Comments on: EUROSCRAPER by José Muñoz Villers

By: tony t

tony t — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:55:37 +0000

haters! nice effort, jose.

By: dwight

dwight — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:22:49 +0000

A dare to be different… is what sparks innovation…. a change from the norm….that one day becomes the familar.

By: Jack73t

Jack73t — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:30:01 +0000

It looks like a snake tryng to eat itself.

By: James Ira

James Ira — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:58:10 +0000

I see no obvious way for this structure to be held up efficiently. Even if it could be built, the concrete and steel neccessary would easily surpass that of a “boring” verticle skyscraper, possibly by multiple factors. This is not a green building. Even if the running costs were low, the initial construction costs would more than cancel out any benefit. This building is definitely a toy for the first world.

There is a reason that skyscrapers are mostly verticle – It’s the most funicular form when loading gravitational forces!

By: rek

rek — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:33:16 +0000

It’s nice looking but impractical.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:03:58 +0000

On 29 January 1967 Jorn Utzon, who had submitted a revolutionary design concept, was declared winner of the Bennelong Point Opera House competition. Utzon’s design had been pulled from a reject pile by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, one of four jury members deciding the competition. Taken by Utzon’s diagrammatical sketches, Saarinen harangued his colleagues into unanimity……….Thank God for that !

FROM A RESIDENT OF SYDNEY

By: Jack73t

Jack73t — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:05:58 +0000

Compound curves create colossal cash cows.

By: trinitrotolueno

trinitrotolueno — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:05:27 +0000

Amazing work dude, don’t llisten to those that don’t have anything better to do tan criticize the work they could not even achieve in their wildest dreams!

By: Julieta Nicolakis

Julieta Nicolakis — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:42:10 +0000

Jose, CONGRATS!!! For thinking Outside of the BOX!!!
This is the kind of things that makes you think on where are we as society and where are we going.
The impact on the futuristic look versus the ordinary landscape is huge and as a piece of art is phenomenal.
And come-on if this where already built who wouldn’t want to live or visit this building!
Keep up the good work and Ideas
“la chilanga”

By: mike

mike — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:58:56 +0000

can you list some people you call visionaries? your comment begs the question from me.

By: john

john — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:46:49 +0000

Wow. Sometimes I forget just how few people are visionaries. But then I get to read all of these sad comments.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:18:13 +0000

Jose did this project as a student at Columbia University (GSAPP) under Asymptote’s Hani Rashid. It had/has no intentions of being built. It was simply a student project study. Nothing more and nothing less.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:13:36 +0000

I think I would move in–if I could afford it!

By: RAUL GARZA

RAUL GARZA — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:18:18 +0000

YUST A COMMENT ABOUT MR. MUNOZ VILLERS, AT FIRST LOOKS AVANT GARDE, SIMPLE AND ETHEREAL WITH AN OUTHER SPACE REMINICENCE, SO FAR SO GOOD, BUT COMONG TO THIS EARTH I DO NOT SEE SOMETHING LIKE IN THE NEXT – 100 – YEARS.
I AGREE, ARQ. IS FOR PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF TODAYS, NOT FOR THE FUTURE.

IT IS FOR ME, NOTHING MORE THAN A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO A VERY REAL AND URGENT PROBLEM.

DREAMING DO NOT COST, BUT SOME TIMES, THEY DO NOT SOLVE NOTHING, BUT KEEP DREAMING.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:15:27 +0000

hmm… i love it… haha =)

By: soju

soju — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:22:55 +0000

i get the feeling your “homeboy” corbusier might have had the same trite spoken of him in 1929

By: mike

mike — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:43:54 +0000

I think the best part of this type of architecture is that you cant upload the form to 3d tetris and ever expect to get past level one.

On the other hand, in my opinion architecture in the REAL world is less about sculpture and more about organizing the many issues and possible complications that are particular to a project site. Otherwise what is the difference between an architect and an artist who goes to an engineer for help in designing a port-a-potty for the 21st century? This project maybe would seem a lot more interesting if his site wasn’t a city of holographic buildings. But, if it was……!

SO maybe the architects who dig this kind of thing will find their energy satisfyingly expelled into alternative world projects when things like second life are less of an entry level concept. Then their sculptural desires will not conflict with reality, but their theoretical dreamworld can still have a real effect on spatial interactions.

Note: I cant organize my bedroom. So, if it was the shape of a pulsating inverted vagina mold, i would probably end up choking myself to death on some of my dirty socks.

By: meef

meef — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:55:11 +0000

i like these 3D images . cool

By: graig sterling

graig sterling — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:59:45 +0000

Edan you took the words right out of my mouth! BUT he should careful his wife might divorce him if he bough her a ring that would look like those monstrosities .This a classic case of the other extreme,on the one hand you have the pathetic cookie cutter chicken house that are springing out all over the landscape & on the other you these EXAGGERATIONS from those whom do not have THE GIFT for futuristic architecture of a Le Corbusier (to conceive villa Savoye in 1929) so they are craping this rubbish.

By: edan

edan — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:25:08 +0000

I hope it never gets built. What a monster. Mr. José Muñoz Villers can make it into a nice ring for his wife and them it will not offend anyone. It is a bad case of “architecture as object”. Do you truly think it would look nice or add anything to our lives having this decaying organic ring in our skyline?