Now I'm not usually one for the modern architecture movement. You know, the buildings that are constructed to, "stimulate the eye, accentuate the edges, allow one to feel the space, and blah blah blah...". It's all just a bit to plain, bland and minimalist for me. I like character, style and the merging of old and new. If you can make something, oh say a Victorian style house, and merge it near seamlessly with modern technology, environmentalism, efficiency and space utilization (both inside and out), that is a movement I can get behind. But I'm not one for buildings built just on an artistic expression of form. I understand the ideas and theories behind them, I just don't support the actual full throttle movement of trying to force progressivism with ideas that will eventually (about 30 years) look just tacky. Remember the "Everything is New" movement of the 1960's here in the good ol' US of A? Yeah, they knocked down a lot of great structures that had style, class and history, just to build big, ugly pastel-gray boxes. Yuck. I just don't care to repeat that past mistake. Miving forward means learning how to look back, and bring it all together.
However, this specific idea from the people of China is one I think works well. It brings together a harmony of nature and human living. It would be quite a marvel to see. Although, I'd still like to see some more character brought into the structure. Perhaps some Chinese symbols or statues or something? Hrm.
Anyhow, check it out; WATERWORLD
However, this specific idea from the people of China is one I think works well. It brings together a harmony of nature and human living. It would be quite a marvel to see. Although, I'd still like to see some more character brought into the structure. Perhaps some Chinese symbols or statues or something? Hrm.
Anyhow, check it out; WATERWORLD
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