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An absolute giant in his field is gone.  He designed some of the coolest buildings in the world.  And he played a monster role in the skyline of Dallas (city hall, Fountain Place, Myerson Symphony Center, Energy Plaza).

 

I believe he designed the tallest five sided building in the world, Chase Tower in Houston.

H-town bitches

The pyramid was ridiculed at first, and has become a tourist favorite.  It's an amazing structure that doesn't detract from the surrounding heavily embellished,  classical, heavy masonry architecture, and still has it's own unique identity, scale, and proportion.  Transparent yet it has weight.

The light filled subterranean below was one of my favorites when we visited a couple years back.

A talented, creative man.

He took an irregular trapezoid lot that most people would probably have built square or rectangle and left a big splotch of ground.  But this guy... THIS guy.. well he built this:

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Got damn ingeniously simple... two opposite triangles adjoining each other.  I spent MANY a wonderful time in that building.

Was Pei >> Wright?  He'd get my vote, probably.  There was nothing the man couldn't design, and design better than anyone.  RIP.

first time i went to the louvre i was struck by how familiar it felt-  didn't hit me til a long time later it reminded me of the myerson.  

3 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

The pyramid was ridiculed at first, and has become a tourist favorite.  It's an amazing structure that doesn't detract from the surrounding heavily embellished,  classical, heavy masonry architecture, and still has it's own unique identity, scale, and proportion.  Transparent yet it has weight.

The light filled subterranean below was one of my favorites when we visited a couple years back.

A talented, creative man.

The chalice and the spear. 

I'm not an architect, but I think this vantage point of the National Museum of Art got me interested in architecture.  So clever and sensible.  To create alignment of a building in the background with angles from the foreground building takes amazing forethought, planning and an eye for design.  Dude was a wizard for sure.  

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12 hours ago, Fico said:

I believe he designed the tallest five sided building in the world, Chase Tower in Houston.

H-town bitches

He also designed 2425 West Lopp South, the very non-descript mid-rise office building  between Westheimer and San Felipe next to Hotel Derek. 

 

9 hours ago, phdhorn said:

He took an irregular trapezoid lot that most people would probably have built square or rectangle and left a big splotch of ground.  But this guy... THIS guy.. well he built this:

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Got damn ingeniously simple... two opposite triangles adjoining each other.  I spent MANY a wonderful time in that building.

Was Pei >> Wright?  He'd get my vote, probably.  There was nothing the man couldn't design, and design better than anyone.  RIP.

He fought to have the edges of the triangular corners of the building left as sharp edges of marble against the advice of the fabricators. They said they would chip and lose their sharp edge. They recommended he square or round of the corners.  He resisted and, It hasn't failed yet, and is one of the coolest details on the building.  The exterior design itself has never done much for me, but the interior spaces are sublime.

13 hours ago, phdhorn said:

He took an irregular trapezoid lot that most people would probably have built square or rectangle and left a big splotch of ground.  But this guy... THIS guy.. well he built this:

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Got damn ingeniously simple... two opposite triangles adjoining each other.  I spent MANY a wonderful time in that building.

Was Pei >> Wright?  He'd get my vote, probably.  There was nothing the man couldn't design, and design better than anyone.  RIP.

I love the east wing.  Takes my breath away everytime I drive by it.

2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Why not just build an irregular trapezoid?

well, that's why he was a giant of architecture and you have a P for an avatar.

15 hours ago, phdhorn said:

He took an irregular trapezoid lot that most people would probably have built square or rectangle and left a big splotch of ground.  But this guy... THIS guy.. well he built this:

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National-Gallery-of-Art__2018_EastBuildi

Got damn ingeniously simple... two opposite triangles adjoining each other.  I spent MANY a wonderful time in that building.

Was Pei >> Wright?  He'd get my vote, probably.  There was nothing the man couldn't design, and design better than anyone.  RIP.

Not a fan of the modern mixed in with the classic buildings. It seems misplaced.

1 hour ago, Bevo said:

Not a fan of the modern mixed in with the classic buildings. It seems misplaced.

I might say that if it were squeezed between other buildings on the Mall. But being the farthest building East, and essentially pointing toward the Capitol, I think it's an incredibly fitting structure and very much a representative of its era as the classic buildings are.  It almost seems too being Arrowhead pointing toward the capitol. But to each his own, that's reasonable..

Some buildings people may have been in and didn't know it was IM Pei.

 

Rock And Roll HOF in Cleveland.

rock and roll museum

 

Kennedy Library in Boston

jfk library

 

Dallas City Hall

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7 hours ago, deadshank said:

He also designed 2425 West Lopp South, the very non-descript mid-rise office building  between Westheimer and San Felipe next to Hotel Derek. 

 

Cool, thanks for posting this.  I always wondered if they planned for a mirror image building to go up on the empty lot next door, but then an oil bust/real estate collapse happened.

 

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6 minutes ago, MAROON said:

Cool, thanks for posting this.  I always wondered if they planned for a mirror image building to go up on the empty lot next door, but then an oil bust/real estate collapse happened.

 

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Yes. Phase II was planned as a mirror image but the 1980's oil bust out front shoulda told ya. 

Have you been to....let's see....Santiago, Chile?

I'm pretty sure he designed the Amigo Towers, just down the street from the Estadio Olympico.

43 minutes ago, MAROON said:

Cool, thanks for posting this.  I always wondered if they planned for a mirror image building to go up on the empty lot next door, but then an oil bust/real estate collapse happened.

 

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This thing used to have a big For Lease sign that said "Designed by IM Pei!!". Always made me think to myself, "well, even Babe Ruth struck out a bunch of times".

/csb/ My dad gave I.M. Lei a cigar the night I was born in Singapore in 1981 /csb/

RIP to one of the greatest of his profession. 

On 5/16/2019 at 9:19 PM, tokamak said:

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Always liked this one.

Not a fan of most of his work (or 90% of modern architecture), but this is cool. 

He was lucky to have worked at a time when not much talent was required.  I think he's only better than Philip Johnson because of the Louvre.  He had one good idea his entire career.  

1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

He was lucky to have worked at a time when not much talent was required.  I think he's only better than Philip Johnson because of the Louvre.  He had one good idea his entire career.  

I'd put Philip Johnsons New Canaan glass house right up there,  more so because of the time period it was conceived.

1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I'd put Philip Johnsons New Canaan glass house right up there,  more so because of the time period it was conceived.

It's a knock off of the Farnsworth House.  Being #2 doesn't usually count for much.

5 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

It's a knock off of the Farnsworth House.  Being #2 doesn't usually count for much.

Certainly the same design theory, but I always preferred Johnsons box sitting firmly on the ground, instead of floating above it.

I'd put Philip Johnsons New Canaan glass house right up there,  more so because of the time period it was conceived.


Don’t throw stones.
12 minutes ago, Llano Estacado said:

 


Don’t throw stones.

 

keep yer shorts on.  Both good pieces of advice.

No one has posted it so I guess I will:

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Has to be my favorite skyscraper in Texas. 

On 5/18/2019 at 12:30 AM, ImissWallyPryor said:

Not a fan of most of his work (or 90% of modern architecture), but this is cool. 

the iconic building of one of the most iconic skylines in the world.

10 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

the iconic building of one of the most iconic skylines in the world.

It's all about juxtaposition of form.

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