The Architecture Of Loki TVA | Geeking Out On Neo-Futurist Architecture

[@SketchyArc]

The cat reaching to Andrew at the beginning was too adorable! Seeing the actual building is mind-blowing. The TVA building is a structure outside of time and it does capture the look and feel of something old and futuristic. seeing that it's real feels surreal.

[@Archimarathon]

Oh I never kinda made that connection of being old and futuristic at the same time. Nice one

[@JeremySalterXIV]

It's great that you're able to show us the architects behind the scenes!

[@Archimarathon]

I am just glad that that particular epic scene is not all CGI!

[@andrew60199]

Yes do an episode about Syd Mead

[@Archimarathon]

Aye captain.

[@gabybordino6024]

I second that :)

[@93darkin]

Thanks for the video!! I always feel inspired to read more into the references that get brought up after listening to these discussions.

[@anthonykrithinakis7431]

awesome as usual - I watched Loki, astute take on the architecture

[@Archimarathon]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@sarahtong9363]

Melbourne Bitter is an underrated delight!

[@simonrose8685]

Hey guys, thank you for your channel. I recently stumbled across your vlog and loved your approach to amazing designs and process of thought in all aspects of architecture. I am actually a mature age Landscape Architect student at UC in Canberra. I will tell all of my fellow students of Design about you guys! Oh and my tutors too...

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks and welcome. If you are on Discord we have quite a community and discussions as well

[@simonrose8685]

@@Archimarathon I am not but I will join. My first class is on the 3rd of next month and your channel will be one of my first tasks to share. I have an amazing head of department... If she doesn't alraedy know your channel she will, especially after your Canberra vids.. Pity you didn't go to the Turell Skyspace at the NGA lol

[@Archimarathon]

Haha, Andrew doesn’t like it (and mainly because we ran out of time) but that would be a good episode arguing with Andrew.

[@gabybordino6024]

Awesome! I've enjoyed this episode so much. I feel something special about movies or series that are filmed in real buildings instead of sets, somehow they give me the sensation that the story could actually happen in real life. The ribs... my first thought, while I was watching Loki, was like, oh gosh, are they inside some creature´s chest? And my last comment about repetition, it gives the sensation that there won´t be any surprise, in a good way. Transmitting the feeling of safety. Like if you understand the part, you understand the whole thing. I find it similar to the fact that kids really enjoy watching a movie or reading a book a thousand times, they feel safe because the story doesn´t change.

[@Archimarathon]

Hmmm, interesting take on repetition. Thanks.

[@williamfong]

Awesome! Hope to see more archi-movie-geekery in the future!

[@Casperankinen]

2:18 The NASA facility from Interstellar, which is only a few blocks from the Bradbury, the building from the final part of Blade Runner. Portman's designs remind me of Paul Rudolph's work a lot and Disney's 1971 Contemporary Hotel in Florida which was built in collaboration with US Steel, who had commissioned Syd Mead to make a portfolio of building and vehicle illustrations during the early 1960's, some of which you featured in this video!

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for the extra info and now I have to rewatch Interstellar again!

[@WelcomeToSteph]

Paul Rudolph's drawings are life. His buildings are pretty special too 👌🏼

[@jdanieljenkins]

I know the Contemporary atrium quite well. Certainly a nod to Portman.

[@rushabhsanghvi2522]

you should definitely do more of this kinda videos.

[@Archimarathon]

I wish we had real footage. I hate image overlays

[@libishm4622]

Glorious purpose!

[@Archimarathon]

🤐😉

[@Nynke_K]

Amazing! Makes me want to visit Atlanta :). I can see why they might have wanted to have those outsize handrails in the Marriott Marquis there: not only do they add a lot of visual texture, but also a sense of safety (and some actual safety) for people like me who are inevitably going to want to bend over the railing to look up and down. That view down the Jinmao Building atrium made me a little queasy!

[@Archimarathon]

Jinmao is even more queasy in real life!!

[@JadenGoter]

Great video. I am not an architect, but a game developer. I am making a first-person adventure game set in a hotel heavily inspired by Portman. I've been obsessed with him for many years and wanted to make this game for a long time. I hope I can do his buildings justice while also giving them my own touch. I am trying to design them in the game so that the space and architecture feels real, despite the fact that I get to ignore all conventions and laws of physics if I wanted to :)

[@grahamsteer]

Syd Mead & John Portman in one sentence! Syd's sci fi movie set designs. John's sci fi house, Entelechy. Both way ahead, even now.

[@Archimarathon]

Great to geek out on. Whilst Syd Mead is well known, I think John Portman is not that known to today’s students or even young architects.

[@martinwander8295]

The metal balcony detail in the Portman Hotels is meant to allow for hanging plants. You’ll see some plants strategically placed in them in your video. I’m very much enjoying watching your videos.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks for the clarification and thanks for watching.

[@libishm4622]

It is intriguing ,Often how popular media interprets architecture and certain thematic and cinematographic cues it associates with it.

