Bryce model skyscraper and cardboard skyscraper model

My Bryce model is a rectangular model which is a music stidio which is also has a clothes store and music store. I wanted it to be a music studio because im into music and i want to be a music producer when i grow up and it was a fun and hard experience for me o make this. The building is located between w28st and w29st it is a 50 story building. I made it a silver color . The cardboard structure was built with hot glue and tape and i not finished yet because i wanted to make an eating space but didn't have enough time.

Bryce 5.5 Model Of My Skyscraper

This is my Bryce 5.5 model of my skyscraper. My influences were the World Trade Center and the Petronas Towers. The building is suppose to be an office building and I knocked down NDHS to make it. It is located between Ludlow st., Essex st., Grand st., and Broome st. It is made out of steel and metal grids. There will be stores and reseraunts on the top of the base of the structure meant for public and employee use. The Cardboard Model is incomplete and it is suppose to be taller but I was limited to a certain height and was unable to finish. I wasn't able to put a picture of my Bryce Model.

Louis Kahn education and architectural work

He was with different families all the time that’s why he spent so much time on artwork. He completed his master’s degree in 1924; one year later he was a chief designer for sesquicentennial exposition. In 1947 he became a teacher for a decade at Yale. His teaching helped him develop his own concepts and to show his definition of design. His work was linked between modern and classical architecture. Louis Kahn had black and white illustrations in his book. He was a great writer and had great speeches. He had a bunch of partners that were also his friends. Louis Kahn used international style was made in the 1920’s and 30’s. Philip Johnson and Henry Russell Hitchcock also used this.

Frank Gehry Monumental

Monumental Works

The Gehry Tower is one of the monumental works Frank Gehry created. Also one his great works is the Chicago Millennium Park. I like the Chicago Millennium Park because it looks unique and cool, and then there is the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Walt Disney Concert Hall is probably one of Frank Gehry’s most familiar works. The reason this is true is because it’s in DisneyLand and DisneyLand is popular in California. The entire building is made out of metal. The reason why people go there is because not only is it a beautiful structure, but also people perform orchestras in there.

Frank Gehry Achitectural Style

Architectural Style

Frank Gehry’s first work was furniture before working on designs for buildings. The Merriweather Post Pavilion was one of the first buildings Frank Gehry designed. Frank Gehry’s art style for his buildings are unique, the name of the Architectural style is called “DeCon” or Deconstructivist. “DeCon” is often referred to as Post-Structuralist. Steve Sample, President of the University of Southern California, said to Gehry that, “…After George Lucas, you are our most prominent graduate.”

Major Works

In 1997, Frank Gehry’s design for the Guggenheim Museum became a reality when it was completed and opened to the public. The Guggenheim Museum is known as one of Frank Gehry’s best work. Years later he designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and it was opened in October 23, 2003. It was completed in 1996, but was opened 7 years later. In the same year Walt Disney Concert Hall was complete, so was his other building Prague, Czech Republic. The Dancing House, was built over a vacant lot where a building once stood but was destroyed in the bombing of Prague in 1945. In 2005 a man named Sydney Pollack made a documentary about Frank Gehry called “The Sketches of Frank Gehry”. The Latest building designed by Frank Gehry is the InterActiveCorp Building in Manhattan. Frank Gehry had received the Pritzker Prize and the first Gish award.

Frank Gehry Education and Early Works

Education
In 1947 Frank Gehry moved to California, had a job as a delivery man, went to the Los Angeles City College, then he was a graduate form the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture. After Frank graduated from the University of Southern California in 1954, he studied City Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 1 year, leaving before he completing the program. Frank Gehry now is a Professor of Architecture at Columbia University in New York City and he also teaches at Yale University.

Early Works
In Frank Gehry’s early career, he use to design furniture. He designed a series of furniture called Easy Edges. They have unique designs and are not made out of wood, they are made out of cardboard. After he designed furniture he started designing houses, he even designed his own house. The Gehry Residence which Frank considers it to be one of best works. Another Chiat/Day Building which seems to be giant pair of Binoculars. The Museum Building is the first Building Frank Gehry designed for Europe. Frank Gehry designed a lot of museums. The Museum Building, The Fredrick Weisman Museum of Art, California Aerospace Museum, Vitra Design Museum and more.

