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[laclefdescoeurs]

Evening falls, 1916, Nikolay Dubovskoy

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[archatlas]

Chilean House in Los Lirios

These two houses designed by Smiljan Radic, of which there´s only one built, recall the houses of tenant farmers in the Chilean countryside: the existing walnut trees haven´t been touched, the outside has been denied thanks to a whitewashed perimeter wall. An inner courtyard with the possibility of being covered with an agricultural tarpaulin fixed to its wall to provide shade, an austere living room with bits of an exterior spread throughout the courtyard, a roof of painted untreated wood and bedrooms painted in bold colors.

[archatlas]

A Pavilion Between Trees in Victoria

Titled ‘A Pavilion Between Trees’, the addition to an existing home was designed by Australian practice Branch Studio Architects for a client with a need for a new master en-suite. the home, a 90’s built design executed by the clients themselves, exemplifies a markedly different architectural style that was not pursued with the new addition. Instead, the site and its many spaced out trees served as a starting point to create a semi-detached building that interacts with its environment, not only sparing any existing tree but allowing each one to become a point of interest and serve a function with the suite.  

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Acolhúas House in Guadalajara

From the architects SPRB arquitectos:

As if it were the case of a precious musical instrument, the house is a robust wrapping that develops around the position of a majestic Bösendorfer piano. The main spaces are related to both the central courtyard and the surrounding gardens, either for functional relationships or for comfort issues given the mild climate of Guadalajara.

Introverted to its neighbors, exploits its privileged position of contiguity to a public park. To the orthogonality of the plant, the section is contrasted with its different interior reliefs of the roofs in successive variations of scale, intimacy and hierarchy of spaces. An honest materiality has been intended, both in its construction systems and in its finishes.

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[archatlas]

So here's something i am really curious as a brazilian: How is Oscar Niemeyer's work perceived by foreign architects?

I can’t answer for all non-Brazilian architects, but for me, Niemeyer is one of the greats, and you can check out ARCHatlas’ (MANY) previous posts of his work here. His work is unique, sublime, sculptural, and colorful. How many architects have had the opportunity to create one of the great cities of the world from scratch and be able to impart such beauty to its core structures.

Here are some of my favorite Niemeyer projects:

Itamaraty Palace

National Congress

Centro Niemeyer

Alvorada Palace

Brasilia National Museum

Brasilia’s Cathedral

[mapsburgh]

Sauron > Trump

I keep seeing these memes comparing Trump to Sauron, but I think that comparison is pretty unfair to Sauron. Consider:

- He has thousands of years of experience in government as Lord of Mordor. - He always pays his contractors all of the rings that he owes them. - He remained faithful to Morgoth even after he got thrown into the Outer Dark – he never traded him in for a younger, prettier dark lord. - He doesn’t want to ban immigration from Harad. - His university in Eregion wasn’t a fraud – Celebrimbor learned some actual ring-lore there. - He has never gotten on the Palantir at 3 am because Faramir insulted him or to tell everyone to watch Galadriel’s sex tape. - He was wounded in battle with Isildur, so he actually earned that Purple Heart. - When he was defeated, his spirit departed from Barad-Dur. He didn’t go around complaining that Frodo’s quest was rigged. - When he met Luthien, he didn’t just start kissing her without her consent, even though he’s a celebrity and she was a total 10. - He was a great poet – he even won a song battle with Finrod Felagund. Just imagine if Trump tried to write the ring poem:

The Elves, they’ve got three rings. Three rings, and I don’t know where they are. I don’t. Maybe Crooked Elrond – I call him Crooked Elrond, because you’ve never seen a more crooked Elf in all of your life – I bet he has one. And maybe Galadriel too. Such a nasty woman.

And the Dwarves. They’re rapists, they’re drug dealers, and some of them I assume are good people. They’re always down there in their halls of stone, working on something, going bing-bing- bong-bing, bing-bong, bing. They’ve got seven rings. Seven whole rings, do you believe that. And they’re some real bad hombres. I’m going to build a wall around Moria, and I’m going to make Durin’s Folk pay for it.

Now some people say that Men, they all die. I mean, that’s what they’re saying. Men are mortal. They sound like a lot of losers to me. “Oh look at me, I’m a mortal Man, and I’m going to die eventually no matter what.” Sad! I tell you what, though, folks. I’m going to give them nine rings. People call me Annatar, the bringer of gifts. Because handing out rings, it’s what I do. It’s what I do.

Now I have the One Ring. And I gotta tell you, this is the best ring. Absolutely the best. Its power is just yuge. You’ve never seen a ring like this. Solid gold, and personally inscribed by me with all the best words. And I’m gonna take this ring, and I’m going to bring them all. And then I’m going to bind them. I’m going to bring them all to Mordor. We’ve got shadows here, we’ve got darkness, we’ve got everything. It’s just the classiest place you’ve ever seen. And we’re going to Make Mordor Great Again!

[archatlas]

Brasilia

Ian Allen series about Brasilia, a capital created ex nihilo in the centre of Brazil in 1956, a landmark in the history of town planning. Urban planner Lucio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer intended that every element – from the layout of the residential and administrative districts (often compared to the shape of a bird in flight) to the symmetry of the buildings themselves – should be in harmony with the city’s overall design.

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Big City Providence at Sunset #providence #eastbaybikepath #brownuniversity (at Providence, Rhode Island)

[dailyoverview]

The planned city of La Plata, the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, is characterized by its strict grid pattern. At the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, the new city was awarded two gold medals for the “City of the Future” and “Better performance built.”

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[welcometodcity]

@angrybrasileira was totally making fun of me for calling Pitbull “Mr. Worldwide” but then LL Cool J called him that and I was like, “See”

[welcometodcity]

Stopping Alice Cooper from performing would probably do a lot to reduce greenhouse gases

[welcometodcity]

I mean, did you see the hellfire?

[welcometodcity]

Shit I think Alice Cooper straight up murdered someone

[welcometodcity]

Stopping Alice Cooper from performing would probably do a lot to reduce greenhouse gases

[thewanderingyrs]

Twice while watching the Grammys now Dan has asked me “is that Kelly Clarkson?” the first time it was Carrie Underwood and the second was Kaley Cuoco - know your people Dan.

[welcometodcity]

To be fair, anyone could be Kelly Clarkson, pretty much.

[npr]

It’s early in the afternoon on a cold, wintry day, and Jeneyah McDonald is preparing a dinner of baked chicken with baby lima beans and rice for her family.

The Flint resident moves smoothly around her small kitchen, able to cook without even thinking — except when she finds herself reaching for the kitchen faucet to turn on the tap water. The small habit she once took for granted could now be dangerous.

Government negligence allowed lead and other poisons to get into the water. Now, nobody knows how long it will take until it will be safe to drink from the tap again. For families like the McDonalds, giving up tap water means changing even the smallest of their routines.

So Jeneyah, a substitute teacher, taught her son that the water is poison because, she says, “I don’t know any way to explain to a 6-year-old why you can’t take a bath any more every day, why you can’t help Mommy wash the dishes anymore … and that way he’ll know I’m serious, don’t play with it, even if I’m not looking.”

When Every Drop Of Water Could Be Poison: A Flint Mother’s Story

Photos: Laura McDermott for NPR

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Paulistano Chair by Paulo Mendes de Rocha