Architecture

Minangkabau paddy houses, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 1950s

Casa Álvarez

Mexico City

1971 - 1975

Augustín Hernández

The Green Cape Hotel, Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 1973

It should be obvious by now that I have a weakness for monumental neo-classicism.😎

Étienne-Louis Boullée's, Deuxieme projet pour la Bibliothèque du Roi (Second project for a Royal Library), 1785.

I have always been transfixed by the work of the French Visionary Architects of the Enlightenment. Let's start with Étienne-Louis Boullée's Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton, 1784.

Chichén Itzá

Mexico

I was transported by the brilliant TV production of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited in the early '80s. The scene of Lord Marchmain's funeral procession approaching Hawksmoor's severe and somber Mausoleum at Castle Howard, (in Yorkshire, an estate Bill writes about visiting often), was one of the most influential images of my impending architectural career.

St George's Bloomsbury (1716–1731)

St. Mary, Woolnoth, 1716-23

To throw in some more, I was captivated the first time I saw images on Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches in London projected on a screen in a dark lecture hall. They were the first buildings I went to see went I first went to London. Christchurch, Spitalfields, 1714-29

A sad loss; not a brilliant building, but an interesting one and certainly evocative of a time when Modernity was somehting to look forward to rather than fear. I like the way idt addresses the corner. It's a good, though not contextual building.

Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen, Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, 1927-40

Rotonde de la Villette, Paris, Claude-Nicholas Ledoux, 1784-1788

Buqshan Khaila Hotel, Hadramaut, Yemen

The Rainbow - Hossain Nikzad Amoli

Eight-hundred-year-old cave dwelling, Kandovan, Iran

Following months of uncertainties and preservation attempts, Kisho Kurokawa’s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower will be demolished on 12 April 2022.

London Aquatics Centre

The former Ministry of Highway Construction of the Georgian SSR building is located in Tbilisi, Georgia. It was designed by architects George Chakhava and Zurab Jalaghania and built in 1975. The engineer was Temur Tkhilava. This 18-storey building was acquired by the Bank of Georgia in 2007. (c) BACU

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Hugh Kaptur Palm Springs Mid Century Modern Design

Terunobu Fujimori - Takasugi-an (too-tall tea house), Chino 2004. The tea house follows the Japanese tradition of tea masters controlling the design and construction of their tea houses, as Fujimori built the project for his own use on a family owned parcel of land. The tea room is supported by three chestnut trees, and is only accessible from free standing ladders. The organic form is consistent with the architect’s interest in more primitive, natural methods of design and construction. Via and more.

Olavinlinna

Three-tower castle

Savonlinna, Finland

Built in the 15th century

Mukteshvara Temple, Bhubaneshvara, India

L'Homme de Rio (That Man From Rio, 1964), directed by Philippe de Broca, starring beloved Nouvelle Vague celebutante Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac. With a hero in pastiche of a French James Bond, the film's city-trotting script was directly inspired by Hergé's The Adventures of Tin Tin, which subsequently inspired the Indiana Jones saga. (Spielberg admitted!)

Most notable is the film's wide-spanning frames, set upon architect Oscar Niemeyer's futurist city Brasília. The UNESCO city was still being built during filming in 1962, creating an "accidental" and opportune film set of eerie alienation and surrealist aesthetic.

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Bocconi University (Italy) – Grafton Architects

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Turkey’s $200 Million Disney-Inspired Ghost Town

Burj Al Babas was a project aimed to create a thermal resort town to attract Arab investors. What’s left of it now is a ghost town of over 500 unfinished Disney castle-themed houses in central Turkey.

Reiyūkai Shakaden Temple – Tokyo, Japan

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Casa Beretta (1967-75) in Brusson, Italy, by Mario Galvagni

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Megatron, Alconbury

Build in 1990, refitted as a McDonald’s in 1993.

Demolished in 2008.

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Hundertwasser Haus, 3rd district, the Löwengasse, Vienna.

Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum, in Dornach, Switzerland. (The large building in the background).

Pan Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, built 18 May 1935.

Architects Walter Wurdeman, Charles F Plummer & Welton Becket.

Art Deco.

Here's one of my architectural graphics

A house here in Kansas City, made entirely of shipping containers.

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Weronika Dudka

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Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain. Built in 1877, it was remodelled in the Barcelona manifestation of Art Nouveau, modernisme, by Antoni Gaudí in 1904.

Passeig de Gràcia, 43, 08007 Barcelona, Spain

British Pavilion, Expo 70, Osaka, Japan 1970

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Virtual cyberpunk lego (built with Magicavoxel software):

Wow , those are great. I can just imagine one of these parked around the back

Steve Hadeka

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