12/6/2013
Living Room of Marcel Breuer’s house in Lincoln, MA, 1939. Calder mobile included. Photo: Ezra Stoller.
(via design-is-fine)
06/6/2013
Pereira and Luckman’s 1952 design for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) called for a glass-enclosed central terminal, with a world map etched on the central column. Their original plan died because the city’s Building Department found it too radical, the cost of air-conditioning would have been exorbitant and the airlines wanted their own individual terminals.
(Source: wandrlust)
02/6/2013
Unesco Headquarter, Paris, Breuer-Nervi-Zehrfuss Architectes, 1955-58. (Entrance with Henry Moore sculpture)
(via design-is-fine)
15/3/2013
Parisian architectural firm Atelier Zündel Cristea wants to transform an abandoned Battersea Power Station in London into a museum encircled by a roller coaster track. The proposal, which took first prize in the ArchTriumph Museum of Architecture competition, would revitalize the area while still preserving the history of the building, which has been out of use since its decommission in 1983.
whoah!
(Source: thedailywhat)
19/9/2012
fuckyeahbrutalism: Eros House, Catford, London, 1960-63
(Owen Luder Partnership)
28/5/2012
Holyoke Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-65
(J.L. Sert)
(Source: fuckyeahbrutalism)
08/5/2012
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07/5/2012
Schlesische Strasse, Berlin, architect Alvaro Siza
(via anxietiesandstrategies)
28/3/2012
minusmanhattan: Archipelago Cinema by architect Ole Scheeren.
The temporary floating cinema nestled in the middle of a lagoon was constructed for the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi film festival in Thailand.
26/1/2012
Yesterday I went for a walk along Karl-Marx-Allee. I’m pretty shocked that it’s taken me this long to discover it. Perhaps my new favourite street. I’d ventured along to the International Kino before (and spent a few wonderful hours inside the most gorgeous cinema in the world) but never beyond Straussberger Platz to discover the main run of what used to be Stalinallee, that runs down to Frankfurter Tor.
This whole boulevard emerged out of what was the most flattened part of Berlin after WW2. In 1952, the new GDR devoted the stretch of road over to a 13 year construction project aimed at delivering a magnificent monument to East German power and, architecturally, the Socialist Classicism of the Soviet Union. It’s huge, over 2km long and really wide - perfect for parades, and protests.
Incredible ceramic clad high-rises bank you in. Under the thousands of apartments built ‘for the workers’ are little shopping boulevards, cafes, and a museum dedicated to computer gaming. A great cafe, that transports you back to the 60s when you enter, (Cafe Sibyle) also houses a museum to the history of the street, which you can recover from with the help of their amazing Käsekuchen and a cup of strong coffee.
The Cafe Moskau, which used to be a restaurant and unofficial playground for East Germany’s SED party elites, is now a business venue, and currently housing rails of clothing for fashion week. But my favourite detail is the sculpture of a Sputnik thrusting upwards from the corner above the entrance. During the 60s, when this building was designed and erected, the Soviets were putting the first man made satellites into orbit.
And it rewards night-time visiting, when the beautiful street lamps lend the boulevard a warm, fire-like glow.
25/1/2012
Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders (1987)
watched it only recently for the first time, but at a cinema.
i adored it. so bitterweet to recognize (or not) areas of Berlin, how they were before the wall fall.
(via backtotheeighties)
18/12/2011
Apartments, Piazzale Aquileia, Milan, Italy, 1964-65 (Vico Magistretti)
Via Lipari actually, but nice find! :-)
(Source: fuckyeahbrutalism)
04/12/2011
Affonso Eduardo Reidy walking up the sprial stair of his Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janero while under construction in 1953 (via)
(Source: subtilitas, via superfuffa)
01/12/2011
Azzedine Alaia rents out three apartments next door to his atelier, at 5 Rue de Moussy in Paris. Converted from a loft in a traditional 17th century building, the three 1,100-square-foot apartments (one one-bedroom, two two-bedrooms) are furnished with Jean Prouve, Marc Newson, and Arne Jacobsen pieces from Alaia’s private collection.
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