FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY

Chynna Andrea Martin

THEOAR 2
AR108
1. Walt Disney Concert Hall
Architect : Frank Gehry
The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by the architect Frank Gehry, opened in 2003
after many years of gestation.
The history of the building began in 1987 when Lillian Walt Disney, widow of
businessman donates $ 50 million to start building a philharmonic hall. The idea was to
create a reference point for music, art and architecture, which position the city of Los
Angeles in the cultural level.
The proposed Gehry was chosen after an international competition in which they were
submitted over 70 proposals. The architect imposed its characteristic style, which can be
seen in the rest of his works. While the construction of this building is later, the design
was done before the Guggenheim Bilbao.
Walt Disney Concert Hall is now the permanent headquarters of the Los Angeles PPhilharmonic.
Concept:
The design represents the style of their creator, architect Frank Gehry, could be
considered a work of art in itself. The extravagance of its forms seems to defy any rules
of harmony and symmetry. The forms are external inspired by a boat with sails drenched.
The building is essentially a shell which consists of a series of interconnected volumes,
some form of orthogonal coated stone and other forms of organic and surfaces covered
with a corrugated metal skin of steel. As a bridge between the different volumes are used
glazed surfaces. The centerpiece of the interior of the building was designed to represent
the hull of a boat. The idea of the architect was to design a room with an evocative
sculptural forms of music, achieving an intimate connection between the orchestra and
audience. The building also fulfills an important role in urban areas.
Design Philosophy:
Life is chaotic, dangerous, and surprising. Buildings should reflect that.

2. Lipstick building
Architect: Philip Johnson

- At three levels the Lipstick Building's wall is set back in response to Manhattan's zoning
regulation, which requires the building to recede from the street within its spatial
envelope, to increase the availability of light at street level. The result is a form that looks
as though it could retract telescopically. The shape, which is unusual in comparison to
surrounding buildings, uses less space at the base than a regular skyscraper of
quadrilateral footprint would use. This provides more room for the heavy pedestrian
traffic along Third Avenue.
At the base, the building stands on columns which act as an entrance for a vast postmodern hall. They are two stories high and separate the street from the nine-meter (30 ft)
high lobby. Because the elevators and emergency staircases are located to the rear of the
building, this area appears hollow.
The exterior of the building is a continuous wall of red enameled Imperial granite and
steel. The ribbon windows are surrounded by gray frames. In between floors is a thin red
band which recalls the red color of lipstick. The curvature of the building allows light to
reflect off the surface at different places.
Concept:
The building receives its name from its shape and color, which resemble a tube of
lipstick. Johnson has reportedly claimed that the oval shape and surrounding colonnade is
reminiscent of Italian baroque architecture - though this is unlikely to be the first
observation of a casual visitor.
Design philosophy:
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains,
cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson

3. TWA FLIGHT CENTER

Architect: Eero Saarinen

The TWA Flight Center or Trans World Flight Center, opened in 1962 as the original
terminal designed by Eero Saarinen for Trans World Airlines at New York City's John F.
Kennedy International Airport. Although portions of the original complex have been
demolished, the Saarinen-designed head house has been renovated and is partially
encircled by a replacement terminal building, which was completed in 2008. Together,
the old and new buildings comprise JetBlue Airways' JFK operations have been known
collectively since 2008 as Terminal 5 or simply T5.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates JFK Airport, had once
intended the TWA Flight Center as a ceremonial entrance to the replacement terminal and
has since announced plans to convert the original head house into a hotel, to open in
2018. The building stands empty as of 2015.
Both the interior and the exterior were declared a New York City Landmark in 1994. In
2005, the terminal was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Concept:
"All the curves, all the spaces and elements right down to the shape of the signs, display
boards, railings and check-in desks were to be of a matching nature. The large panels of
glass beneath the concrete are also supported with steel, and have a contemporary
purple-tint. These glass walls are tilted towards the exterior at an angle as they reach the
ceiling, as if intended for viewers to imagine looking out from a plane to the earth below.
These windows also highlight the purpose of the structure, providing views of departing
and arriving jets.
Design philosophy:
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance mans lifeon earth and to fulfill
his belief in the nobility of his existence

4. Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania

Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd

Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of
Pittsburgh.[4] The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run
section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of
the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for the family of
Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann's department store.
Time cited it after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job"; it is listed among
Smithsonian' s Life List of 28 places "to visit before you die." It was designated a
National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of
Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture" and in
2007, it was ranked 29th on the list of America's Favorite Architecture according to the
AIA.\
Concept:
The house was meant to compliment its site while still competing with the drama of the
falls and their endless sounds of crashing water. The power of the falls is always felt, not
visually but through sound, as the breaking water could constantly be heard throughout
the entire house. The beauty of these spaces is found in their extensions towards nature,
done with long cantilevered terraces. Shooting out at a series of right angles, the terraces
add an element of sculpture to the houses aside from their function. The house took on "a
definite masonry form" that related to the site, and for the terraces they decided on a
reinforced-concrete structure
Design Philosophy
The architect must be a prophet a prophet in the true sense of the term if he cant
see at least ten years ahead dont call him an architect.

5. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art,

designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque
Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on October 18, 1997, by former King Juan
Carlos I of Spain. Built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of
Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, it is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by
Spanish and international artists.One of the most admired works of contemporary
architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural
culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and
the general public were all completely united about something."
Design concept:
The design of the building follows the style of Frank Gehry. Inspired by the shapes and
textures of a fish, it can be considered a sculpture, a work of art in itself. The forms do
not have any reason nor are governed by any geometric law. The museum is essentially a
shell that evokes the past industrial life and port of Bilbao. It consists of a series of
interconnected volumes, some formed of orthogonal coated stone and others from a
titanium skeleton covered by an organic skin. The connection between volumes is created
by the glass skin. The museum is integrated into the city both by it height and the
materials used. Being below the benchmark of the city, it does not surpass the rest of the
buildings. The limestone, of a sandy tone, was selected specially for this aim. Seen from
the river, the form resembles a boat, but seen from above it resembles a flower.
Design Philosophy:
The brief is a clarity of purpose