Slog - Comments on Water World http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world What Steven Spielberg will miss this August: What should we do at the sight of such a building? Laugh a little or laugh a lot? How can we take it seriously? Water as a leading motive for a structure? You must be kidding me. You must be kids. A grownup does not play such childish games with architecture.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:52:09 -0800 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:02:19 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe How is this boyish? Explain yourself.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955859 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955859 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:09:08 -0800 Comment by Sandy Animal cells as a motive for structure?

]]> Sandy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955860 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955860 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:09:58 -0800 Comment by beardo Charles, buddy ... you are obviously brilliant, but terribly, terribly annoying.

]]> beardo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955876 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955876 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:15:04 -0800 Comment by cmaceachen not "water as a leading motive for a structure", but use. It does house a pool afterall. It's a duck. And an exploration of a rather unique structural system. A rather elegant one at that.

]]> cmaceachen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955885 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:19:17 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I love this! This is a very cool building - especially since it's basically just a box.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955892 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955892 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:22:04 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Oh, okay. Just change the whole damn sentence. Whatevs.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955898 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955898 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:24:57 -0800 Comment by obamatron It looks like the Chinese pirated one of Microsoft's Vista wallpapers, the image of the all the rocks. I actually like that wallpaper and it is currently the backdrop for my desktop.

]]> obamatron http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955950 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:42:59 -0800 Comment by infrequent what you see as childish, i see as imaginative. certainly imagination has a place in pushing new ideas in architecture?

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955951 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955951 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:43:08 -0800 Comment by charles mudede mr poe, five words: Who Lived in A Shoe.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955953 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955953 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:43:15 -0800 Comment by Tdub For a building that houses a pool, I'd say it's fitting. It's not one of those sweeping, epic monuments that the Olympics have been known for generating (and bankrupting once, if ever, finished: see Montreal), but it's an interesting piece of both design and engineering.

Designers' info

]]> Tdub http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955966 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955966 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:49:52 -0800 Comment by infrequent @7 ha! that's good.

@9 okay, i see what you are getting at. i certainly wouldn't take a shoe seriously. i guess i just don't view this as that silly. the death-star hotel? i'd agree to the childishness of that.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955969 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:50:56 -0800 Comment by Yutang What should we do with your specious questions, Chuck? Laugh a little or laugh a lot? Yo, Dan, it's really past time to get rid of this transparent in-house troll.

]]> Yutang http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955974 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955974 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:52:02 -0800 Comment by infrequent @7 ha! that's good.

@9 okay, i see what you are getting at. i certainly wouldn't take a shoe seriously. i guess i just don't view this as that silly. the death-star hotel? i'd agree to the childishness of that.

so why is this building a shoe? that is your opinion, and it is one of those things that probably cannot be explained. probably similar to why i don't fully like the seattle library.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955977 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:53:21 -0800 Comment by Brian I don't see the problem with this building Charles, also, why can't we get a little information in the post, so we don't have to follow neverending hyperlinks through the tubes?

]]> Brian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955978 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955978 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:53:21 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Are you calling me an old woman?!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955980 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c955980 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:53:45 -0800 Comment by infrequent sorry for the double-post!

@9 i want to add that your response @9 was brilliant. much like the original post, you have an opinion you feel is so obvious that it need not be dissected any further. the shoe response was brilliant. unfortunately, when i see the pool, i don't see a shoe. i don't think one can explain it any further, though. it's like arguing if someone is beautiful or not.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956010 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956010 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:06:10 -0800 Comment by -B- Charles, obviously you only post to piss people off instead of bring up good debate about Architecture.
Jen Graves posts "Now Hanging" which presents art to go see but no comment on if she thinks it is good or not because what one person likes another will hate.
When you write

What should we do at the sight of such a building?

or

How can we take it seriously?

You assume that we are all thinking like you do.
We don't.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956025 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956025 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:14:43 -0800 Comment by jhell Looks like a bowling alley.

]]> jhell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956066 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956066 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:39:34 -0800 Comment by Fnarf The color glow is a gimmick, like the football stadium in Munich that obviously inspired it. But from the inside, the lattice structure is pretty amazing. Perfect for a swimming arena.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956080 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:47:37 -0800 Comment by max solomon we think: we are delighted when we look at it. though it is a duck, it doesn't lie - it contains water.

just like i experience delight every time i look at the burned-out street of dreams.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956102 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956102 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:08:17 -0800 Comment by holz it's a voronoi tesselation. more photos here:
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/02/06/watercube-by-chris-bosse/

]]> holz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956110 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956110 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:13:36 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV The only problem with it is that once you get above freezing much, it is very hard to get water to hold at right angles.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956153 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956153 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:34:17 -0800 Comment by Rebecca I think it's lovely. I don't see why architecture should have to be "taken seriously," much like life itself. What's wrong with a playful design, especially one so well-thought-out and appropriate to its purpose?

]]> Rebecca http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956160 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956160 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:37:53 -0800 Comment by Nutburst Does anyone know what function Charles serves at the Stranger, beyond his obvious talent for riling up Slog comments? I'm serious, I want to know.

]]> Nutburst http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956237 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956237 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:27:52 -0800 Comment by Emily Nutburst@24: he writes the Police Beat.

]]> Emily http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956242 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956242 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:32:18 -0800 Comment by CP So it's official: Charles has less of a sense of humor than the Communist Chinese!

Or is it less of a sense of whimsy? Wasn't he railing against whimsy a month or two back?

Maybe he'd approve if it were shaped like a big titty?

]]> CP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956299 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956299 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:08:23 -0800 Comment by toasterhedgehog I agree with Charles. I'm sure he's thrilled. It's a gimicky building unworthy of housing a bowling alley.

]]> toasterhedgehog http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956657 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c956657 Architecture Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:32:43 -0800 Comment by MH The building is amazing. Has Charles even read ANYTHING about the design or materials used in the grounbreaking structure? It is environmentally one of the most brilliant structures ever built. Look at the architecture in this city - lame, lame, lame.

]]> MH http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c957441 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c957441 Architecture Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:02:10 -0800 Comment by MH The building is amazing. Has Charles even read ANYTHING about the design or materials used in the grounbreaking structure? It is environmentally one of the most brilliant structures ever built. Look at the architecture in this city - lame, lame, lame.

]]> MH http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c957442 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/water_world#c957442 Architecture Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:02:19 -0800