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[germanpostwarmodern]

Extension (1966-69) of the Novo Pharmaceuticals Factory in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Arne Jacobsen

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Inside the great hall at Longleat House, England

[poeksyt]

Weaving by Otti Berger

[tobebuild]

Caja Granada Savings Bank, Granada Alberto Campo Baeza 2001

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Construction design for the reading room of a library, France

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Section of a proposed church, New york City

[exkurse]

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The Poultry Cross, Salisbury

[sosbrutalism]

A great new set of images of Giancarlo de Carlo’s masterpiece in Urbino: Giancarlo De Carlo: Collegio del Colle, Urbino, Italy, 1962–1966 Photos: Francesco Di Bella (CC BY 3.0)

[melissem]

from Eastern Promises (2009)

Patrick Morarescu

[archimaps]

[b22-design]

Hans Poelzig - The foyer of the Schauspielhaus - Berlin

[chazhuttonsfsm]

This is the SESC Pompéia by Lina Bo Bardi (1977), which I just saw over at Victor’s blog.

“With this steel barrel factory/”culture factory” conversion, Lina Bo Bardi revolutionized São Paulo’s attitude to its obsolete industrial estates.

Between 1977 and 1986, the old brick sheds were transformed into exhibition spaces, a library and a series of workshops. The SESC Pompéia also features a curious and interesting theater (home to many superb concerts), as well as a choperia the serves up a collective lunch alongside inexpensive but equally delicious portions of beer and live Brazilian music.

Bo Bardi also built two new buildings that are connected to the factory by footbridges. These are entirely made from rough concrete—alleviated by amoeba-shaped windows the architect referred to as “Spanish civil war holes”—and contain sports facilities like football fields, a swimming pool and a solarium. Both the “Spanish civil war holes” and the general redesign of the old factory exemplify “muxarabi”, a postmodern remix of colonial-style elements that foregrounds references to Brazilian popular culture.” (words from here)

I also like this old photo of it with everyone sun baking and hanging out in front of it.

[vjeranski]

Aitor Frias & Cecilia Jimenez The Clay and the Potter, 2014

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Ring, 1700s, with the inscription, “Many are the stars i see but in my eye no star like thee.”

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Harry Gruyaert

[darquitectura]

Mies Van der Rohe , The Toronto-Dominion Centre (1963-69) 

Photo:  Balthazar Korab

[quotemadness]

“I promise you, no one judges me more harshly than I do myself; I caused a brilliant wreckage. Some say I fell from grace; they’re being kind. I didn’t fall – I dove.”

— Sue Monk Kidd