Catrina Stewart

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Alphonse Bertillon ear forensic studies

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Models of an imagined city by Bodys Isek Kingelez from Congo

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Remmelin’s Flap Anatomy 

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Eric Mendelsohn - Einstein Tower

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Isothermal Laboratories (1961) in Berlin, Germany, by Horst Welser

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The well loved entrance to the grand Namba Dotonbori Hotel in Osaka, Japan

Caryatids - the Japanese way

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Pneumatic cathedrals by Architects of Air 

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Aldo Rossi - Theatre of the World, Venice 

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Geopark Playground by Helen + Hard AS, Norway

At Geopark, a public playground built in Stavanger, Norway’s oil capital. All the structures are made using recycled materials from the oil industry which are transformed into objects of play. Bright orange buoys, salvaged pipelines, and recycled drilling platforms are scattered across the landscape forming bike ramps and interactive play spaces. 

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A game of Planning - Future residents of Tinggården, Herfølge, Denmark. 1973

The local community were invited to take part in the democratic process of planning. 

“Tinggården is a cohousing settlement to the southwest of Copenhagen, the result of a 1971 competition organized by the Danish Ministry of Housing. Brochures highlighted the organization of its private dwellings in six family groups, each with 12-17 apartments of 4 different types. This intentional community, which devotes ten percent of its space to communal socializing and shared duties such as childcare, became an icon of Danish cohousing, a model of collaborative living that involves residents in the design process as well as in everyday management. Danish journalist Bodil Graae summoned architects to such experiments with her 1967 article “Every Child Should Have a Hundred Parents.” Pioneered by Vandkunsten among others, Danish cohousing is still influential all over the world, from the Netherlands to Canada, Australia, and beyond.” Moma, ‘Century of the Child’

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A brilliant little set of architectural building blocks from Archiquest - you can get them in all different styles!

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Masanori Umeda’s stunning animal like chairs he designed for Memphis

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Desk lamp by Martine Bedine - Memphis

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Melt by STORE

“MELT was a free one-day workshop run by three STORE associates, Christopher Burman, Harry Lawson and Freddy Tuppen at One Thoresby Street, Nottingham. Participants explored experimental, low-fi techniques such as pewter casting and whittling to build their own cooking utensils. A wide array of imaginative implements were created such as apple corers, aubergine scorers, pineapple slicers, mushroom roasters and a functioning knife!

All the utensils were put to good use during the BBQ at the end of the workshop when the participants of the workshop catered for seventy local residents and studio members.”

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Hello House by OOF! Architects

“The Hello House is a renovation and extension of a Victorian shophouse to accomodate a family home and artist's studio. The modest but beautiful front rooms were refreshed and its dysfunctional old back rooms demolished and replaced with new spaces more suitable for 21st century life. The Hello wall, designed in collaboration with artist Rose Nolan, offers to start a conversation with locals while continuing the architectural story of the area's 19th century heritage buildings, 60s and 70s brick flats and small warehouses. The wall allows separate worlds to exist happily side by side with a cheerful public face that gives nothing away about the life behind. Inside, the house adjusts to the needs and moods of its residents – a cosy retreat in winter or an airy pavilion in summer – all secret from the outside world.”

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The transformation of a large country house from cosy old backwater into an ultra-trendy Postmodern, NYC-star-interior-designer-concept contemporary home -and the ensuing horror of the still resident ghosts of the previous owners- forms a central thread around which the film Beetlejuice weaves its manic energies.

Images from this blog post, except for the first image which is from here, although they are all from the film by Tim Burton

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Gaetano Pesce, Project for a Residential Building, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1987