B.I.G Tower 2

Original Tower made before the Brenda's hotel
made after the B.I.G Tower on the east river

Brenda's Hotel

This is my tower. It does not have a name to it but im working on it. At first it wasnt supposed to look like that but there was a change of plans. Anyways this is a hotel and its located on 350 grand street around the school.This building is for people that is touring N.Y. and dont wanna go anywhere far so they a hotel near them. It has 47 floors ad that is my tower.

ALL ABOUT ZAHA HADID

Zaha Hadi is a very interesting an well-known architect. She went from being an unknown student to ’’architecture’s new diva’’. She is a superstar and she is always on top of things and that’s one of the main reasons that she is the most famous female architect in the whole world.

Zaha Hadi was born in Baghdad, Iraq in the year 1950 on October 31. She is a British citizen, an Arab, a Sunni Muslim, and an Iraqi bought up in pre-Saddam Baghdad. She was born in a rich and open family, which means that she got to experience many things. As she was growing up her father exposed her to many other different cultures. But he also taught her about her own heritage. Zaha Hadid first became interested in architecture when she was only eight years old. The way it happened was that a friend of her parents came to show them some designs for her aunt’s house. His designs quickly caught her eye and she quickly became interested in architecture.

Before she started studying architecture she was interested in the field of modern mathematics, and the relationship between philosophy, physics and math. Her parents were aristocrats. Her father was a Baghdad industrialist and a leading politician. Even though Zaha Hadid was born in Iraq she thinks of herself as an Arab but considers herself a Londoner. Zaha Hadid says she enjoys making people wait. She also jumps from task to task. I know it might seem a little sloppy but to her that’s just the Middle Eastern way.


Zaha Hadid went to a convent school. In that school there went French nuns, Iraqi nuns, and English nuns. There were also Muslim girls, Jewish girls, and Christian girls. Zaha Hadid says that as she was growing up that for five years she always crossed her heart. Until one day she realized that her parents never did that. So she asked them and they told that it was because they weren’t Christians. Zaha Hadid studied mathematics at the university in Beirut in the year 1968.

She studied architecture at the Architectural Association from 1972 and was awarded the diploma prize in 1977. Hadid studied elementary school in England and in Switzerland. She learned more about different cultures. Zaha Hadid says that since she was taught the Christian way at school she felt really far apart and separated from her own heritage. Right after Zaha Hadid graduated she worked with her former teacher, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas at the office for metropolitan architecture. Zaha Hadid is currently teaching at the university of applied arts Vienna in Austria.

One of her major works was the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rheim, Germany. Zaha Hadid’s Vitra Fire Station was her first built project. It is a relatively small structure that shows off the unusual shapes and angles that Hadid is known and admired for in her conceptual work throughout the 1980’s. At first this building
was used as a firehouse and then later on it became a showplace for the Vitra collection of chairs. At the bottom there is a picture of the Vitra Fire Station. Some of the shapes of the building are triangles, trapezoid, and squares. In this picture you can also see that the lighting at nighttime is green and that it enhances the geometric shapes of this building.

In the picture above you can see a daytime picture of the Vitra Fire Station. As you can see, the colors of this building are beige. This building was built in 1994.The reason that this building was built, is because a few years before there was a fire around that area. The firehouse was built because there were many houses in the neighborhood and they needed protection.

Phaeno Science Center
Another one of Zaha Hadid’s major works was the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany. They say that it is a hypnotic work of architecture. In this building, Zaha Hadid was mostly influenced by twentieth century housing developments and industrial landscapes. This means that she is more interested in making designs of this time period, unlike other architects whose designs are based on the old days.

This building is a destination where people can walk underneath the building or relax and enjoy the view around it and the neighborhood. It is located near the train station, office buildings and shopping centers. This building is shaped like a boat but it stands on some cones so people could walk under it. This leads to an open public plaza that has also has a blue line on the pavement under the cones that tells people where they can walk by.

