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The towers of Bologna. The original skyscraper city. There were once as many as 180 towers built by rich families in the city. Around 20 remain

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Midland Hotel roof terrace, early 1900s

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Absolute Zero

0 (Zero) Kelvin or −273.15 °C is commonly thought of as the lowest temperature possible. 

Kelvin, is therefore measured on a ratio scale, and Celsius on an interval scale.

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Neon-washed, 80′s in HD. Nathan Walsh cityscapes. 

Oil-painted using multiple reference images from multiple angles and perspectives.

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Coal miners houses with no windows to the street, c1937 by Bill Brandt.

Bleak. Not Quite Right. Sinister.

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La Fábrica by Ricardo Bofill.

Former cement factory.

Film set becomes reality. Fiction becomes reality. Brutalist’s Steam-punk becomes reality.

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Cafe Bongo, Tokyo, 1983 by Branson Coates Architecture.

Mixity, Abstract Collage, Theatre.

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Hiroshi Manabe. Japanese Illustrator

Stroll into Imagination.

Psycho-delic

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Exotic Landscape, 1908 by Henri Rousseau

A surreal dream, a half-remembered vision, a hazy memory of childhood, of illustrations from children’s books.

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Arktikum Museum and Science Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland, Claus Bonderup (with Søren Birch and Ellen Waade) 1992, annex (with Jan Lehtipalo) 1997

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Tishk Barzanji.

Digital art + some photography. “Isolation and Nostalgia”

Brutalism + Ricardo Bofill = ?

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Saul Steinberg.

Loose paper line drawing. Timeless and nostalgic.

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Passo Giau by Tomáš Šereda

A high mountain pass in the Dolomites, Northern Italy. 

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All Saints from the air, 1937

A grid created and broken // The omission of terrain.

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Airportraits.  © Mike Kelley

Amsterdam Schiphol, Polderbaan 18R

The 4th dimension captured.

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Segue no.24  © Bence Bakonyi

Concrete Forever.