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Above dark clouds, grey skies and sombre haze,
Upon this shade and shelter the warm sun gleams.
Tag Archive for 'Megastructure'
The first time I saw it underground
Six deep feet below the street
It lit up all the fish like rain
And rained them down on me
The sky came crashing down
For a second that place was lost in space.
Artist Shuichi Nakano‘s “Searching for Paradise” paintings depict oversized animals towering over the urban sprawl.
the latest pictures from The Beekman Tower in Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, designed by architect Frank Gehry.
Great.
Frank Gehry
I’m cool, I’m hip, I’m fresh, I’m good /Steven Holl
Simmons Hall, Massachusetts, 2002
But how does that fit with his stupid watercolor sketches? Sold on the website.
I’m more like his older theoretical stuff. Any idea? THX.
skepticism/ whirling at the edge of chaos
Lee Bontecou’s work is an investigation of organic form with microscopic complexity and it’s very interesting when it’s close to technology and architecture.
She builds powerful space where the organic and the mechanical are folded, one into the other.
Lee Bontecou, 1931:
Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth
Did you ever stand in a Cavern's Mouth—
Widths out of the Sun—
And look—and shudder, and block your breath—
And deem to be alone
In such a place, what horror,
How Goblin it would be—
And fly, as 'twere pursuing you?
Then Loneliness—looks so—
Did you ever look in a Cannon's face—
Between whose Yellow eye—
And yours—the Judgment intervened—
The Question of "To die"—
Extemporizing in your ear
As cool as Satyr's Drums—
If you remember, and were saved—
It's liker so—it seems—
Emily Dickinson
Joseph Wright of Derby, Cavern near Naples, 1774
Joseph Wright of Derby, A grotto in the gulf of Salerno, Sunset 1780
Joseph Wright of Derby, Bridge through a Cavern, Moonlight 1791
erweitert am 04.12.2010:
The Transcendent City a wonderful movie by Richard Hardy. (klick the pic!)
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy has shared with dezeen his short film imagining an autonomous, artificially intelligent, sustainable city.
Amazing…great work!!
WAM Architects got a game to play its called house. hahaha.
The new Inntel hotel in Zaandam/NL
The structure is a lively stacking of various examples of traditional houses, ranging from a notary’s residence to a worker’s cottage.
To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you.
Will Insley, Utopist and Architect, New York
who knows more about Will?
Tear off the top, let your memory pop
its running, running, running, running away.
Margaret Bursa’s amazing and intensely colorful megastructure. Check out her website here.
once it’s done, it’s finished. and it’s not now but it was just then and it will be later. not now, just then and later. Yona Friedman, Architect.
