About Rafael Gomez-Moriana
I am an architect, writer and educator. rafagomo.com chronicles my architectural making, writing, teaching and curating activity, while criticalista.com is an archive of my writings as well as a platform for venting personal rants and observations. I studied architecture at the University of Waterloo (Canada) and at the Berlage Institute (the Netherlands). I direct the University of Calgary’s architecture term-abroad program in Barcelona and teach at CIEE, and have previously taught in the Metropolis Masters Program in Architecture and Urban Culture as well as at Carleton University and the University of Manitoba.
and so the trained eye misses on the obvious??!!more examples: http://unusual-architecture.com/the-washing-mashine-mexico-mexico/http://unusual-architecture.com/kettle-house-texas-usa/and by far the funniest: http://unusual-architecture.com/the-basket-building-ohio-united-states/
Thanks! There are certainly lots of examples, some more literal than others. But it's the examples that don't TRY to look like something else and that have been designed in all seriousness that are, for me, the most interesting, because the nickname was never intended on the part of the architect — far from it, most likely. When the nickname comes from “below” it's much more genuine, funny and imaginative. And much less corny.
Who the hell calls Ito's tower in L'Hospitalet a “tampoon”?… never heard that -and it does not look at all like a tampoon anyway-. Are you making this up?
Medit, I don't have the mindset to make something like that up.