Challenge 27 : Contemporary architecture

rymus

As suggested by the winner of the last challenge, Morlar. The brief this time quite simply is "Contemporary architecture (urban or rural, interior/exterior, local or foreign)".

Upload your photo to http://photos.rymus.net by 30th July

(apologies for the late start on this one, have moved house and have no broadband )

Beau*

Okay, I'm in, if I can just enter without any form of registration that is.

sineadw

Emmm.. how contemporary is contemporary?

no leaf clover

wat exactly is contemporary!!

edit: im going to bulgaria, and there's still alot of buillding going on, and also there's an aztec town 2mins away... should be some good architechtural shots... but as above, how contemporary?

having looked up a definition for contemporary.. its present day is it?!

Covey

no leaf clover wrote:

wat exactly is contemporary!!

I'm wondering what architecture is. Permanent or temporary?, overground or underground? Can Retro be classed as contemporary?

We do love to debate rather than photograph, eh

Pansy Potter

Just enter your photographs and let the voters decide.

sineadw

Pansy Potter wrote:

Just enter your photographs and let the voters decide.

hehe.. fair enough

smdweb

I always had a problem with the word contemporary ! I find it is sometimes overused or used incorrectly in Ireland... anyway I might upload my picture and see how this is received.

elven

I always thought contemporary meant something like relevant to the period in which it was created, which is not necessarily the same as 'modern'. People talk about things being contemporary to a period, even if it was a hundred years ago...

But I'm not going to be arsey about it, I think we all have a general gist of what it's means as in this context and I can't see anything being struck off for not being contemporary 'enough'. I think maybe victorian and, um, well possibly also castles, would be pushing it

rymus

\o/ Woo, a quiet photo challenge! Cheers Morlar

Morlar

I would have thought contemporary meant - 'of the present time'. ie this century and the last - I wouldnt put castles as contemporary architecture to be honest -by that token pyramids would be contemporary too. I think this century (and the last - damn you 21st century ! ) is more than enough scope.

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Did a google search for 'definition contemporary' and it came back with (relevant ones in bold) :

# characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
# belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders"


con·tem·po·rar·y (kn-tmp-rr)
adj.
1. Belonging to the same period of time: a fact documented by two contemporary sources.
2. Of about the same age.
3. Current; modern: contemporary trends in design.
n. pl. con·tem·po·rar·ies
1. One of the same time or age: Shelley and Keats were contemporaries.
2. A person of the present age.

Morlar

Wahey ! I knew in relation to architecture there was a definite unambigious meaning - google 'contemporary architecture' and its contemporary to now basically.

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

"Contemporary architecture is the architecture being made at the present time. It also includes that of the last few decades, from the 1980s to the present."

I think in the interests of being nice it could be thrown open to about 1900.

sineadw

Grand so. I'm off with my camera to town tomorrow hopefully

pete4130

Would it be lame if I used Gasworks again from last months theme? Just kidding. I wouldn't do that. I've just moved house so I haven't had a chance to shoot something. Will have to see if I have anything suitable in the archives?

Pete.

leche solara

I think people shouild take the word contemporary to mean in their own lifetime