[@Archimarathon]

I guess it means the spaces are more than ordinary

[@SpiritowlTV]

Repetition with individual identity is attractive - noted

[@louiseouyang7394]

11k subs now!!!!!

[@Archimarathon]

Yeah. Next stop is 100k. Slow climb

[@libishm4622]

Could you get in touch with the director of Loki -Kate Herron, it will definitely answer some questions on her personal experiences in brutalistic architecture, as a civilian experiencing it and offer wider perspectives on how the public percieve brutalist or any other form of architecture.

[@Archimarathon]

Haha, I am not THAT well connected!

[@oradanburadan162]

I will watch this later

[@Archimarathon]

Awesome. I hope you enjoy it.

[@oradanburadan162]

@@Archimarathon Thanks!

[@simeonjohn7153]

Great episode. Keep at it. Nice to see you have that nerdy side going on and what amazing Buildings. Time for a trip to The USA (post Covid of course). Great channel for us slow street walkers (not Zombies) that see every little detail that surrounds us. Cheers

[@Archimarathon]

That's the plan! Back in the day we could have just gone to the USA and shot stuff.

[@WelcomeToSteph]

Love the buildings in this show! Does Time Theatre 25 exist somewhere in the world or is it just a set?

[@Archimarathon]

That I don’t know. Probably just a set.

[@davidchannon6004]

Leoh Ming Pei's Collins Place in Melbourne has a little bit of this going on?

[@Archimarathon]

Similar era, American architects and it's a hotel. I was hoping to drag Andrew there to film in the hotel atrium but we didn't have time.

[@roberttaylor9259]

interesting story about that marriot. I was on a field trip throughout the reaches of the south and we stopped by Atlanta briefly. I believe they were doing renovations (much on that later) and it wasn't as impressive as one may think because it seemed so dated with the finishes. We went up the elevator to the top floor for the pictures of course because...students. The top access door happened to be ajar. My friend being renown for obtaining us roof access, summoned us and we went up and the thing is it wasn't just roof access then there was side access and fire access and etc, etc. Before we knew it we were in the abandoned top suite that was being renovated. It was sketchy but a fun story and a very long treck up stairs. edit: though we did go into the marriot, the roof access was next door at the Hilton. We visited both and the sections in the video got me to wondering.

[@Archimarathon]

Great story. Not as impressive as one may think?

[@roberttaylor9259]

@@Archimarathon The atrium was beautiful but I really found some of the interior choices a bit dated. I believe you showed a picture of it with the more orange stanley kubrick-esque carpet, I believe that was there when we went (though it may be different now.) On that particularly day it took something away from it. It felt like a building only focused on one architectural moment (the atrium) and less about the private spaces. It may be been the day we had just visited the high museum extension by Renzo Piano and a few other gems in Atlanta so perhaps it being the last visit and only a quick one (this and the hilton was only a 30-45 minute tour together) as opposed to a total tour of the others it was just less impactful. Which is odd because I'm a huge sci-fi, Kubrick fan. I probably need to visit again.

[@Archimarathon]

Yes the new carpet is stripes if you look at recent photos. I had the opportunity many years ago to put in a design tender (together with a very large firm which didn’t have an office in Beijing at that point) for the yet to be built serviced apartments component of John Portman’s project in China. His interior plans were not great to put it lightly which is partly why the company was looking for others to design the interiors instead of Portman. Yes I would imagine the focus being on the atrium because the exteriors are not great.

[@roberttaylor9259]

@@Archimarathon I definitely am looking more into his stuff after you showed the San Fran Hyatt. I believe there's some great lessons to be learned there. Also, I literally just found out 10 seconds ago he was born about 30 miles from where I'm from now and less than 10 from where I went to arch school

[@danarch11]

The San Francisco hotel is notable in two movies: Mel Brook’s ‘High Anxiety’ and it “plays” the lobby of ‘The Towering Inferno’.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks. Will check them out

[@che2879]

Hmmmm think I will start watching it!

[@Archimarathon]

Have you watched other Marvel movies like Thor and Avengers yet?

[@che2879]

All of them! I love marvel stuff!

[@Archimarathon]

@@che2879 then yeah. The TV stuff are really great

[@hurtecho]

John Portman & Associates = Pan Pacific Hotel Singapore.

[@efeoz8131]

MB or VB would probs be the hardest question to answer..

[@Archimarathon]

Defo MB

[@rebeccaw9656]

While you’re showing off this impressive hotel, I’m more distracted by Who’s house is this, or office or man shed - impressive Star Wars collection and board game collection… and that’s all about smart storage because you want to display your favourite things to use, rather than stow it away in a cupboard - out of sight, out of mind.

[@Archimarathon]

It’s Andrew’s own house, aka “The Mental Health House” or “My-House” by Austin Maynard Architects.

[@ethanscotney9999]

15:58 "Ummm ackchyually Andrew what you described is a pyramid scheme... a Ponzi scheme is paying a small portion of 'profits' to earlier investors with the money of new recent investors" I am not mad... just disappointed

[@Archimarathon]

I thought I said pyramid after him, a Syd Mead pyramid. Looks like I edited it out.