Louis Kahn

Louis Kahn was born in Kuressaare in a Russian empire. In 1905 his Jewish family immigrated to the United States. He was raised in Philadelphia as a naturalized citizen May 15, 1914. When he was three years old he was burned on his face by hot coals and had scars for the rest of his life. He lived in a Jewish ghetto where he had barely enough to eat. His father changed his name to a more German sounding last name because of anti-Semitism. His father said he would be better off dead from the accident when he burned himself. His early life was bad, but he still enjoyed it. He was influenced by Paramount, which he later moved to Pennsylvania. He loved the city life in Philadelphia that’s where he came up with his later designs. He was picked out by public schools that moved him in his career. He then entered the university of Philadelphia.
Later Life
He trained in Beaux-Arts tradition he learned to draw at University of Pennsylvania. He completed his master’s degree in 1924; one year later he was a chief designer for sesquicentennial exposition. In 1947 he became a teacher for a decade at Yale. His teaching helped him develop his own concepts and to show his definition of design. His work was linked between modern and classical architecture. Louis Kahn had black and white illustrations in his book. He was a great writer and had great speeches. He died of a heart attack in the Penn station bathroom in New York. He crossed out his home address on his I.D. card for reasons unknown. He just came back from a trip in India it was almost like he knew he was going to die. Louis Kahn has made thirteen buildings. His buildings were not as unique as others, but they still had a feel to them. Louis Kahn was a humanitarian. He believed that humans could perfect life and do that through architecture. He traveled Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and The Indian subcontinent.

Frank Gehry Bio

Frank Owen Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 into a Jewish family. Frank was born in Toronto, Ontario but moved to Los Angeles in 1947. When he was a child Frank’s grandmother encouraged him because he was a talented and creative child. Frank’s grandmother, Caplan, would take a live fish every n and put it into a bathtub filled with water and she would make gefilte fish. Frank would watch the way the fish moved, the way the fish swerved through the water, which became a big influence in his Architectural designs. Frank Gehry also known as Frank Goldberg, he married Anita Snyder, who Frank claims she was the one who told him to change his name, which he did, to Frank Gehry. Frank Gehry divorced his wife in the mid- 1960’s, he married Berta, which is his current wife. He has two daughters from his first wife Anita, and had two sons from his second marriage with Berta. Since Frank Gehry grew up in Canada, he is a big fan of hockey, later in life he would design the trophy for the World Cup of Hockey.

Liptick Building

The Lipstick building was made in 1986 by architects John Burgee and Phillip Johnson. The building was 453 feet (138 meters) in the air there is 34 floors. The building was made out of granite and had the colors red and grey. The circular motion on the building makes it more interesting it's mostly a bunch of circles. The red in the building that represented the Lipstick building gave more of a hint of what it was. They could've put more outside features.

10:00 Video My Architect

Louis Kahn was a famous architect who designed many building. Louis Kahn died inside of a train station bathroom of a heart attack. He designed buildings such as: Salk Institute, Yale University Art Gallery, Kimbell Art Museum, Trenton Bath house and more. In 2003 Louis Kahn's son Nathaneil Kahn, wanted to know more about his father so he made a documentary about him. The documentary is called "My Architect". Nathaneil Kahn talks to many people who know his father, people who almost spent entire life with Louis Kahn. Nathaneil wanted to know why would his father for some unknown reason crossed out his address on his passport before he died. Nathaneil found out alot about his father and his job. He even met his father's nemisis. Louis Kahn had burn marks on the back of his hands and on his face from when he was a child, so people don't think he is good to look at but alot of people loved him, Nathaneil loved him and Louis Kahn will always be remembered as a father, a husband, and of course an amazing architect.

Ezra Stoller

Ezra Stoller is a male architect in New York University in 1938. He was American-Canadian, he was a photographer. He was born in Chicago on May 16, 1915 he was a photographer for almost 50 years. He photographed a lot of the new invetions of the post war. In the movie Modern Architecture it showed 400 of his most important pieces of work. He photographed black and white images that are considred famous. Ezra Stoller died on October 29 at the age of 89. Ezra Stoller will always be rembered for his famous photography.

The Grace Building

The Grace Building was made in 1971 by the architect Gordan Bunshaft. It is 630 ft (192 meters) with 50 floors same as the Metropolitan Life Insurance building. The design was by Deloitte and Touche in which they used travertine. The color of this structure was a mix between black and white. The thing that's fascinating is the fact that the building slopes like a slide which I find is interesting. When I first saw this building the shape was unusal for a building and i don't even know what that shapes called. The shape was a special feature to me, but it needs more stand out features it was a very interesting building.

