#monumental scale

[miamaimania]

Bull Sculpture, Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 BCE) ◉▮

[archtechposts]

The geometric brutalism of Louis Khan:

1. Arts United Center Indiana, USA 1961 2. Esherick House Pennsylvania, USA 1961 3. Phillips Exeter Academy Library New Hampshire, USA 1972 4. Bangladesh National Parliament Dhaka 1961

[archtechposts]

Brutalist Symmetries and Balance- The architecture of Mario Botta

[oranjeflamingo]

The Monumental Scale of Palazzo Strozzi

The Monumental Scale of Palazzo Strozzi

I’ve lived in New York City, surrounded by skyscrapers. The scale of the buildings is truly impressive as you see them towering overhead, forming narrow canyons as you walk among them. But in many other parts of the US, it’s the outward scale of the size of cities, rather than the upward scale of tall structures, that really stands out. In Europe, the historic city centers may not take that long…

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Monumental scale in Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam, dir.)

[arqsa]

I was waiting…. by Kala_