It may also be a pity that he failed to witness the completion and landing of this masterpiece
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However, due to factors such as material shortage, inflation and the United Auto Workers’ Union strike, the project was stopped shortly after the start of the project
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Louis Arch designed by ero sarinen got rid of the halo and set up its own door
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He thought of the possible aftertaste form of the building, so he hollowed out a grapefruit, turned the peel over and pressed a depression in the middle, which is the shape feature of the building
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The external vault of TWA terminal building is like a giant ROC spreading its wings
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Ero sarinen designed the GM technology center
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Ero sarinen’s St
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After mistakenly believing that he had won, he congratulated his son from the bottom of his heart
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Ero placed large stairs like sculptures in different halls, among which the huge spiral steps placed in the research building are made of black polished granite and chrome plated metal wire, winding upward and straight to the open space, adding a little tension to the hall, like an installation art growing and extending in the space
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A monument without inscriptions has become the “Arc de Triomphe” of the current era
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Louis Arch designed by ero sarinin deeply felt the frustration of “being defeated by his son”, old sarinin had to admit that this scheme was the optimal solution of the project
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People naturally attributed the victory to their father and celebrated him for three days
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Such a harmonious scene is permanent in little sarinen’s childhood
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ELO sharinen really entered the second round of evaluation and finally won the competition
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As he said: “like the car itself, buildings are basically assembled together, just like on the assembly line, composed of mass-produced units.” The GM technology center opened in 1956 was widely praised
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The success of the GM technology center project designed by ero sarinen is not limited to site planning and architectural external design
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This slightly deliberate design in the eyes of many people is actually just an unintentional move by ero
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Louis Arch is a national competition organized by American architect George Howe to select designers for the Jefferson Memorial in St
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Playing and growing up under the drawing table in his father’s studio, he has already engraved the bud of art in flesh and blood, and fully inherited the way that his workaholic father regarded work above all else
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It was not restarted until three years later and was completely taken over by ero
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Born into an art family, ero sarinen grew up in a crowd full of artists, musicians and many creative people
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On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his death, fashion bazaar art brings you closer to the architect
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Suppressed by his design concept, ero is difficult to escape the framework of rational decorationism and eclecticism, and integrate the national romantic color into the streamlined modern architecture
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I just followed my father’s footsteps to become an architect.” After graduating from the Architecture Department of the Cranbrook Academy of art in the United States, the Washington Dulles International Airport designed by ero sarinen entered his father’s firm and began to explore his own design style
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What really amazes the world is the internal layout details
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The stainless steel giant arch rises from the St
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After the first round of primaries, a telegram “congratulations to sarinen” was sent to the door
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Ero combines the concept of plastic expression formalism of Corbusier with the reinforced concrete structure commonly used by Italian architect Pierre nervi, and constantly explores the integration of different forms of modern ideas in the design.
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However, to everyone’s surprise, it was an own goal
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Since his father died in 1950, ero completely got rid of his shadow and set up his own architectural firm
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Louis river with a span of 192 meters
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Louis Arch Design Competition
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Ero, on the other hand, officially became famous in this battle, proving that he was not “just the son of an architect”
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There is another anecdote about the origin of the wing arch
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There were many masters such as Walter Gropius, and sarinen and his son also delivered the design scheme in their personal identity
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The arch designed by ero practices the consistent Abstract appearance of modernist architecture, eliminates symbolic redundant decoration, and has a sculptural artistic language form
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In the architecture and design circles with dogmatic and increasingly rigid style in the middle of the 20th century, Eero Saarinen wrote a unique chapter with a free attitude
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Although the St
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At that time, Eliel Saarinen, a father engaged in architecture and furniture design, was famous in the industry as a “talented artist” and had many contacts with famous literary and artistic masters such as writer Maxim Gorky and composer Gustav Mahler
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As early as 1945, ero and his father began to design the General Motors Technical Center in Michigan
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Ero sarinen took a group photo with his father and son in his father’s studio
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Sarinen and his son compete in the St
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Among its subsequent distinctive designs, the most outstanding and amazing is the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport
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The GM technology center designed by ero sarinen overturned his father’s original streamlined design and followed the steps of modernist master Mies van der Rohe to build a factory building made of glass and steel with symmetrical rationalism
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It was not easy for him to work in his father’s shadow
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Louis Arch under construction
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For the requirements of the competition that “eye-catching elements need to be seen not only from a distance, but also become an eye-catching monument to the country, so as to be remembered and discussed by people”, ero’s symbolic design perfectly combines tradition and innovation, refreshing the judges in the scheme full of conservative safety signs, And quickly stand out
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Like father, like son? When the family name becomes the aura, the bearer, in addition to the natural attention and honor brought by the aura, is bound to bear the shadow from his predecessors, including sarinen and his son
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It is said that one day when he was having breakfast, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration
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The father and son focused on their own painting world
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It was not until the St
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The TWA terminal of Kennedy Airport designed by ero sarinin is no longer constrained by style
The graceful arcs at both ends meet at the same vertical height of 192 meters, and the cross section gradually narrows with the increase of height to form an inverted arch suspension chain, which is simple and elegant
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In the afternoon, the sun cast a slender and long shadow from the inclined window
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Due to various factors such as land acquisition, the construction of the arch was not started until ero’s death, and was completed in 1965
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Louis’ gateway arch design competition in 1947 that he finally got the first chance to give full play to his personality
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From the “son of a famous architect” to the “master of Organic Functionalism”, the Finnish American architect Eero Saarinen spent his life trying to pick the label imposed by the dead
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After the building complex was opened to the public, it was even called “industrial Versailles Palace” by Architecture Forum magazine
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The secret competition between the two began
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Many years later, he recalled: “apart from a short training in sculpture, I never wanted to do anything
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