United Nations Sculptures

The "Knotted Gun" also known as "Non-Violence" is one of the various sculptures feature at the United Nations Building. The "Knotted Gun" was a gift from the government of Luxembourg and was first reveiled at the U.N. in 1988. A bronze replica of a 45 calibre revolver with the barrel of the gun tied in a "Knot" hence the "Knotted Gun" nickname. The gun was first sculpted in 1980 as a peace symbol and was created by artist Karl Fredrick Reutersward, The Sculpture is Located at the Visitors Plaza. When I first saw the "Knotted Gun" I saw a symbol of peace, a gun with its barrel tied in a knot which would stop the bullet from coming out, so there would be no gunshot...hence the "Non-Violence" nickname. I thought it was an amazing sculpture that not only looked good but it says something, it represents something. An Image of a "Knotted Gun" is basically saying "Stop The Violence".

The Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building was built on October 23,1928. The architect was William Van Allen. The building is astonshing at 1,047 (318.9 meters) with 77 floors. It was the biggest building at one point in Manhatten. The structure was Art Deco which they built the building with stainless steel. The building exterior color design is silver and bronze. The most fascinating thing other then the height was the eagle sticking out on the top they also used replicas from the building on the famous Chrysler car. The eagle has has to be the thing that might stick out the most on the building. I would change the material to a stronger structure you could get. The Chyrsler building is one of the most looked at buildings in the world.

The United Nations Headquarters

The United Nations Headquarters is where all the countries send their ambassadors to negotiate problems, the war, etc. The building was completed in 1950 shortly after World War 2. The Architect was Wallace Harrison, who designed the U.N. to be over 285 ft. tall, 38 stories. The art style he used for the building was called "Scheme 23A". The U.N. was made with Vermont marble.
The color of the building is grayish-white on the sides and on the front and back the color was black and green. The United Nations building feature the flags of the many countries who send their ambassadors to the United Nations building. The flags is the best feature because, when you see ayour country's flag you feel one of the following things: Happy, Proud, Patriotic, and a Civilized Society. If I could change anythig it would be the color of the building, I would make the United Nations building all black because I think it would look better.

The Flat Iron Building

The Flat Iron Building was completed in 1917. It is 22 Stories or 285 ft.(87 m) The architects were Two men from Chicago, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root. Both Architects decided to use Beaux-Arts for the design of the Flat Iron Building. Constructed with a Steel Skeleton and grayish-brown bricks, The Flat Iron Building soon became the Symbol Of New York City.Personally I like the statues at the top of the building because I think that those statues(I might be wrong)are replicas of both of the architects.I think the statues should have been a little bit bigger so people can see it more.The Flat Iron was The symbol of New York City for a very short time, pretty soon buildings like The Chrysler Building or The Empire State would have taken its place for symbol of New York. So far The Flat Iron Building seems to be almost forgotten. The World Trade Center Was New York's Symbol but now it's the Empire State again because of 9/11.The Flat Iron Building is still a historical landmark to this day.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower

The Metropolitan life Insurance Tower was completed in 1909. The architect was Harvey Wiley Corbett. It was the tallest building for a long time at 700 feet and (213 meters) it had 50 floors. The designer used the ecole des beaux -style it was also noticed that at one point they used Marble and then Limestone later on. The buildings color is a mix between gray, green, white, and Gold. They had a clock in the center of the building which is were the Green comes in. I like the top because the gold color stands out on the building. The colors are nice because when you put them together on the building it looks better and it stands out more.

About Us

My name is Jake Liebman I'm in New Design high school. I'm in the 9th grade and im in summer school because i failed social studies and science. I like to play basketball and play video games. I want to be in the NBA when i grow up. My partner is Dario Santos in the 9th grade of New Design high school. I'm in summer school because i failed Math and Social studies.

Building Big paragraphs

The film "Building Big" was a documentary about skyscrapers. It showed how people used towers for a safe haven/protection to using towers/skyscrapers to represent a country or city as a cultral landmark. From old to modern,stone to skeletal construction,this shows the "Evolution" of skyscrapers. The reason for a skyscraper today is: 1) landmark, 2) symbol, 3) save space. By Dario

Building Big paragraphs

The movie Building Big was about skyscrapers and how they were built. They used the elevators to put luggage on it. It was not strong enough to hold people. They built skyscrapers for landmarks, symbols,and to save space. The skeltal structure was to help it become stronger. They had glass boxes at first because it was cheaper instead of steel that's why they called it Internatinal style. By Jake