Turning Children’s Sketches Into Architectural Renderings
Most of these look better than Frank Gehry’s stuff British retailer Made.com asked a bunch of pre-teen kids to draw Continue reading
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The British Library Has Made Three Centuries of Copyright-Free Images Available for Download
There’s more than a million, and they’re all free. The thing about books is that they’re not very much good Continue reading
Skyhouse
Constructed at the summit of a century-old Manhattan skyscraper, architect David Hotson created an experientially immersive house in the Continue reading
1947: Bell Telephone Acoustics Lab
“Bell Telephone engineer in a research room designed to eliminate 99% of all outside sound” via http://www.retronaut.com/2013/03/bell-telephone-acoustics-lab/
Totalitarian Architecture of the Soviet Union
From Constructivism to Gigantism, From Extreme Ornamentation to Brutalism (and very little soul)Unapologetic in their colossal scale and glorification of the totalitarian state, these gigantic structures dominate urban landscapes of the former Eas…
Avoid Conversation!
‘Dining Table’ was made at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency in Omaha, Nebraska by american artist Michael Beitz. It is part of a series of furniture pieces that attempt to address obvious tensions that exist in our daily routines an…
Untitled
Thanks to innovations in building materials, design technologies, and construction tools, a new generation of architects can finally realize structures that would have previously remained mere dreams. This emergence of a new vernacular of radicall…
A Century at the Ballpark
A Century at the Ballpark Fenway during the 1912 World Series. Note the fans in front of the ad-shrouded left-field wall, not yet the Green Monster. Boston lost this game, but won the series. via observatory.designobserver.com
