Wednesday 29 June 2011

The frame is part of the drawing









Anish Kapoor - Leviathan, Grand Palais, Paris (2011)

USS Macon at Moffett Field, California (1933)

Salon de locomotion aerienne, Grand Palais, Paris (1909)

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Monday 20 June 2011

Olafur Eliasson: Rainbow Panorama










Rainbow Panorama (2006-2011) Installed on ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Olafur Eliasson

Sunday 19 June 2011

Schools are cool : Mathias Klotz









Colegio Altamira, Santiago, Chile (2000)
Architect: Mathias Klotz

Glorious Beton Brut: Kolasin's Spomenik





I noticed this building amongst the striking images that were doing the blog rounds of former Yugoslavian Spomeniks (monuments) built during Tito's regime of the 60s and 70s (see here, here, and here) photographed by Jan Kempenaers

Presumably designed by either Bogdan Bogdanović or Gradimir Medaković (I'm thinking the latter but can't find any further information), it stands out from the other Slavic Monuments as actually being the town hall and community centre Kolašin, a small town now in northern Montenegro.

Resonating with the avant-garde architecture being built in the soviet union at the time (as documented here),  the utopia being offered by these architects exemplifies for me what Owen Hatherley has described as 'nostagia for a time yet to come' 

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Friday 17 June 2011

Fabio Rieti + Emilé Aillaud









Tours Aillaud, Paris (1977)
Architecture: Emilé Aillaud
Mural: Fabio Rieti

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Saturday 11 June 2011

Irena Lipiené


Studio Nowa








Parco Lineare is the reuse of a former narrow-gauge railroad into a pedestrian and bicycle path between Erei and Iblei in Sicily, Italy (built 1999)