Zaha Hadid is known for making shapes come together at different angles. When you walk inside the building you start to look everywhere because of all the shapes and angles dancing around. The inside of the building the floors and walls look blue because of all the windows and the sunshine that comes in. The stone on the outside is beige and the green color windows are sideways rectangle getting smaller.

B.I.G wit STATEN ISLAND NY

The Ferry to Staten island was intresting, It left me speechless.
the view was B.I.G and the crowd was B.I.G some of my friends made a New Design party on the ferry and made it the best ferry trip you ever been on.

Trip to staten island 0$ on B.I.G card
Party on ferry 2$ on B.I.G card
NY skyline PRICELESS

B.I.G Bryce

In The Beginning

B.I.G TOWER

This Is my B.I.G building, It's the B.I.G tower.
The B.I.G Tower is a combination of the Twin Towers, Archs, And a little of my B.I.G style
I made this tower because it is what i would build in real life if i had the money, but i dont so this is my even better building called the B.I.G TOWER , Located at Ground ZERO, stands 110 floors high, park on roof

Louis Khan iz B.I.G

Louis Khan


Louis Kahn was born in Saarama, Estonia in 1901. His family emigrated to the U.S. in 1905. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. During the 1920s and 1930s he worked as a draughtsman and, later as a head designer for Philadelphia based firms. He was a world known architect but he was also known for doing what he thought would be perfect, and just creating what he called a master piece. The clients werent happy with his work so he wouldn’t have a lot of jobs. They wanted a say in how their building should be designed. Louis Khan created what he felt like, he was his own architect. He created 3 or 4 master peices like the library. He also had many kids from diffrent wifes. He kept his son a secret until the kids and wifes met each other at Louis Khan’s wake. Louis had 1 son and 2 daughters.
Nathan, his son, talked to his sisters when he got older to interveiw them for a video called “My Architect”.
Louis’ wives did not like each other but the kids felt that they were not a part of the problem so they wanted to know each other and learn about their father together. They learned a lot from his friends, relatives, and people who ever met him before. They also found out he had many other secret lovers, and that he was with his friends family on christmas and not with his kids. He also spent a lot of his time traveling to India and around the world. Inspite of all the negatives they learned about their father. They all knew there were positives, they knew there was something that made him a great man. Those positives included that he was his own man, made his own creations, and he made what felt to him was beautiful. But he didnt learn to listen and go with the program and that’s what messed up Louis Khan.


Louis Khan was millions of dollars in debt and lost more clients and had to pay for all the equipment he needed with his own funds. Louis had burns on his face from when he was a child becuase he was facinated by the glowing coal and picked one up, scalding his face and hands. His father said he would be better off dead, but his mom said it would make him a better person. So Louis grew up with perminent scarrs on his face and hands. He had no problem getting women, becasue he dated most of the female achitects in his office. One of Louis Khan’s creations was in Texas and it was said that it looked like a catle house, but the inside was suposed to be lit with Texas sun light. In the end of the project, the museum was a magical place because when the sun hit over head, the brightness crawled in and lit it up 3 times brighter. It made the walls glow.
All his creations were unexpected in the interior. The outside of the building would fool anyone, such as the library in India. Louis Khan was a good architect but reckless with his clients. Thats what ended his career, maybe even his life. I believe the debt caught up to Louis forcing him to commit suicide. He was so much into debt he could never pay it off so he decided to kill himself and scratch off his idenity so the bills couldnt trace him or his family. Louis Khan died 1974.

AT&T Just Got a WHOLE lot BIGGER

Let's get big with the AT&T Building, turned into the Sony Building, it is a 37 story building in Manhattan. It was designed by architect Philip Johnson and his partner John Burgee, and was constructed in 1984. It became the talk, for its ornamental top sometimes joked at as the "Chippendale pediment," after a American furniture manufacturer whose couches had a similar design and spectacular arched entranceway, measuring about seven stories in height; With these ornamental additions, the building challenged architectural modernism's demand for stark functionalism and purely efficient design. For this it is considered by many critics to be a prime exemplar of postmodern architecture.


