Heritage land

A collection of amazing landscapes, cities, buildings and objects that we shouldn't forget.

[timelessmegastar]

Elizabeth Taylor’s films in the 1950′s (II)

[alfiusdebux]

Giovanni Guerrini, Ernesto Bruno Lapadula and Mario Romano. Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, 1943  [source]

[curiousbotanicals]

A vertical forest is expected to be completed this year in Milan. There are two tower apartment complexes which contain a total of 400 residential units. The facade of the buildings will be covered with 730 trees, 5,000 shrubs, and 11,000 perennial plants. It is expected to have the same ecological impact as 10,000 square meters of forest.

Aside from fighting smog and producing oxygen, the foliage is expected to provide insulation to the residential units.

[elfgrove]

It’ll be really cool to see how these trees grow in order to maximize access to sun, water, and nutrients. Also, a step towards a sci-fi solar punk future – I’m in.

[patrickat]

I sure hope the structural engineers planned for the buildings to increase in mass as the trees grow.

[animatedamerican]

Well, or else for maintenance labor to keep the trees rigorously trimmed to prevent too much increase in mass.  Or both?  (The wikipedia article says the engineering team consulted botanists and horticulturists in planning how much weight the buildings could bear, so it seems likely that the fact that trees grow would have come up.)

This is a pretty cool idea regardless and I hope they get it right.  I wonder if anyone will do anything like this in New York.

[speciesofleastconcern]

This falls in the “I really hope they do it but I’ll believe it when I see it” category for me.

[paintmeahero]

It’s been up for 2 years, inaugurated in October 2014, and still going strong. It’s won multiple awards. 

Here they are building it.

Bosco Gardeners hang around outside the building.

Change of Seasons…

And a view from the place itself. 

[archatlas]

Te Tuhirangi Contour at Gibbs Farm Richard Serra

Serra’s 56 steel plates lean out by 11 degrees from the vertical and trace a single contour line across the land in a way that, in the artist’s words, “collects the volume of the land.” The work is a hallmark of the strong relationships formed between collector and artist. Serra says of meeting Gibbs, “The first thing he said to me was ‘I’ve just been to Storm King [which has Serra’s Schunnemunk Fork 1990-91] and I want a more significant piece than that. I don’t want any wimpy piece in the landscape.’”

Images and text via Gibbs Farm

[comicbookcovers]

Weird War Tales #94, December 1980, cover by Joe Kubert

[jeanne-crains]

A race film masterpost in honor of Black History Month. The “race film” was a film genre which existed in the United States between about 1915 and 1950. It consisted of films produced for an all-black audience, featuring all-black casts. Approximately five hundred race films were produced, however less than one hundred have survived to this day.  [x]

Swing! (1938)

The Black Network (1939)

The Scar of Shame (1929)

Murder in Harlem (1935)

Hallelujah! (1929)

Lying Lips (1939)

Gang War (1940)

Body and Soul (1925)

Miracle in Harlem (1948)

Murder on Lenox Ave (1941)

Sepia Cinderella (1947)

Paradise in Harlem (1939)

The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)

The Blood of Jesus (1941)

Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A (1946)

Juke Joint (1947)

Where’s my Man To-Nite (1943)

Broken Strings (1940)

Boy! What a Girl! (1946)

Hi-De-Ho (1947)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

Two-gun Man from Harlem (1938)

Moon Over Harlem (1939)

Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947)

Ann Lucasta (1959)

The Duke is Tops (1938)

Stormy Weather (1943)

Lucky Ghost (1942)

The Girl from Chicago (1942)

Within Our Gates (1920)

Go Down, Death! (1944)

Harlem Rides the Range (1939)

Boarding House Blues (1948)

The Girl in Room 20 (1946)

The Bronze Buckaroo (1939)

Double Deal (1939)

Beware (1946)

[archatlas]

Penthouse Apartment in Bielefeld Architects Wannenmacher + Möller GmbH

[blackandwhitehistory]

Clark Gable in The Call of the Wild, 1935.

[mic88]

[inzpired]

Get daily design inspiration at inzpired.tumblr.com … then go make something fucking awesome.

[20cmodern]

“Delivered the four #hanswegner chairs back to their owner on Saturday. I am thinking I should finally get to work weaving a new seat back for my #fredrikkayser rocking chair. #norwegiandesign #postwarmodern” by @thomnem on Instagram http://ift.tt/1SV6hdr

[mizenscen-blog]

Crime Without Passion (The Furies), 1934.  Dir. Slavko Vorkapich.

[filmcigarettes-blog]

Kitty March: Who do you think you are? My guardian angel?

Millie Ray: Not me, honey. I lost those wings a long time ago.

Scarlet Street | 1945

Directed by Fritz Lang

[foreignmovieposters]

Scarlet Street (1945). Italian poster.

[artdecodude]

Photo by Daniel Jeffries (2009).Terra Cotta detail from Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Daniel has taken many Art Deco photos around the Tulsa area: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dscott28604/tags/artdeco/

[plastolux]

Interior stylist Martina Lucatelli#mid century, #architecture, #MCM, #modern, #design, #modernism

[comicsoul]

[wehadfacesthen]

Marlene Dietrich, 1935

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

John Williams/Shamanmoon