Here are a couple of examples in Atlanta of the use of flat, painted-on graphics to convey a design intent.
Top: Silhouette Building, Midtown Atlanta. (Architect: REES Associates, Atlanta office)
Bottom: salonred kids, Decatur. (Architect: unknown)
These are two buildings of vastly different scales but both use similar, low-budget graphic techniques to draw the desired clientele; in the first case, cutting-edge businesses, and the second, parents who believe their children need chic coiffures.
I like right across the street from the silhouette building and stare into that blank visage every time I walk outside... I remember when they painted it, and until the point where it became a recognizable figure it just seemed like they were really bad painters
ReplyDeleteHaha yeah the waffling of the facade probably distorted the image in its partial state. You're probably tired of it, but at least the image is memorable. If the designer can get a person to respond to architecture through sensory association, by a singular image, smell, or texture, then I say job done.
ReplyDeleteRight next door to my apartment the building has a giant 'Rodan's thinker' facing silhuette... so I like to think of the two buildings as having a staring contest
ReplyDeleteIt is something that people who have never driven down peachtree do remember distinctly, so yeah mission accomplished.