Pompidou Centre

A contemporary designed building holding some of the most famous and recent artworks siutated in the elegant Parisian centre. One of my favorite structures and the best building in Paris, for sure.

The daring use of bold colours and radical transformation from traditional, using monumential buildings to signify importance and status has been torn up. Escalators and that protrude in segments and made a feature of is unique to my knowledge and an inspiration to design differently and make a statement.

Every angle provides a new composition, a building that you could never be bored by.
The architecture is just as good as the exhibitons inside.

Le Corbruiser - Villa Savoye

Unbelievably Villa Savoye was built in 1929 and represents an international style of modernity and urban living. I admire Le Corbruiser's ingenius forsight of futuristic living so early in the 20th century. He is up with artists like Mondrian who designed with form and structure.



Built for luxury and the rich, the architectural considerations includs automobiles of the day and incorporating the garden with builing. Using the balcony above, the owners can drive the car under the house and be shielded from the rain.



I commend his attention to detail in this respect and pioneering vision of originality and bravery to break the mould of expectations. Using concrete he manage to construct open planning without the constraints of supporting walls.



However, I do not think that such an art work is suitable for living. Its function is beyond a home, it is a structure to be admired.

Random out of nowhere

A particular building caught my eye amongst the elaborate historical architecture in Brussels. Pantone 298 U stood out beyond several 100ft from where first noticed this contemporary colour popping out of the white stone palette





Just the use of colour shows simple effectiveness and recognition of the location. It doubtly turned heads and left a curiousity to what it was.