STUFF I LIKE
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Tight Spot (by David Byrne)
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Thomas Hanks aka South England | on Tumblr (b.1996, UK)
Thomas Hanks, best known as South England, is a 17 year old...
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (A LUCID DREAM)
photographed by Jennifer Endom, styled by Stella Gosteva
see the shoot at
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (A LUCID DREAM)
photographed by Jennifer Endom, styled by Stella Gosteva
see the shoot at
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (A LUCID DREAM)
photographed by Jennifer Endom, styled by Stella Gosteva
see the shoot at
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THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (A LUCID DREAM)
photographed by Jennifer Endom, styled by Stella Gosteva
see the shoot at
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Alexandre Day
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Dioptase; Kandesei, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia
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NEW MUMBAI
TOBIAS REVELL - During the Indian Civil War, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai were flooded with refugees looking to escape the conflict. The Mumbai authorities, distracted by defence of the city and facing an already over-populated and poverty stricken slum could do little to maintain a semblance of civilised life in the area. Sometime later a cache of biological samples appeared through the criminal networks of Mumbai, in the vain hope that it might provide new marketable narcotic opportunities. The collective drive and expertise of the refugees managed to turn theses genetically-engineered fungal samples into a new type of infrastructure Ð providing heat, light and building material for the refugees. Dharavi rapidly evolved itÕs own micro-economy based around the mushrooms. This documentary tells the story of some of the characters involved from Mumbai and the rest of the world and how Dharavi came to be such a unique place.
on tumblr: tobiasrevell
100 ABANDONED HOUSES
Photographer Kevin Bauman - The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence. [more]
To see the entire series, please go to: 100abandonedhouses
Art Director, Photographer | Nick Frank
Random architecture in and around Munich.
Ecole Maternelle Pajol is a kindergarten in Rue Pajol in Paris | French architecture agency Palatre & Leclère
The Minister’s Treehouse: A 100ft Tall Church Built Over 11 Years without Blueprints
The Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee is a 100ft structure built by minister Horace Burgess from the early 1990s through 2004. The entire building wraps around a giant tree and was built completely without blueprints, sprawling to an estimated 10,000 square feet inside, including a four-story swing set. Photographer Kristin Sweeting took arecent trip to the treehouse and took many of the photos above. You can also see more images by Chuck Sutherland who provided the image on top.
[Via thisiscolossal]
Vladimir Tatlin - Model for the Monument to the Third International, 1919-20. Wood, iron and glass
(via artpedia)
Aberrant architecture - small coal man’s tiny travelling theatre
British design firm aberrant architecture has developed ‘small coal man’s tiny travelling theatre’. the brilliantly red structure was formed from aberrant architecture’s 21st century re-conceptualization of traveling coal salesman thomas britton’s 1678 mini-entertainment building for london. ‘small coal-man’s tiny traveling theater’ has been constructed in a manner very similar to its previous incarnation— a large sound funnel distributes musical entertainment occurring on the inside to gathered crowds around the exterior of the miniature auditorium. in the time of britton’s structure, amateur performers to symphony stars such as george frideric handel were said to serenade small crowds while hidden away from view.
all images by Simon Kennedy
[Via designboom]
Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog:
i’m in new york and montreal and el paso this week, so unfortunately this will be my last architectural update until next monday.
but in the meantime here are some pictures of what is arguably one of the most historic and iconic and remarkable houses in l.a, the schindler house.
it’s been photographed about a million times, and deservedly so, for it’s a beautiful and idiosyncratic and strangely bucolic (although a lot of that is, of course, the setting) house.
it also has a really idealistic and idiosyncratic history, here’s the wikipedia page if you’re interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler_House
and apparently when it was first built you could sit up in the sleeping baskets and see all the way to downtown (now that’s impossible due to the 4 billion buildings that have been built in the last 90 years in l.a between the schindler house and downtown).
also a nice l.a architecture fact: at one point schindler and neutra co-habitated in the house.
i’ll take some other pictures this week, and if they’re worth looking at i’ll put them up here.
and then next week i’ll get back to taking pictures of oddball buildings in l.a.
thanks
moby
Peter Lundstrom - Treehotel 2011
“In the High North deep inside the woods,
where the tree tops touch the sky, there is
a place inspired by friendship, designed with
genius, made by magic, perfect & pure.
This is Treehotel.” - Clare MacCarthy, Financial Times
the winning entry in a monument design competition, the project draws from the ‘spinning wheel’ symbol promoted by mahatma gandhi to illustrate contemporary india’s spectrum of social and cultural dimensions.
migliore + servetto architetti associati: mole antonelliana LED installation [ VIDEO ]
set upon the tallest building in turin, italy is the ‘torino + light + italian colours mole antonelliana lighting installation’, a project by milan-based practice migliore + servetto architetti associati, in collaboration with dutch electronics company philips and italian lighting fixture company luceplan. the historic landmark, ‘mole antonelliana’, is currently sporting three rectangular steel frames which contain red, white and green LED lights to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the unification of italy. suspended from the spire and floating above the dome approximately 80 to 100 meters high, the perimeter of the tilted frameworks are 168 meters in length.
“crushedwall” by Walter Jack studio
all photos by simon burt
“crushed wall’ is the latest architectural installation by british artist walter jack. situated at the entrance of the heartlands project in cornwall, UK, the expansive 40-metre long, 3-metre high wall utilizes concrete in such a way that it appears as soft and malleable, partially wrapping around the perimeter of a building.
selgascano: el B - auditorium in cartagena
- floating stairs become focal element | image © iwan baan
- ground level seating and ramp | image © iwan baan
Artist Wendy Artin - Three Fluted Columns, 2009, watercolor on cotton Khadi paper, 69 x 77 cm
