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TME — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:26:57 +0000

The Rainbow Place /where heritage and tradition grew

Above dark clouds, grey skies and sombre haze,
Upon this shade and shelter the warm sun gleams.

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TME — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:20:05 +0000

volcano in the city…

Basque Health Department by Coll-Barreu Arquitectos

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TME — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:22:38 +0000

nature of reality
Making the nature scene. Waiting for the day.

drawings by Masahiko Yendo

and:

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TME — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:53:27 +0000

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.

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TME — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:57:06 +0000

the latest pictures from The Beekman Tower in Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, designed by architect Frank Gehry.

Great.

Frank Gehry

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TME — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:02:20 +0000

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.

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TME — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:35:24 +0000

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:

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TME — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:43:11 +0000

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:

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TME — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:34:56 +0000

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!!

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TME — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:21:50 +0000

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.