Kempenaers’ photo series Spomenik, The End of History has popped up on several sites in the past few days, but I’m gonna post them again. Because they’re captivating. The monuments depicted are Yugoslavian socialist-futurist memorials, most employing cast-concrete and a good number of them in a state of advanced disrepair.
Spomenik 2, 2006
Spomenik [...]
Grain Edit points to some appealing mid-century vacation home plans sponsored by the Doug Fir Plywood Association. The catalog features 18 homes designed by architects like George Matsumoto, Frederick Liebhardt, David George and Henrik Bull. Illustrations by Bob Wandesforde.
Read the inelegantly named George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design this past weekend and came upon this image of a sun shade that Nelson designed for home of William E. Dunlap. Dunlap was the owner of Aluminum Extrusions, a Michigan-based company that produced Nelson’s original modular wall storage unit — the Omni System. When [...]
I can’t imagine what it was like when it was first opened in 1961.
What! Posh Nosh. BBC circa 2003. Eight 9-minute episodes. Hilarious.
What’s so seductive about the aesthetic of the slum? Buildings in decay? Imbricated scrap multiplied into a shantiopolis? Ad hoc structures? Forms of life dictated by basic subsistence needs?
These conditions have proven to be great fodder for recent visual culture — Camilo José Vergara’s American Ruins, Michael Wolf’s Bastard Chairs, Rem Koolhaas‘ infatuation [...]
Much debate in architecture circles has centered around the inspiration for Rem Koolhaas’ new building in Dubai. Was it modeled on the Death Star or, as some critics would say, on the 1972 Panasonic transistor radio?
[via Treehugger]
Found this image of Michael Graves’ original proposed design for the Portland Public Service Building in a 1985 issue of Architectural Design. Interesting to note the original plan called for much more dramatic decorative garlands along the sides of the building and a collection of public arcades and shops on the rooftop. Both elements were [...]
The final act of Godard’s Contempt is stunning — in no small part due to its use of architect Adalberto Libera’s Villa Malaparte, situated high on the cliffs of Capri. The home was completed in 1942 for the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte, but was abandoned after his death in 1956. It has since been restored [...]