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I'm completed fascinated with Shuhei Endo and his architectural steel structures. Steel is not a material I typically find appealing - it's modern but cold and uninviting. But somehow, with Shuhei's buildings, the steel almost comes alive and interacts with the environment in a way that's interesting and unexpected.
At times, I find that a lot of modern architecture simply falls into three categories that are not always mutually exclusive:
dull mimicry, minimalist zen-holes and monstrosities.
Very little is surprising, and if it is, it is often unpleasant.
In his Bubbletecture below, Shuhei takes a passionless material that's usually associated with all three aforementioned categories, and molds it into something with a pulse. In case you were wondering, it is a visitor centre built in a valley lying between Hiroshima and Osaka. Do I think it's 'pretty'? Not really. But I am enchanted by how it resembles a bulbous worm that is both obtrusive and oddly harmonious with the nature that surrounds it. The rusted and occasionally moss-covered steel Shuhei worked with lends the building a very natural charm.
How would you like to work in this?
{Click on images for larger versions.}
I'm completed fascinated with Shuhei Endo and his architectural steel structures. Steel is not a material I typically find appealing - it's modern but cold and uninviting. But somehow, with Shuhei's buildings, the steel almost comes alive and interacts with the environment in a way that's interesting and unexpected.
At times, I find that a lot of modern architecture simply falls into three categories that are not always mutually exclusive:
dull mimicry, minimalist zen-holes and monstrosities.
Very little is surprising, and if it is, it is often unpleasant.
In his Bubbletecture below, Shuhei takes a passionless material that's usually associated with all three aforementioned categories, and molds it into something with a pulse. In case you were wondering, it is a visitor centre built in a valley lying between Hiroshima and Osaka. Do I think it's 'pretty'? Not really. But I am enchanted by how it resembles a bulbous worm that is both obtrusive and oddly harmonious with the nature that surrounds it. The rusted and occasionally moss-covered steel Shuhei worked with lends the building a very natural charm.
How would you like to work in this?
{Click on images for larger versions.}
