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// Architecture

New MFO Park

By Burckhardt + Partner

Collaboration with Raderschall Landscape Architects

Photos courtesy of Burckhardt + Partner & Wikipedia

[subtilitas]

Paulo Mendes da Rocha - Casa Gerassi, São Paulo 1990. The awning shutter detail is one of my favorites. Via, Photos (C) Pedro Kok, Fernando Stankuns.

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Vivian Maier, a nanny who took photos as a hobby, became widely celebrated only after her death. Rose Lichter-Marck explores a documentary on her life, and the problem with telling stories of difficult women: http://nyr.kr/1l3rFsz

Above: New York City, January 26, 1955. Photograph © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection/Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery.

[nevver]

All Trains

[newyorker]

An undervalued photographer for most of his life, Saul Leiter quietly amassed a body of work that has only recently begun receiving the credit it deserves. Take a look at a selection of his work: http://nyr.kr/1i8QWyN

Above: “Deborah at Tante Esther’s, c. 1947” Photograph by Saul Leiter, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York/Steidl

[artruby]

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, (1984-1991). 

[ryanpanos]

The Tundra Lodge

The Tundra Lodge, located on the subarctic tundra outside the small Canadian frontier town of Churchill, Manitoba, is a unique custom rolling hotel that is placed in an area of high polar bear density at the beginning of each polar bear season, which runs from October through November. The lodge has 32 rooms. Each room is a single compartment similar to sleeping quarters on a train with either an upper or lower berth.

[ryanpanos]

Reflexionen by Matthias Heiderich

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[subtilitas]

Lisa Moffit - Limekiln Line house, Ontario 2011. Via, photos (C) Shai Gil, Derek Shapton.

[arkaworks]

Aerial photograph of Kastrup Bathing Platform

[aredotna]

Check Out Iwan Baan’s Amazing Architectural Photography!

Dutch photographer Iwan Baan has been at the forefront of architectural photography since 2005, when he documented both OMA’s CCTV tower and Herzog and de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium in Beijing. Honored with the Architizer A+ Relevance Award, presented by New Museum director Lisa Phillips, Iwan Baan is among the most talented architectural photographers working today. His art lies not only in capturing the building as an object, or in mastering composition, but also in capturing the urban context and human life both within and beyond his subjects’ walls. Read more!

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Kastrup Sjøbad - White Architects

[ryanpanos]

Rooftop Racetrack: 1928 via Retronaut

“The Lingotto building, Turin, Italy, once housed a  Fiat factory. Built between 1916 and 1923, the design had five floors, raw materials going in at the ground floor, and cars built on a line that went up through the building. Finished cars emerged at rooftop level, where there was a rooftop test track. It was the largest car factory in the world at the time. Le Corbusier called it “one of the most impressive sights in industry”, and “a guideline for town planning”.”

[archiveofaffinities]

Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, 375 Park Avenue, New York, New York, 1959

[ryanpanos]

World’s Biggest Rubber Duck Floats in Hong Kong via MMM

On May 2nd, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s huge inflatable sculpture, called Rubber Duck, will officially debut, sailing into Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. Already, it’s been causing quite a stir as curious locals have watched it inflate in a shipyard in Tsing Yi. Hofman’s famous duck has floated in waters around the world, in cities like Sydney, Osaka, and Sao Paolo, but this is the very first time it has ever been in Hong Kong.

[b22-design]

Arne Jacobsen - SAS House -  Copenhagen - 1960

[architectureofdoom]

El Peine del Viento (Wind Comb), San Sebastian, Eduardo Chillida/Luis Peña Ganchegui, 1970s