120530 - The finishes plan for Jamie Fobert Architects’ Womens Designer Galleries in London’s Selfridges department store, and what it looks like with the actual materials.
120523 - Melnikov’s car park bridge
120522 - A model of John Hejduk’s Element House
120521 - Fujimi Country Club by Arata Isozaki, 1973
120514 - The layers of Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron’s Serpentine Pavillion 2012
120511 - The Großes Schauspielhaus (Great Theater) was a theatre in Berlin, Germany, often described as an example of expressionist architecture, designed by Hans Poelzig for theatre impresario Max Reinhardt.
The structure was originally a market built by architect Friedrich Hitzig, and it retained its external,gabled form. It then became the Zirkus Schumann, a circus arena. It was renovated by Poelzig and reopened in 1919, contained seating for 3500 people. Max Reinhardt wanted to attract a working class audience to the theater. The large size allowed for people who could pay top prices for the best seats to support the low-cost seats in the back of the theater.It was painted red. It was a cavernous, domed space and had no balconies, which contributed to its vastness. The dome and pillars were decorated with maquernas, a honeycombed pendentive ornament, which resembled stalactites. When illuminated, the ceiling’s lightbulbs formed patterns of celestial constellations, and the vaulted ceiling took on another concept, the night sky. In the lobby and elsewhere, Poelzig made use of colored lightbulbs to create striking visual backdrops. Separate entrances were provided for the expensive and the cheap seats. The theatre also included a restaurant for the wealthy audience members, a cafeteria for the poorer audience members, and a bar. The performers and technicians enjoyed their own bar, a barber shop, ample dressing room space, and the modern stage equipment.
The Nazis took over the theater in 1933. They changed the name to The Theater of the People. The Nazis, who described this building as an example of Entartete Kunst, refurbished the theater on the interior by adding a hung ceiling to hide the stalactite forms. After World War II, the theater was used for variety shows, then as a military warehouse until 1988 when it was condemned and demolished.
120508 - I’d prefer an @tomasklassnik designed kitchen! Check out his new “Knife Kitchen”.
http://www.klassnik.com/assets/KnifeKitchen/KnifeKitchen_Walnut_900.jpg
“A clean contemporary kitchen that preserves traces from the history of this Grade II listed house. Existing furniture from the old kitchen is integrated alongside contemporary appliances into the flush contemporary surfaces of this house for a butcher’s daughter and her family. An industrial palette of gloss white cabinets & tiling, stainless steel counter top, and brushed steel fittings are complemented by french oak flooring and solid walnut elements with curved detailing referencing existing nearby features within the room. A functional kitchen with a sense of warmth, familiarity and history.”
http://www.klassnik.com/pages/Knife%20Kitchen.html
120507 - What do you think banks should be made of? We think the answer’s cake.
http://www.saturatedspace.org/2012/04/new-materials-of-city.html
120506 - Drawings for Red Bull Music Academy by Langarita Navarro Arquitectos
120504 - St. Coletta School, Washington DC by Michael Graves, 2006.
“The nonprofit charter school St. Coletta serves individuals with cognitive disabilities, autism, and physical disabilities. Guided by the school’s philosophy that all children are special, MGA addressed formal, functional, social and ecological concerns in the design, and created a facility with such success that it is promoted as a national model. The 99,000-SF building’s largest elements - the entrance and common facilities - are located along Independence Avenue and expressed as geometric pavilions clad in colorful glazed tile. Instructional suites for 50-70 students are articulated as a series of “houses” with private gardens and relate to the scale of the adjacent residential neighborhood along 19th St. Internally, the houses front onto a double-height common space called the “village green.” The interior of each house is painted a different color, which becomes a way-finding device and also helps the students identify with their “community,” a vital part of the school’s teaching philosophy.”
120503 - Kyoto International Conference Centre by Sachio Otani, 1966.
120502 - Oita Medical Hall, Arata Isozaki, 1960.
120501 - Villa Fallet, Le Corbusier’s first built project.
120430 - The tiles on the ground floor of Oscar Niemeyer’s Ministry of Education, Brazil.
120423 - Mary Yacoob’s Thin Cities etchings,
“These thin city etchings are inspired by the novel “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino in which the explorer Marco Polo is asked by the Emperor Kublai Khan to describe the cities in his Kingdom. Each city has its own idiosyncratic logic. In the end, it is possible Marco Polo is just describing one city, Venice, but just looking at the same city from a different perspective.Each city etching has it’s own internal logic: eg a city of machine pathways; a city of plan rotation via the spikes on mountain tips; a rotating tool city; a city of tool heads in the sky….”