Ps. thats not copying, that's ADVERTISMENT

--=United Nations=--

The United Nations Headquarters were constructed in New York City in 1949 and 1950 beside the East River, on land purchased from the New York real estate developer of the time, William Zeckendorf. This purchase was arranged by Nelson Rockefeller, after an offer of placing it on the Rockefeller family estate of Kykuit was rejected as being too far from Manhattan. The 8.5$ million purchase was then funded by his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr; who donated it to the City. The architect for the building was the real estate firm of Wallace Harrison, the personal architectural adviser for the family.
United Nations Headquarters is a complex in New York City that served as the headquarters of the United Nations since it was finished in 1950. It's located in Turtle Bay, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, overlooking the East River. Even though it is in New York City, the land by the United Nations Headquarters is considered international territory.

Chrysler

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, on the east side of manhattan at the 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Standing 1,047 feet 319 meters high, it was shortly the world's tallest building before it was overtaken by the Empire State Building in 1931. After the destruction of the World Trade Center, it is again the second tallest building in New York City. The Chrysler building is still standing

STOLLERIZE ME BABY

Getting BIG WITH EZRA STOLLER is an opportunity To see Things BIG!.Ezra Stoller was a famous photographer that took beautiful pics of buildingsand was so famous that a building wasn't complete unless Ezra STOLLERIZED it.

Ps. EZRA....YOU SHOULD STOLLERIZE THIS BLOG CAUSE IT'S A WORK OF ART

GETTING BIG WITH LIFE

GETTIN BIG WITH LIFE

Name: Metropolitan Life Insurance building.
Me and Brenda are getting big with the MetLIfe bulding Because of it's history
and the way the Time Represents Life.
Thats why theres a BIG clock on the MetLife Tower.

MetLife Stats

City New York
Country USA
Year 1909
Height 213,0m / 701ft
Floors 51

Call ME GETTIN BIG

175 Fifth Ave.

New York, NY

Known for its triangular floor plan the Flat Iron was designed to make maximum use of its wedge-shaped site at Broadway and Fifth Avenue
Built 1901-1902. Stieglitz, Steichen and others have photographed the structure from Madison Square Park.
Tradition has it that the building inspired the phrase 23 skiddoo. The shape of the building was said to create updrafts that lifted the skirts of women passing on 23rd Street. When men gathered for a look, police shooed them away with the phrase, "Hey, you, 23 skiddoo".

FLAT IRON

ToDay we Gettin Crazy with the FLAT IRON
Sounds like a Superhero....or a Hair App
The flat iron is an icon of NY and steel skeleton makes the trip to Ny worth it all.

Built In 1901 -1902
Stands 22 floors up 285 ft
Style is a Beaux art
First metal skeleton buildning
is the Landmark in NY

Just Your Average FLAT IRON building

No not really.... tell me and Brenda whens the last time you saw a triangler Shaped building?
not anytime soon because.. the Flat Iron Building in NY MetLife Is 1 of a kind ...and if you see one somewhere els Just Know the Architect was thinking about the 1 in NY

Stats

Name: Flat Iron
Date Built: 1901-1902
Architect: Daniel Burnham
Floors: 22
Style: Beaux Art Style
Materials: Steel Skeleton , Lime Stone

Da CrEw

My name is Emilio but you can call me Millz my partner Brenda, is my partner in crime When It comes to thinking big And Seeing BIG .. Were From New Design High School Best School in NY if You Ask For my Opinion.
If you Live in NY buildings shouldnt realy suprise you but.. When you see me and Brenda GET CRAZY WIT IT
your going to see things in a whole new light.

Sky Scrapers With AttiTuDe

Hey Everybody!, Welcome to The OFFICIAL GetTIN Crazy Blog
By, Brenda & MiLLz
We LiVe In THe Great City Of NY
HOME OF SKYSCRAPER's
And Some Of the Famous "Chrysler Building" the "Twin Towers" Also The "Empire State building
If That Aint GeTTin Crazy Wit Height I Dont Wat Is...

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