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Exterior building Martin 02-09-2007
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Posted by HVS on February 9, 2007, 12:32 pm
On 09 Feb 2007, Michael Bulatovich wrote

>
>> I finally found a photo of that building in Toronto I mentioned
>> a few weeks back - you have no idea how much I'm gonna hate
>> myself for this if it turns out it's one of yours!
>>
>> The quality of the photo's poor -- it was a quick snap taking
>> during a downpour - but just *what* was going on here with the
>> pink-coloured tower?
>>
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/harvey.vansickle/temp/TO2003.jpg
>>
>> It's got to be one of the oddest mixes of commercial and
>> residential languages I've ever seen -- like they changed
>> designers during the project, and brought in somebody who
>> designed Swiss Chalet restaurants to detail the top of the
>> building...
>
> I thought it might be that one. Your photo shows it pink but I
> could swear it was 'buff'.

Could be a trick of the light; it was a misty and wet day.

> It is definitely NOT mine,

Thank heavens! It's always a bit embarrassing to discover you've
just called a building a pig within earshot of the designer...

--
Cheers, Harvey
Architectural and topographical historian

For e-mail, change harvey to harvey.van

Posted by HVS on February 9, 2007, 8:12 am
On 09 Feb 2007, wrote

>> On 09 Feb 2007, Martin wrote
>>
>>> Hi!
>>> Could somebody help me with an explanation what the term
>>> "exterior building" meeas. I've tried UTFG without success.
>>
>> Without some context of the usage, I'd say it's impossible to
>> say. (I'm in the architecture/urbanism field, and I can think
>> of a number of possible uses, but they'd all be wild-assed
>> guesses at this point.)
>>
>> How is the term being used in the original?
>>
> I apologize for a mistake in my original posting: it should have
> been "extrovert building" instead of "exterior building". :-(
> Context: By any measure the Parthenon is the most sublime of all
> extrovert buildings ever built.

Hmmm; not sure.

My guess would be that it means something like "landmark/statement
building" -- one which calls attention to itself, or is self-
important.

It could be referring to the fact that what you see at the
Parthenon is basically a sort of external shell (which surrounded
the temple to Athena which sat inside), but the analogy to an
extrovert personality seems more likely to me.


--
Cheers, Harvey
Architectural and topographical historian

For e-mail, change harvey to harvey.van

Posted by on February 9, 2007, 8:23 am
> On 09 Feb 2007, wrote
>
>
>
> >> On 09 Feb 2007, Martin wrote
>
> >>> Hi!
> >>> Could somebody help me with an explanation what the term
> >>> "exterior building" meeas. I've tried UTFG without success.
>
> >> Without some context of the usage, I'd say it's impossible to
> >> say. (I'm in the architecture/urbanism field, and I can think
> >> of a number of possible uses, but they'd all be wild-assed
> >> guesses at this point.)
>
> >> How is the term being used in the original?
>
> > I apologize for a mistake in my original posting: it should have
> > been "extrovert building" instead of "exterior building". :-(
> > Context: By any measure the Parthenon is the most sublime of all
> > extrovert buildings ever built.
>
> Hmmm; not sure.
>
> My guess would be that it means something like "landmark/statement
> building" -- one which calls attention to itself, or is self-
> important.
>
> It could be referring to the fact that what you see at the
> Parthenon is basically a sort of external shell (which surrounded
> the temple to Athena which sat inside), but the analogy to an
> extrovert personality seems more likely to me.
>
> --
> Cheers, Harvey
> Architectural and topographical historian
>
> For e-mail, change harvey to harvey.van

Thanks for your answers guys. I've got now at least a feeling what
approximately was meant by this phrase. (As I've written, I thought
first that it is some technical term.) I'll try to find an apropriate
translation (at least descriptive).

Thanks!

Martin


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