Comments on: VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron

By: p

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:27:46 +0000

vulgar display of power/muestra vulgar de poder

By: Carpo

Carpo — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:11:39 +0000

nivel de A1, hay que trabajar muchachos!

By: zato

zato — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:35:25 +0000

maybe, this is the way to use extraordinary furniture in ordinary houses

By: giorgio righi riva

giorgio righi riva — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:33:03 +0000

FANTASTIC!

By: Mattia Nuzzo

Mattia Nuzzo — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:20:56 +0000

I think this is a pretty incredible project considering the brief. A showroom for the Home Collection? Sure, but let’s take the most common interpretation of the house and explode it out into a jumble of intersecting forms — leading to a number of undoubtedly surprising interior spaces that remain rooted in the most mundane of typologies. I agree with Yorik, it’s the details that are going to make this structure sing. Already I’m drawn to the pinched shape of the main entrance with its sunken stairwell shown in Marcus’ picture of the model. For some reason it seems reminiscent of H&dM’s entrance to their Prada building in Tokyo - one of my all time favorites. Also, does anyone else see the pattern of multiplicity and stacking really taking hold in the most recent of H&dM’s works? This Vitra project seems to share a portion of its DNA with not only the glass ziggurat extension to the Tate, but also the new Parrish Art Museum on Long Island.

By: loke

loke — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:25:33 +0000

Very basic

By: Yorik

Yorik — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:27:47 +0000

I don’t know much what to think either… Probably, as often in H&dM projects, we’ll have to wait for the materials and details to see the idea better. But I think it’s still not this time that someone will do better than Zaha Hadid…

By: bo

bo — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:24:13 +0000

boring.