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Tag Archives: Architecture
Bregenz Kunsthaus, Austria
The Kunsthaus in southern Austria is an ethereally beautiful and technically masterful art gallery that offers visitors, admirers, and passersby an opportunity to indulge in the very essence of Swiss minimalist design. Winner of the Mies van der Rohe prize … Continue reading
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
With his smooth-skinned, highly engineered, and perfectly finished buildings, Norman Foster introduced the High-Tech Modernism of the United States to his native England. Early projects were two buildings in the unlikely setting of East Anglia: first, the curvy, curtain-walled Willis … Continue reading
House of Charitable Works
One of the most distinguished of Havana’s domestic buildings, La Casa de la Obra Pia, or House of Charitable Works, began as a fusion of two neighbouring properties by Martin Calvo de la Puerto y Arrieta. It is ne of … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Colonial House, Columns, Courtyard, Cuba, Havana, La Casa de la Obra Pia, Mansions
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Vienna Rooftop Modelling
Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky founded Coop Himmelbau in 1968. This is the project that put the Vienna-based architects on the architectural Deconstructivist map. The relatively small-scale commission came from Schuppich, Sporn, and Winischhofer. Share on Facebook
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Tagged Architecture, Coop Himmelbau, Deconstructivist, Rooftop Modelling, Vienna
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Ramat Gan Spiral House
From the early 1960s, Zvi Hecker studied the spiral as an archetypal form, in nature and in Arabic architecture. He obsessively analyzed the staircases of minarets, which would lead inward and outward, being passages and places to sojourn at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Architecture of Israel, Israel, Israeli Architecture, Ramat Gan, Spiral House, Zvi Hecker
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