Comments on: Providence Chapel by Jonathan Tuckey Design

By: fly

fly — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:19:27 +0000

The rendering is fine - it gives a raw impression of the material qualities of the design and that is all thats required.
Painstaking renderings often throttle the spontanaity out of a drawing and demonstrate nothing more than obsessiveness.

By: ind

ind — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:29:27 +0000

I like the way zeh is so critical of the render. . . . .What an officionado of ‘real’ projects!
It is perhaps symptomatic of our age that someone can express such definitive opinions based on renders. . . .

By: jakb

jakb — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:22:16 +0000

To aut: A though itself can not be (good, bad) architecture. It is only a sketch or a project; compare projects of buildings and final real buildings - the main idea stay, mostly, But everything changes (materials, technologies, matter, colors etc.). See Branly Museum in Paris!

Projects are always raw (and this project above is extremly raw!), they are interesting only when you visit or see real “house”. Project itself is nothing. If you do not work on it. Sorry.

Design magazines are full of this raw projects - they are nice, wonderful, boring etc. But they are not dangerous, they do not confront us with a architecture.

It is only a beginning of architecture.

By: phatphatty

phatphatty — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:15:38 +0000

This is not virtual architecture. It says constructions to be completed in 2008. Virtual architecture would have to consist of something that was never meant to be built. I think UN studio did a virtual guggenheim museum. I may have the wrong architect.

By: jed

jed — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:03:05 +0000

while i don’t agree with the first poster i have to say that i don’t think this project seems particularly worthy of attention over many other drawing board projects. it seems quite nicely conceptualised, on one hand, and yet fairly unremarkable on another. it’s the sort of work a lot of people are doing now and it’s hard to say whether it is a good or a bad example of a current style until it’s actually built: with a project like this god is in the details and the build quality and we can’t get any feel of those yet.

By: Zeh

Zeh — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:34:41 +0000

Really really bad render…. Scary bad… badly applied materials and textures… a few forgotten fillets or mesh smooths on the way…

And the project itself isn´t great either…

By: Nuno Morais

Nuno Morais — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:32:38 +0000

Hey jakb
You´re 100% correct… show me things that I can walk or stay in, smell and thouch…
Architecture is a living thing and not a virtual one

By: aut

aut — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:05:32 +0000

architecture starts in the mind of the architect - a long time before any rendering is made and in my opinion doesn´t need to be build to be architecture… a thought itself can be good architecture already.
that´s my point of view.

ps: although this project is nothing special to me.

By: jakb

jakb — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:44:04 +0000

Go to hell with the virtual architecture which not exists!

It is zahahadid-pandemic!

It is like to speak about books which are not written yet!

It is “egal” if it is nice or not - it is only a project, not architecture!

Uf, I am sorry…