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Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lights up in solidarity with Israeli terror victims.

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The former Union Bank of Canada at Danforth & Pape, Toronto (1913).

#architecture #beautiful #beaux arts #archilovers #architektura #arquitectura

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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

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VENEZIA !

Architecture in Ithaca, New York

#ithaca #cornell #architecture #modern architecture #victorian architecture #beaux arts

Toronto towers by HPA Architects. 1. Five St. Joseph (MOD Developments). 2. One Bloor (Great Gulf)

#modern architecture #modernism #tall buildings #yongestreet #toronto

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Today marks the 72nd anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Pictured here: American combat engineers eat a meal atop boxes of ammunition stockpiled for the impending D-Day invasion, May 1944. (Frank Scherschel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #DDay #thisweekinLIFE

Detroit 1900's. The People's State Bank at Fort and Shelby by McKim, Mead & White (still standing).

#detroit #architecture #mckim mead & white #beaux arts

Excerpts from “100 Glimpses of Toronto” (1909)

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"Notable Tall Buildings of the World" from the 1896 Rand McNally Atlas. Tallest: the Eiffel Tower at 1000 feet.

#tall buildings #atlas

Former Bank of British North America, Yonge & Wellington, Toronto, 1875.

#architecture #neoclassicism #beautiful #beaux arts #victorian architecture #heritage #facade #toronto architecture

Bank of Montreal, Yonge & Front, Toronto, 1885

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An old store on the NW corner of Spadina and Nassau in Toronto is currently being renovated, revealing the signage from over 100 years ago: the old Cut Rate Drug Store, shown in the old photo from the 1910's.

#toronto #kensington market #then and now #spadina #vintage photography #street photography

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Hill Street, Los Angeles, 1931

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Open Borders MAD architects

From the architects:

“Architects usually creates borders by defining spaces - what is inside and outside, what is nature and the artificial – but today’s society already has too many invisible borders. As architects we should instead focus on how can we blur those borders and encourage interaction across them” - Ma Yansong

Tuesday Apr. 12th, Milan - MAD Architects creates a translucent installation for the 2016 Milan Design Week in the traditional Cortile d’Onore courtyard of Università degli Studi di Milano. The installation is a part of the “Open Borders” exhibition, curated by the Italian magazine Interni. MAD’s contribution, entitled “Invisible Border”, alters the perception of space.

The installation represents a sculptural gesture that is inserted to break the balance of the Cortile d’Onore and at the same time establish a new shelter, between the façade and the courtyard, for people to engage in discussions or just contemplate the sky through the canopy. The result is an installation, inspired by natural flow of wind and water, which extends the physical and conceptual threshold of a boarder.

Images and text via MAD architects