Tag: Contemporary architecture
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Video of the Week XII: Poundbury: Building Communities
Here is a companion piece to the Prince Charles post of a couple of weeks ago (I hope it is clear by now that my Zaha comments were made with tongue embedded firmly in cheek…). Here, for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure perhaps?), is a very short clip propounding the virtues of Poundbury: What do…
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The Flickr Travelogues – architectural eye-candy from the Jubilee Line Extension (London) Pt1
One of my favourite architectural memories from my time living in London was stumbling across the architecture of the Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) of the London Underground system – there is nothing quite like having an architectural experience without any form of warning whatsoever. Visiting the well-photographed Barcelona Pavilion, for example, had no such sharp edge…
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The Flickr Travelogues – architectural eye-candy from Osaka
Welcome to Ando-ville – I’m sure there must be worse places in the world to live if volumetric formalism and concrete minimalism is your thing… There are, of course, other architectural firms at work in Osaka, but an Ando building just makes such a fine photograph. A series of images selected from a Flickr keyword search: architecture/Osaka…
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The Flickr Travelogues – architectural eye-candy from Hamburg
The Flickr photo-sharing website is an amazing resource for the virtual tourist – oh the places I have virtually been to… It is, of course, only a visual form of travel, but we here in the antipodes have coped with books, magazines and slide shows when learning about architecture for quite some time – and no…