Here’s a roundup of some more skateable architecture. These aren’t just fantasy proposals. The top two are scheduled for construction and the bottom two have already been built. I titled this collection “marginally skateable” not because the terrain is barely skateable, but because the skateable features are just a small part of the overall design.
Starting clockwise from the top left.
This is one of four houses to be built Cyprus, designed by an Italian firm Iosa Ghini Associati. I found this over in the DeZeen Magazine Archives.
Iosa Ghini Associati has a lot of skateable architecture in the design phase on their web site. Take this structure below. They seem fond of the folded slab of concrete approach. The roofs of this thing is where the action is. This would be similar on a smaller scale to the type of house you might think one of the more famous skate celebrities would live in, but the reality is they all end up in generic,but really expensive McMansions.
Next up, a brand new airport terminal scheduled for construction in 2012 at Lublin International Airport in Poland. The features of interest are the rounded corners that meet the ground. [Source: DeZeen Magazine]
Next up is a house somewhere in Japan that was photographed by British architectural photographer Edmund Sumner. It’s for an exhibit titled Outside the Box – Images of contemporary Japanese architecture. Kinked but fun! [Source: DeZeen Magazine]
Lastly, reader Michael Pfister sent a link to this post from Concrete Dude. It’s a fire station that was built for some sort of temporary landscape or architecture fair in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It looks like the top picture came from the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, and the bottom one may be actual reconnaissance.
6 comments
ssk
I want to found a secret society of architects that covertly make their buildings skateable.
skaterhusseindave
I read a letter to a skate mag in the ’80s from an architecture student who said he fully intended to put tranny on buildings he designed. He also said something like “Hmmm, I wonder if I can talk my clients into using pool coping as window sills?”
Kilwag
That sounds familiar.I think I remember that too.
SK8 Devilson
ssk, check out zaha hadid then all of her structures are skateable. i think that last photo might be one of her european train stations. also her building in cincinnati has a great transition wall.
Julian
Here are some of my favorites,
http://www.archdaily.com/11232/maritime-youth-house-plot/
and
http://www.vulgare.net/base-parc-des-pres-de-lyon/
and who knew chicago invented the mega ramp,
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2009/02/ski-chicago.html
maziyar
zaha is 4e’er.i lyk it.my friends send email 2me 4 more info.im w8in’ 4 u.