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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #25 on: January 23, 2014, 12:53:06 PM »
Oh, sorry -both were built in Dresden... :P

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2014, 12:55:09 PM »
Oh, sorry -both were built in Dresden... :P
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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2014, 05:38:27 PM »
B 1: Frank Lloyd Wright : Johnson Wax Building and the car that he designed in 1960
Your connection is correct, the car is correct, but I think you have a typo in the number for the building.  ;)
B is locked for you.
B 9  ;D
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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2014, 05:57:47 PM »
if the car D is a Burlington Arrow the connection is with the building # 7, Villa Chiswick, a palladian Villa, designed by Lord Burlington
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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #29 on: January 23, 2014, 06:16:06 PM »
another one maybe F 10?
the car is a Hotchkiss and the building is designed by Hector Guilmard named "La Surprise"
I've find the other ones but I'm too tired to find the connections  :snooze: :snooze: :snooze:
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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #30 on: January 24, 2014, 02:13:56 AM »
B 1: Frank Lloyd Wright : Johnson Wax Building and the car that he designed in 1960
Your connection is correct, the car is correct, but I think you have a typo in the number for the building.  ;)
B is locked for you.
B 9  ;D
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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #31 on: January 24, 2014, 02:15:43 AM »
if the car D is a Burlington Arrow the connection is with the building # 7, Villa Chiswick, a palladian Villa, designed by Lord Burlington
Spot on!

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #32 on: January 24, 2014, 02:19:08 AM »
another one maybe F 10?
the car is a Hotchkiss and the building is designed by Hector Guilmard named "La Surprise"
I've find the other ones but I'm too tired to find the connections  :snooze: :snooze: :snooze:
The combination is correct, the building, too.
Locked for you to find the model designation of the car, which will help you with the connection.

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #33 on: January 24, 2014, 06:16:15 AM »
Hotchkiss Cabourg - "La Surprise" at Cabourg (Calvados)
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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #34 on: January 24, 2014, 06:22:56 AM »
That's the connection.

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #35 on: January 24, 2014, 02:42:50 PM »
How about connecting car I, a VW 1200 Limousine Export-Modell from 1960-64, with building #2, the Supreme Court of Punjab and Haryana in Chandigarh, India, by Le Corbusier? The link could be the Voiture Minimum, a proposal by the Swiss architect for a sort of people’s car – Volkswagen in German –, submitted to a competition announced in 1935 by the French Automotive Engineers Society. The shape of this minimalist vehicle, penned as early as 1929, is claimed by some to have influenced even Mr Porsche while he was working on his own variation on the theme.

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2014, 02:47:40 PM »
Nice idea!
The car is right, the building, too.
But they don't pair. (What gives the last two pairs away.)

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #37 on: January 24, 2014, 03:32:54 PM »
Well, I had already decided that one of the last two pairings ought to be E and 2, but hesitated to post anything because I thought (and still do) that I might be missing something.

But anyway, as already stated, #2 is the High Court building in the Indian city of Chandigarh, which was planned and designed by Le Corbusier.

Photo E was taken at the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart. This was a project from 1927 where 17 different architects contributed buildings to what was initially a kind of exhibition of modern architecture, but which was also intended to be a practical place for people to live. It still exists, though some of the original buildings were destroyed during WW2.

Le Corbusier was one of the architects involved, contributing two buildings, one of which is now the Weissenhof Museum. What made me hesitate is that the building shown in E is not one of his, but was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who had overall control of the project. It consists of numbers 14 to 20 in the street Am Weissenhof.

The car is a Mercedes Benz 8/38 PS saloon. I'm not sure of its exact date, so it may be more correct to call it a Typ Stuttgart 200. The only other thing I can say at the moment is that, having checked out the building on Google Street View, the puzzle picture is reversed. The one below is in the correct orientation.


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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #38 on: January 24, 2014, 04:00:24 PM »
Shame on me for being so superficial!  ;)
Right on all accounts. I just noticed that in fact I wanted to post the following picture that shows a Le Corbusier building at the Weißenhofsiedlung:

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #39 on: January 24, 2014, 05:04:22 PM »
I-8, Volkswagen, the car of people, and the House of People of Bruxelles by Victor Horta.

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #40 on: January 24, 2014, 05:11:08 PM »
Yes, its Flamish name Volkshuis makes the connection even more visible than its more common French name Maison du Peuple.

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Re: Solved: Carchitecture
« Reply #41 on: January 24, 2014, 05:30:04 PM »
Thank you Gerd for this interesting puzzle, it helped me to find some fantastic sites about Art Deco' and Art Noveau Architecture...actually they did lots of beauties in the first 30 years of XX century.

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Re: Solved: Carchitecture
« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2014, 05:51:23 PM »
Yes, thanks for another excellent puzzle. I probably spent far too much time on it, but I learned a lot along the way!

Out of interest, where was photograph I taken? I managed to find a different picture of the same place, but it didn't identify where it was.


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Re: Solved: Carchitecture
« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2014, 06:01:34 PM »
That is the Kongresshalle (congress hall) in Berlin, nicknamed Pregnant Oyster. It was built in 1956/1957 as part of the 1957 International Building Exhibition. Its architect was Hugh Stubbins.

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Re: Solved: Carchitecture
« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2014, 06:03:06 PM »
Thanks!

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Re: Solved: Carchitecture
« Reply #45 on: January 25, 2014, 03:00:31 AM »
brilliant puzzle. thanks a LOT

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Re: Carchitecture
« Reply #46 on: January 25, 2014, 05:38:35 PM »
Yes, its Flamish name Volkshuis makes the connection even more visible than its more common French name Maison du Peuple.

This puts a speedy end to this puzzle.
As always, I hope you had as much fun solving this puzzle as I had thinking about different relations between cars and some of my favorite buildings.

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grobmotorix: 1 point
SACO: 1 point
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thorax: 3 points
Tom_I: 2 points
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