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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-75747955913681581092018-07-22T00:38:00.001+02:002018-07-24T12:29:25.865+02:00Junk Space or Space Jumk: A Visit to Berlin's Free University
Main f acaede, corten steel replaced with bronze in Norman Foster retoration.Photo: Lena Giovanazzi, 2015. Source: web magaine Uncube (reference below)
Freie Universität Berlin
1962 (competition); 1967-72 (Phase 1)
Georgis Candilis, Alexis Josic & Shadrach Woods, architects.
I have wanted to see this legendary building for years - an entire university in a single sprawling Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-28206612381813847822018-05-10T23:53:00.001+02:002018-05-10T23:53:56.461+02:00Alberto Campo Baeza: Body and Soul
All photos © Javier Callejas
Sports Pavilion
University of Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid
db - deutsche bauzeitung
April 2018, pages 24 - 31; cover
Excerpts
Alberto Campo Baeza describes his gymnasium, built for the Legionaries of Christ's Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid, as a "container of light," and he has submitted every detail of its design to the realization of this idea.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-46950213601898571002018-05-03T22:57:00.001+02:002018-11-01T01:22:38.222+01:00The Brick at Bankinter
Photo: DC
Rafael Moneo with Ramón Bescós, Bankinter bank headquarters, Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid, 1972-76
I am a brick fan, and look at these!
Machine-pressed brick, a technological throwback from the 19th century. I think it was Emilio Tuñón who told me years ago that they came from an old factory discovered somewhere in Valencia or Sevilla that still had one of the old presses Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-44777337705689402062018-02-02T23:56:00.001+01:002018-02-03T00:08:43.048+01:00Jefferson's University of Virginia, Charlottesville in winter
Peter Maverick, engraving of Jefferson's plan of the University of Virginia, 1826. From the University of Virginia Library, Digital
Collections. Source: Wikipedia
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-66845186329489452862017-12-05T01:45:00.000+01:002017-12-05T01:45:17.818+01:00Vienna
Fragments from an autumnal Vienna: the sentinel figures atop the cornice of the Museum of Natural History, near our hotel; figure of a saint at a local church; Fischer von Erlach's baroque library, embedded in the Hapsburg palace complex; apples in a market, for a bit of color.
Schloss Belvedere, Vienna and its tricky garden axis. Looks complete from above, but it is broken into three Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-180158343900423172017-12-03T00:18:00.000+01:002017-12-05T02:19:33.319+01:00Karl Marx Hof, Vienna
Karl Marx Hof, Vienna
Karl Ehn, 1927-30
Visited November 8, 2017
Beside the rhetorical
arches, which seem a bit over-exposed at this point, the interior
courtyards are impressive in their own right.
We did housing
block studies like this at Columbia under Kenneth Frampton. His models
were mainly Dutch, but the corner turns here bring it all back.
The complex is about a kilometer Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-50953823927193774782017-12-02T23:35:00.001+01:002017-12-02T23:35:58.929+01:00Bot Slave
After posting images of the Karl Marx Hof housing project in Vienna on Facebook, around November 10, today I received the following email from my dormant Pinterest account:"New ideas for you in Karl marx""We found some Pins we think might be right up your alley"With of course images of the venerable.I couldn't help myself, I answered the email. And it answered back. The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-58804219215997123332017-11-19T01:03:00.001+01:002017-11-19T01:09:43.543+01:00Carme Pinós' Massana Arts School, Barcelona
Photo © Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre
For Architecture Record's issue on college and university buildings this month, I cover Carme Pinós' Massana School of the Arts and Design in Barcelona, located behind the Boqueria Market in the Raval, on a plaza Pinós also has designed.
Highlights:
"Pinós’s compositional technique involves syncopated openings, overlapping angles, large cantilevers, and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-44886683202439039632017-08-12T10:47:00.000+02:002017-08-12T13:04:09.375+02:00Vázquez Consuegra's CaixaForum Sevilla
Photo courtesy Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra
The theme of my latest article in architektur.aktuell is "the limits of even the best architecture in the face of an inappropriate site." Excerpts from the text:
"The story of how the CaixaForum ... ended up in a basement is a tortuous one. In 2009, Vázquez Consuegra won a limited competition to install the Forum in the dramatically-vaulted Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-62621880465253375412017-07-27T01:16:00.000+02:002017-07-27T01:16:55.290+02:00Restoration Degree Zero<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Model and rendering from El País, May 22, 2017
Rogers Stirk Harbour+Partners will design the urban plan for a major new expansion of Madrid known as Distrito Castellana Norte.
There is still very little information on this move, the latest in the long history of the proposal to cover the tracks of the Chamartín Train Station with a massive development of housing and offices. But ElUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-71154689956400206192017-05-08T19:32:00.000+02:002017-05-14T11:25:07.723+02:00Billionaires' Row
All photos DC unless noted
Pictures from a recent trip to New York
Rafael Viñoly's pencil tower as seen from 57th Street. I
still like it. Well-resolved facades - direct, elegant, no nonsense, no shame. Looks good --or at
least commands attention-- from all over town and the region.
Very New York. A crowd of these? Art history teachers always liked San
Gimignano, right? And Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-26545343214332640702017-05-01T02:02:00.000+02:002017-05-01T02:02:01.520+02:00Land-grab in Moscow<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Photo: Colegio Oficial de Arqutectos de Madrid (COAM) / El País
A story from last month's El País that I have been hearing echoes of: the owners of one of the three works by José Antonio Coderch in Madrid have applied for a demolition permit: the Vallet de Goytisolo house of 1956 in Arturo Soria's Ciudad Lineal (Linear City).
Private houses from the 60s and 70s are in critical danger Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-29828365168141897852017-03-18T23:11:00.001+01:002017-03-18T23:15:44.840+01:00Aesthetic confusion in Denver<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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"Bad" architecture in Denver, according to Denver FUGLY. Via CityLab.
The FUGLY Movement
Citylab airs a complaint about new high-density housing in Denver. The city is booming but some hate the design of new construction.
Most of the examples put up for the horror show don't actually look all that bad to me. For one thing, they are overtly "modern". Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-33758487506754286012017-03-13T12:35:00.000+01:002017-04-11T01:39:30.648+02:00Whither Architecture?
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Elbephilharmonie
by Herzog & De Meuron. Photo © Iwan Baan
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Main dining room, Les Cols. Photo © Hisao Suzuki
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On the representation of power: how much can we infer about Spain's political structure in the size and decoration of the Presidential compound at Moncloa?
Office of President Rahoy in Moncloa in 2013. Source ABC
In a column in El País yesterday (Feb. 4, 2017), the historian Guillermo Cortázar analyzes the Palace of Moncloa, an estate on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7196822776323209128.post-25667925744277390032017-01-17T21:46:00.000+01:002017-01-17T21:50:16.682+01:00Barozzi Veiga: A Question of Character
Szczecin Philharmonic. Images courtesy Barozzi Veiga
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