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Tag Archives: Modern
Byker Wall – Newcastle upon Tyne, England
The Byker district of Newcastle upon Tyne was traditionally an area of high-density, Victorian row housing. At the end of the 1960s, slum clearance required the housing in Byker to be replaced. The city council, mindful of mistakes made in … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, England, Modern, Multifamily Housing, Postmodernist, Ralph Erskine, Tyne, UK
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Vitra Design Museum – Weil am Rhein, Germany
Vitra is Swiss-based furniture-making company of German origin that was founded in 1950 by Willi Fehlbaum. In the early 1980s the director, Rolf Fehlbaum, began collecting the furniture of named designers such as husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames, George … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Cultural Facilities, Expressionist, Frank Gehry, Frank O. Gehry, Gehry, Germany, Modern, Modernism, Modernist, Museums, Weil am Rhein, Willi Fehlbaum
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Once lauded as the parent and patron saint of Modernist architecture, he would alter be damned as the man who turned cityscapes into drafty canyons lined by banal boxes – mean, cheap abstractions of glass and steel. In truth, Rohe … Continue reading
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Tagged Architects, Architecture, Less is More, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Modern, Modernist, Modernist Architecture
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Petronas Twin Towers – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
When it comes to skyscrapers, size matters: the more flights, the more bragging rights. Since their first appearance in Chicago in the 1870s, the big spires have flourished on the generous fertilizer spread by glory-seeking architects, tycoons with edifice complexes … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Modern, Modern Architecture, Skyscrapers
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University of Toronto Graduate House
This compact residential ensemble is a rare North American example of perimeter housing; rooms for 434 students are distributed in four interconnected blocks whose sizes respond to disparate elements in the complex’s jumbled urban neighbourhood. Municipal requirements dictated an accessible … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Canada, Contemporary, Design, Graduate House, Modern, Thom Mayne, Toronto, University Of Toronto
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