Drawing interest

[djswan]

Howdy all,
I'm interested in any historic examples of how architects draw interest...and how it was applied.

Thank you all here on this forum
Derek

[solidred]

I have a building society savings account in which I left about sixteen pence many years ago. Thanks to remaining in credit, the interest accrued means that the account now has about thirty pence (say, fifteen cents) in it.

[SDR]

I found this drawing interesting. . .

[cousinbirgco]

I'm not sure how architects draw interest,
but whenever I design a building with award potential,
I always include a boat.




(it also doesn't hurt to throw in a pirate or two)

[djswan]

Cool I'm in a good crowd. I'm thinking fundamentally. If you can't draw interest, I don't think you can do anything??? at least on a human level. What did the architects do to draw interest and made them be? is there a commonality? I believe the word interest would apply in all it's forms in this case.

Derek

[SDR]

Okay. But we're no closer yet to knowing in what form you originally meant the term. . .

. . .not that there's anything wrong with that. . .

[djswan]

Well, when I first arrived on this forum, there was a thread regarding a blog on "How to be a famous architect". (#1) was throw a brick at someone. I found that interesting. If you're famous, people have to be interested in you.

The first example that pops to my mind is PT Barnum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum

I would assume that great architecture must draw interest or it doesn't last long. No interest and the idea is gone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Paris

Someone was interested in Notre Dame before it was built.
Along those lines. SDR but I'm willing to accept this thread going nowhere from lack of interest.

[djswan]

que the music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2PxAIAI1QQ

...and get the wording right.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/je_ne_sais_quoi

I'm looking for examples of the "it"

[cousinbirgco]

Almost forgot the pirates....


for the -.............

[cousinbirgco]

and for the guys...................

[cousinbirgco]

and for the..............

ah, whatever.

[SDR]

I think "cue" will do -- no need to call in the French, eh ?

"Drawing" is certainly a principal method of architectural promotion. Every newspaper-reader has been, on occasion, a startled witness to the "artist's rendering" of a proposed building.

(By the way, we are happy to see this unhappy misnomer fade from use -- implying as it does that architects themselves are above, or perhaps incapable of, the artistic rendering of their own ideas !)

SDR

[Checkpoint43]

People are "attracted" to a building for 3 reasons.

1) The building itself. For example, The Leaning Tower of Pisa attracts more than 1 million tourists each year.

2) The location of the building. For example, Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water" was built overhanging a waterfall, and over 2 million have visited since it opened to the public in 1964.

3) Events that happened there. For example, 1 million people visit the Anne Frank House each year.

Hope this helps.

[SDR]

And. . . . .thatwouldbeFallingwater. Thank you.

[Checkpoint43]

Sorry about the misspelling.
But what's in a name?

Well, that could be the 4th way to draw interest.

Give your building a famous or unusual name,
like Trump Tower or Trump Plaza or Trump World Tower or Trump Taj Mahal or Trump Park Avenue or...