Fabrication, Welding & Metalwork [& architecture]

Photos of modern and modernist architectural metalwork

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Maison Pradier, Lavaur, France,

completed in November 1978,

Designed by Pierre Debeaux

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Hexagonal Gates on calle Alfonso Xll

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The squares perforated with smaller squares on either side of the fire place are designed to rest your coffee pot

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Lambeth garden

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Backstreet welding. Rudimental yet utilitarian

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I want to live in a city where all the buildings look like this. Ok last foto is Edinburgh.

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Fence or rail seen near Nikko

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Kyoto retro staircase

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That's a lot of diagonals.

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Very nice use of angle for minimal weight.

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Circular window rails. Yes circles!

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Not welding and not modern but these rails were so sexy and elegant that I am posting it here as a one time exception. Look at the wiggly spike which alternates , one straight, one wiggly. As welders and designers we need to aspire to this level of fabrication.

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Five-floor spiral staircase. Seen in Nikko. Japanese engineers don't mess around

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Welded steel balustrade and infill with perforated steel and Georgian wire glass

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Vojvodinian house. No idea what the period or architectural style is.

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Simple picnic table design