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rosaline (0) 2006-06-09 15:57

Hi Jonathan
You have really made the building look more attractive than it is - this is a testament to your skill here. I visited this building and thought it was very ugly indeed. The use of the warm sunlight has enhanced the composition and the nice use of the reflections. You have done an excellent job here.
Cheers
Aubrey

Vato_Law (12732) 2006-06-09 17:08

Hello Jonathan,
Nice capture and POV for this picture. Like the coulours and reflections on water. It's a pitty that the sky is a bit washed up and the image is a bit dark on the right side.
Rgds.
Paulo

siolaw (38294) 2006-06-10 1:04

Hello Jonathan,
A nice compo of the assembly,if it is ugly as Rosaline says, you have done a great job coz it looks quite good here,
wonderful colors and sharpness, absolutely noiseless,and good reflection
Well done
Laurent

synth (214) 2006-06-10 5:15

stunning.
i am in love with your pictures. you do know how make things look attractive. love the angle you took this picture from and the reflections on the water are simply stunning and that goes for the warm loving colours as well. Another great shot indeed.

Synthia

Tue (92402) 2006-06-10 16:59

Hej Jonathan,
A great view with lovely reflections, I like the little distortion of them. The light and colours are also very pleasing. Well done!
Hilsen,
Lars

Graal (103040) 2006-06-11 2:46

Hi Jonathan,
good POV, very pleasant view, nice reflections and colours. Beautiful place. I like it a lot. Good quality of photo.
Rgs, Aleksander

neelkaak (458) 2006-06-11 10:27

Regarding the National Assembly Building:

"In the assembly I have introduced a light-giving element to the interior of the plan. If you see a series of columns you can say that the choice of columns is a choice in light. The columns as solids frame the spaces of light. Now think of it just in reverse and think that the columns are hollow and much bigger and that their walls can themselves give light, then the voids are rooms, and the column is the maker of light and can take on complex shapes and be the supporter of spaces and give light to spaces. I am working to develop the element to such an extent that it becomes a poetic entity which has its own beauty outside of its place in the composition. In this way it becomes analogous to the solid column I mentioned above as a giver of light. It was not belief, not design, not pattern, but the essence from which an institution could emerge..."

(Louis I. Kahn, Louis I. Kahn: Complete Works 1935-74. p236, 238.)

I think it is needless to say more about The National Assembly Building of Bangladesh (Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban) - considered to be Louis I Kahn's masterpiece and one of the great monuments of Modernism in architecture. Its architectural excellence is unsurpassable - the whole mass is a harmonic play of solid and void, shadow and light.

It never occured to me that someone could find it ugly! But offcourese there are people who might find the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut or the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas or the Richards Medical Research Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as very ugly.

Regarding this photograph:
Actually, I was hoping for something more from you Jonathan, specially after seeing those beautiful previous posts. Every morning and evening on my way to office and back home I see this building in so many different lights that I find this one rather flat and uninteresting. I wholly agree with gebala.
Shuvechchha. Kazi

Stepan (27210) 2006-06-12 14:16

I wouldn't have expected Bangladesh to have that kind of achitecture (whish is finally a stupid thought !?) and I thank you for showing us that. And it's very well realized, with a wondeful light and a great graphism.
St閜hane

isabela_sor (47748) 2006-06-13 16:01

What a great perspective..nice sense of depth. The reflections are also good..I like these warm colors!
TFS
All the best
Isabela