Best Buy has given me a mix of positive and negative experiences. Every encounter is positive when I enter in as a customer. I get what I need and each item performs the way I would like it to after heavy research of what is best. The only negative experiences I have faced was from working there for three years as any regular retail/customer service job would give. Other than that, I would still go back to buy the products as they contribute to the investment I am making in my career.
Palen Music Center was a big part of my teenage years as a musician. It has affected me in a positive way because of the variety of instruments they offer as well as the ability to get what I needed to play in the band at school. I was also featured in the newspaper for being the student of the month as their stoor one year. Every experience has been great and I know I will find myself back there soon!
This university building is located in Dusseldorf, Germany. The entire building is made of metal and glass. The main visual aspects of this building are the windows, balconies, and stairs. Unlike most university buildings, this one was created to look more like a sculpture than a regular university building. The interior design looks seamless as there is a continuation from the stairs to the floors and ceilings. There is not a single right angle in this building which makes it very unique. Though the interior space houses offices and teaching spaces, because of the flow of the entire structure everything looks open and spacious. This is definitely a building that I would go visit, only because I am curious to see how the design affects echoes.
This is the 100 Eleventh Avenue building located in New York City, New York. This is a 23rd story residential tower designed by Jean Nouvel that is found on the intersection of 19th street and Eleventh Avenue. This building is one of the most technologically advanced curtain wall systems. Jean Nouvel also refers to West Chelsea masonry industrial architectural traditions. Nouvel also took inspiration from his Arab World Institute Building in Paris. The building was completed in 2010 and now houses hundred of people in New York City.
The Vista Tower is the third tallest building in Chicago, IL. Designed by Jeanne Gang this building is consisted of four buildings combined together with each building getting taller and taller. Like most designed built by Jeanne Gang other projects, she uses sunlight to impact both interior and exterior parts of the building making it environmental friendly. Building a skyscraper as a residential area for a city that has a population of over 2.7million city will reduce overcrowding. With its wavy architecture designs, and contribution to the environment using sunlight. This Vista Tower is a place that I’d like to visit one day if I were to visit Chicago.
“Frank Lloyd Wright worked for Adler & Sullivan from about 1887 to 1893. After the firm’s success with the Auditorium building, Wright played a larger role in the smaller, residential business. This is where Wright learned architecture. Adler & Sullivan was the firm where the famous Prairie Style house was developed. The best-known mingling of architectural minds can be found in the 1890 Charnley-Norwood House, a vacation cottage in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Built for Sullivan’s friend, Chicago lumber entrepreneur James Charnley, it was designed by both Sullivan and Wright. With that success, Charnley asked the pair to design his Chicago residence, today known as the Charnley-Persky house. The 1892 James Charnley house in Chicago is a grand extension of what began in Mississippi — grand masonry subtly adorned, unlike the fancy French, Châteauesque style Biltmore Estate that Gilded Age architect Richard Morris Hunt was building at the time. Sullivan and Wright were inventing a new type of residence, the modern American home.”
“In 1892, Sullivan developed his magnum opus, the Wainwright Tomb, a monument dedicated to the memory of Charlotte Dickson Wainwright, in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis. This building is not only listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but it is also a St. Louis Landmark. In 1893, Sullivan began designing his iconic polychrome modern Transportation Building for the “White City”, at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The iconic duo of partners broke up in 1893, due to the severe economic depression that took over America, and Sullivan began encountering serious financial difficulties, and he gave into alcoholism.”
“Following the dissolution of Adler and Sullivan’s formal partnership in 1895, Sullivan’s life was increasingly troubled and turbulent. After completing a final addition to Chicago’s Schlesinger and Mayer Store, now Carson Pirie Scott, in 1904, his commissions became sparse and modest in budget. During the last decades of his life, Sullivan’s most important architectural work was a series of small but exquisitely detailed banks in rural communities throughout the Midwest. He devoted much of his remaining time to writing about architecture and philosophy, producing such works as The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896), Kindergarten Chats (1902), and The Autobiography of an Idea (1924). Toward the end of his life, Sullivan was commissioned by the Burnham Library of The Art Institute of Chicago to produce a large portfolio of his intricate and delicate drawings, which was published as A System of Architectural Ornament, According With A Philosophy Of Man’s Powers, 1924 in 1924. Sullivan died in Chicago on April 14, 1924. In 1944, the American Institute of Architects posthumously awarded its Gold Medal to Sullivan.”
“In 1879, Sullivan entered the Chicago office of architect and engineer Dankmar Adler, becoming his full partner in 1883. Together, Adler and Sullivan designed nearly two hundred residential, commercial, religious, and mixed-use buildings, primarily in the Midwest. Adler and Sullivan were highly regarded not only for their robustly modern and iconoclastic architecture—which illustrated Sullivan’s dictum “form follows function”—but for Sullivan’s complex and organic ornament. Their best-known buildings include the Auditorium Building in Chicago (1886-1890); the Wainwright building in Saint Louis, Missouri (1886-1890); the Schiller Building (1891) and the Stock Exchange (1893-1894) buildings, both in Chicago; and the Guaranty building in Buffalo, New York (1894-1895). It was also during this time that Sullivan became the leibermeister of Frank Lloyd Wright, who worked for Adler and Sullivan from 1888 to 1893.”
This house is located in Ludwigsburg, Germany. It was built in 2008 by Jurgen Mayer over an existing structure. Using the existing structure as the main part of the house, Mayer continued the construction by expanding the house outward and upward. The main structure of the house is a square or rectangle while the rest of the house was sculpted with curves and fluidity. Though this house looks very different from our definition of what a normal house would look like, the design idea was very traditional. The idea was to build a house that could be used by multiple generations of a family comfortably. This house is very minimalistic. I think this is a stunning work of art. If I could live in a house that looked like this one I would never leave!
