets claes oldenburg aesthetics…
the violin part looks beautifully detailed, and the roof terrace underneath the piano fall board looks as if it could be a great space to inhabit. i wonder what the acoustics are like.
making all these commments on the facade of the building is pretty short sighted formalism…
the building is so ugly its beautiful………we as architects should have more fun…..who ever designed this had a wicket sense of humour and fun.
http://www.oneinchpunch.net/2007/10/22/piano-and-violin-building-in-china/
It’s in 中國安徽.
It Rocks !
:)
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its may be trash but as long there are people enjoy it especially the owner it is okay. thats architects are all about, making people enjoy them selves even though it is trash.
by the way it is fun looking at it :))
im not a fan, but this bldg
reminds me of frank gehry’s giant binoculars:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielgone/4175188959/
and we have to admit, the contractors are good! haha
and man, i love their guts; both the client n the architect!
who knows.. maybe the architect of this piano will someday becomes another starchitects like gehry :)
Architecture is not only about the looks, and we all know that. What kind of social considerations were taken here? the quality of space and how it belongs in its context, both physical and sociological? isn’t there a thin line between being creative and missing the point of architecture and the social responsibility that comes with it?
This is an incredible desplay of Science and architectural prowes!! Hihgly technological and creative!!! Long live architectural design!!!
不要解释了，看看外国人的评论
不是说垃圾（TRASH）就是说浪费（a true waste of money）丑陋（duck）
作为国内不入流的建筑学学生，这让我情何以堪啊！
9:01 AM Jan 31st
RT @feltins: ha ha hā RTU APF pirmkursnieka sapnis http://bit.ly/dandvX
12:36 PM Jan 31st
@Pandawatch http://www.archdaily.com/48034/unusual-architecture/
1:50 PM Jan 31st
Ja atmet "liepratēja" augstprātību, tad šis līdz asarām aizkustina: RT @feltins ha ha hā RTU APF pirmkursnieka sapnis http://bit.ly/dandvX
5:36 PM Jan 31st
@Pandawatch http://www.archdaily.com/48034/unusual-architecture/
10:50 PM Jan 31st
http://tinyurl.com/ydake5z wtf
12:57 AM Feb 1st
分享 http://tinyurl.com/y8bd8bt (Unusual Architecture) http://plurk.com/p/3lej3r
3:46 AM Feb 1st
直喩だ、直喩建築。ひさびさに建築で衝撃。中国らしいです。http://bit.ly/bIWdxn
7:14 AM Feb 1st
RT @trashness: Unusual Architecture http://ow.ly/127Sz
5:48 AM Feb 2nd
e dopo il cesso di stark… un'altro edificio tremendo
http://www.archdaily.com/48034/unusual-architecture/
11:00 AM Feb 2nd
Neįprasta architektūra: muzikantų namai. http://bit.ly/9OCpdX
9:08 AM Feb 19th
http://www.archdaily.com/48034/unusual-architecture/ to je taj fazon
3:36 PM Mar 24th
http://j.mp/dYjFDB ih wow.. :O