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Architecture, design, history, and photography as acts of provocation, investigation, and agency. Ryan Panos M.Arch @ryanpanos

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Architecture Today Is “Pure Shit” | Via

Gehry has become a little more crotchety in recent years, but things were going as well as could be expected, until a reporter asked this: "How do you answer to those who accuse you of practicing showy architecture?“

The crowd fell silent as the Great Gehry replied by slowly curling his hand into a fist and extending his middle finger towards the sky. The moderator asked for the next question. But Gehry was not finished, according to El Mundo (translated back into English by our own Jesus Diaz):

"Let me tell you one thing. In this world we are living in, 98 percent of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit. There’s no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else. They are damn buildings and that’s it. Once in a while, however, there’s a small group of people who does something special. Very few. But good god, leave us alone! We are dedicated to our work. I don’t ask for work. I don’t have a publicist. I’m not waiting for anyone to call me. I work with clients who respect the art of architecture. Therefore, please don’t ask questions as stupid as that one.”

This was followed by a long, uncomfortable silence, according to the report.

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The world of architecture is bit less bright today.

RIP - Frank O. Gehry 1929 - 2025

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It's my 17 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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KAU Gymnasium, Brussels - URA Architects

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BNA | James Gilleard

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Aftermath | Øystein Sture Aspelund

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Large-Scale Disinfection Efforts Against Coronavirus | Via

As health workers and governments around the world work to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, large-scale disinfection efforts are becoming commonplace. Using methods ranging from simple hand-wiping to mobile spray cannons, workers and volunteers are attempting to halt the transfer of the virus by touch. While there are questions about the efficacy of some of the broader spraying tactics, disinfecting frequently-touched surfaces can help stop the spread of the virus. Collected here, images of recent efforts in Iran, China, Italy, South Korea, and more. 

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Labyrinth | Gijs Van Vaerenbergh | Via

A kilometer of steel corridors were constructed to form a mechanical-looking maze at a former coal mine in the industrial city of Genk in Belgium. Titled ‘The Labyrinth’, the installation was created to be a spatial experience by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, a collaboration between Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh.

The structure is made from 186 tons of steel, with half-a-centimeter-thick rusted plates utilized as its walls. The idea was conceived of based on the architects’ interest in fundamental architectural structures in public spaces; previous site-specific works by the duo have their foundations in typologies for gates, bridges, walls, and domes. For ‘The Labyrinth’, the pair were confronted with an artificial, large-scale site—one that “wasn’t very welcoming to make an installation,” they admit. “We therefore chose to build an installation that was directed inwards, and dealt more strongly with space and one’s relation to it.” Constructing a labyrinth seemed to provide the most reasonable archetype for this experience. “In a way, this is an essential form of architecture, which is only composed of walls,” they say. Various openings and perspectives throughout the maze permit an ever-changing relationship with the surrounding urban environment.

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F*ck Context ? Doubt Context ! | Thomas Paturet

This first series, of an ongoing research, aims at mixing old and new, disturbing our too familiar reality in order to accentuate faults and opportunities. The dissensus that emerges can be tragic, comic at times, but it can also be a strong statement : the architecture that demonstrates as insufficient what is presented to us as the only possible reality begins to invent the future. It cannot change the world, but it can help us awake to the necessity to doubt it and maybe, change it.

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Hi do you have any other forms of social media I could follow, an instagram perhaps?

Hi @kikkomans 

No Instagram, I have a twitter @ryanpanos​ but mainly my posts on here are ported over. 

This is where I collect ideas.

RP

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Seashore Library | Vector Architects | Via

At that moment, we envision the future library should also be quietly sitting on the seashore. From outside, it looks like a weathered rock that is pure and solid; but inside, what it contains is the rich feelings and experiences. When walking into the space, one starts to feel the light, breezes, and sound of the ocean. What comes after the perception is the unique spiritual linkage between each individual and the sea. In here, everyone can slow down the usual pace, and unfold the feeling of distant and loneliness different from the city life.

The design began with section. The library houses a reading area, a meditation space, activity room, a drinking bar and a resting area. According to each space, we establish distinctive relationship between space and the ocean; define how light and wind enters into each room.

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MIES.INTERPRET | Thomas Paturet

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Industrial Landscapes 01 | Jan Stel

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Wall of Sound -  The Grateful Dead | Via

Weighed over 70 tons, comprise dozens and then hundreds of amps, speakers, subwoofers, and tweeters, stand over three-stories tall and stretch nearly 100 feet wide. Its name could only be the “Wall of Sound”.

The Wall of Sound was an enormous public address system designed specifically for the Grateful Dead’s live performances in 1974. It was the creation of audio engineer Owsley “Bear” Stanley. The Grateful Dead gave the sneak peek of the Wall of Sound on February 9, 1973 at Stanford University’s Maples Pavilion but it was on March 23, 1974 when they debuted the completed system during their tour stop at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California.

After got out of prison in late 1972, Stanley, Dan Healy and Mark Raizene of the Grateful Dead’s sound crew, in collaboration with Ron Wickersham, Rick Turner, and John Curl of Alembic, combined six independent sound systems using eleven separate channels, in an effort to deliver high-quality sound to audiences. Vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, and piano each had their own channel and set of speakers.

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Axonometric Realism | Beate Gütschow | Socks Studio

Beate Gütschow is a German contemporary artist who works primarily through photography. In her work, she analyses the complex and ever-changing relationships between perception, representation and reality.

For her series HC, Hortus Conclusus, she delved into the subject of “Enclosed gardens,” a recurring iconographic motif in Renaissance and Medieval paintings which would depict an idyllic scene contained in the space of a fenced or walled green space inaccessible to an exterior public.

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When Everyone Stays Home: Empty Public Spaces During Coronavirus | Via

In cities and regions hard-hit by the coronavirus crisis, quarantine measures and self-isolation efforts have left many public spaces deserted. Classrooms, plazas, malls, sports venues, cafes, houses of worship, and tourist destinations appear eerily empty as people stay home, cancel plans, and await further news.

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Churches of Rome | Maciej Leszczynski

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30 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1989 | Via

Three decades ago, a number of uprisings took place around the world, with unhappy citizens taking to the streets—and in some cases, taking up arms—to try to change or remove their governments. A student-led pro-democracy demonstration in China’s Tiananmen Square was violently crushed in June, while hundreds of thousands of anti-Communist protesters in Czechoslovakia were able to bring about a nonviolent “Velvet Revolution.” It was also the year of the Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California, the inauguration of President George H. W. Bush, the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and much more. Photographers were also busy documenting the lives of Harrison Ford, Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs, Menudo, and many others. Take a step into a visual time capsule now, for a brief look at the year 1989.