Lottie Plumb

Seize the shark

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Photo by Wing Shya

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Li Yuchun by Wing Shya for Vogue Italia January 2013

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Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

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Syd Mead - Blade Runner

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Here's Why Hong Kong Has So Many Neon Signs

They may look like simple shop signs, but Hong Kong’s neon signage reveals the hidden depths of the city’s culture.

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Cinema Radio City in Tehran by Heydar Ghiaï-Chamlou [1967]. The façade exhibits the introduction of Googie design into Iran through its outlandish neon geometry. The entire of the project follows modernist principles through the exploration of balance between straight and curved forms. Unfortunately, the cinema suffered a fire and was shut down with its neon facade removed, remaining in abandoned central Tehran.

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Night House: Artist Cloaks Suburban Home Facade in Starry Skies

House painting is such time-consuming and meticulous work just to get a single color on a facade; perhaps next time you could clad your home in printed image of the night sky instead. For the Night…

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Gaychitecture: Architecture Conceived For the Gay Community

gay·chi·tec·ture: \ ?g?-k?-?tek-ch?r \ noun Definition: Architecture conceived and built for the gay community. The term was originally coined in June 2009 by Seattle Weekly reporter Brian Miller,...

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https://www.architecture.com/files/ribaprofessionalservices/practice/general/outinarchitectureflyer.pdf  https://www.outfrontonline.com/news/community-voices/stuff-gay-people-like-architecture/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275212471_Homonormative_architecture_queer_space_the_evolution_of_gay_bars_and_clubs_in_Montreal https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305951432_%27In_the_old_days_there_were_no_gays%27_-_democracy_social_change_and_media_representation_of_sexual_diversity https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249041143_All_hyped_up_and_no_place_to_go https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27246971_Geographies_of_Sexualities_Theory_Practices_and_Politics

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gay arch

http://queerchitectures.tumblr.com/  glass house http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/651/the-glass-house-as-gay-space-exploring-the-intersection-of-homosexuality-and-architecture http://www.3nta.com/6-projects-gay-architecture/

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Blogs to check out

http://www.buildingsarecool.com/ http://youngarchitect.com/ http://www.shoegnome.com/ http://www.architectowl.com/blog http://l-2-design.com/blog/ https://aremeghana.wordpress.com/ http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/house-garden/the-10-best-architecture-blogs-7912530.html http://unhappyhipsters.com/page/2

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Qatar's accidental vagina stadium is most gratifying | Holly Baxter

Holly Baxter: The resemblance of the Al-Wakrah World Cup stadium to the female genitalia can only be a good thing – sport and vaginas are not always such public bedfellows

http://gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-buildings-that-look-like-vaginas-1469082852 https://architektin.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/architecture-a-female-profession/ http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/21/opinion/la-oe-currid-halkett-women-in-academia-20120821 IAWA - http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/  Viginia Wolf, A Room Of Ones Own https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/chapter1.html Feminism at eating disorders- http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/707-penny-laurie/706-contemporary-feminism

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Profile

Since 1994 muf architecture/art has established a reputation for pioneering and innovative projects that address the social, spatial and economic infrastructures of the public realm. muf are specia...

MUF

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Ten Hot Spanish Architects

I chose this terrible title based on a male friend’s advice, of course. M., a dear Sevillan architect, argued that good architecture is always hot, regardless of the gender of its architect. …

Maria Langarita

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Reporting from which front? Aravena’s sexist opening panel

‘Meetings on Architecture’ gathered architects to discuss ‘Infrastructure’ at the opening of the 15th Architecture Biennale in Venice. A very prestigious panel indeed, but …