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enochliew:

Digital Beijing by Studio Pei Zhu

The deep shadow line around the top of the columns work incredibly well.

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plagiarismisnecessary:

David Kohn Architects + Fiona Banner

A Room For London (2011) 

reworked…

ymado:

Castor and Pollux
Antoine Coysevox, 1712
Jardins du Château de Versailles

(Source: antonio-m, via rosmhuire)

andarchitecture:

Austria, Bregenz, lake stage festival theatre, André Chénier, opera by Umberto Giordano.

“Lake Constance as bath tub, director Keith Warner & set designer David Fielding have chosen “The Death of Marat”, an iconic painting by the revolutionary artist Jacques-Louis David, as the symbol & inspiration for their staging of “André Chénier”. It is the first time that a historical painting has served as the basis for a Bregenz stage set, which towers 24 metres high above Lake Constance. 

Set against the background of the French Revolution, the opera “André Chénier”, which premiered at “La Scala Milan” in 1896, is a historical drama of sharp perceptivity & a human tragedy of devastating intensity; appealing both as a passionate love story & as a historical thriller.”

(via catrinastewart)

EliinBar, Sketch Comparing Le Corbusier, Archigram, Will Alsop, and Wolfgang Tschapeller Projects, 2011.

The blog “Someone Has Built This Before” and the page contains a series of sketches by EliinBar showcasing the formal similarities between several projects, with the overarching philosophy that few things if any are without formal precedent. Some comparisons are stretches, but others are quite striking.

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lessadjectivesmoreverbs:

subtilitas:

Diener & Diener - New east wing of the Museum of Natural History, Berlin 2010. After being nearly destroyed by bombing during WWII, the architects took a unique approach to its reconstruction and preservation. Using silicon molds taken from the surviving exterior shell, a replication of the existing facade was cast in concrete, down to the detailed level of each individual brick. Due to the light-sensitive nature of the exhibits within, some existing windows were bricked up, and the new concrete cast windows were given the original mullion details. The result is an interesting patchwork highlighting the building’s history; a dialog between it’s original form, destruction, and reconstruction. Image via.

This is really great.

architizer:

letterheady:

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1946 | Source

A sheet of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal stationery; a much larger version of which is here. His studio letterhead has been featured on Letterheady previously. 

MY WORD. 

stopthesnow:

Alpine Architecture: Crystal House - Bruno Taut 1919

architizer:

Michael Graves’ Hanselmann House, in Fort Wayne, Indiana (1967), is for sale for $279,900. More Architecture For Sale.

sadburro:

Grand Cosmo

Steven Millhauser

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chazhuttonsfsm:

Love a good operable facade…

This one’s by Portuguese studio dIONISO LAB  in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal,

(via fuckyesbuildings)

marc-james:

archalisa:

chazhuttonsfsm:

This was taken in the good old days, before you can ‘pan’ in Autocad, and working on a big plan meant laying around on a table on a nice looking cushion. Some people think computers made architecture offices faster, more efficient and generally better – but after seeing this photo, I’ve realised those people are very wrong.

I want to work like this! Screw sitting in front of a computer all day.

constant napping if i was found doing this. but this is awesome.

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drawingarchitecture:

Peter Cook, Design for Sleektower and Veranda Tower, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1984
Print, coloured (101 x 73.5 cm)

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I saw Peter Cook at the Architectural Association on friday .. so inspirational.