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Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell: the Original Theme Park at 100 years – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell: the Original Theme Park at 100 years. Dr Mark West (text) and Gavin West (photography)]. Father and son team Mark and Gavin West from Charlotte in North Carolina (Gavin is studying architecture and was on a programme in Barcelona – lucky him) have reminded us of the 100th anniversary of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here’s what they have to say:. Drac - the salamander fountain. The capitals of the Doric columns. A map of the park. At Viewport...
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Doodling in Kochi – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. Gigi's Giant Bell Installation. Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014 painted on the wall. Xu Bing Background Story Endless Xishan Mountain Scenery. The artwork from behind showing the creation of the work. Cinema for the Biennale. Kolam on the floor in a temple. An artwork from the festival daubed onto a wall in Fort Kochi. It's getting more political in notoriously left wing Kerala. Aaaagh that's more like it: traditional fishing nets of Kerala. They promised us jet packs ….
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Architecture – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. Pizzigoni’s Tent for God. The Beata Vergine Maria Immacolata in Longuelo Bergamo. Coderch’s Madrid Sunflower. Il Girasol apartment building in Madrid from 1966 by Coderch. Getting into No. 10. The curved facade at Palace Gate. The University of East Anglia and its grade II listed buildings. More Scarpa in Venice. The beautiful stone lettering outside the Olivetti Showroom. Perth’s civic modernism. The Perth Council House from the historic St. George's Terrace. Is an elect...
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Kramer Vs De Klerk: the bricks of the Amsterdam School – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. Kramer Vs De Klerk: the bricks of the Amsterdam School. A five storey central corner chimney tower. Viewport has had a couple of encounters this year with Northern European twentieth century brick buildings: from the Chile Haus in Hamburg. To Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen,. The street plan of the estate. A street scene with the typical three storey sweeping brick facades. A door way with some small sash windows. A four storey corner building. The de Dageraad panel.
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Before Watergate… – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. Il Girasole (the sunflower) apartment building in Rome. Up in Milan, on a complex triangular site in the city centre, Moretti designed this complex (and it is a very complex architectural programme) of 5 elements consisting of a 3 storey retail building along the street, and a variety of taller elements from 6 to 14 storeys with a connecting bridge element. It’s most striking feature is the projecting trapezoidal shape that extends over Corso Italia. Sometimes you need a ...
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Living Archives | Atelier Tally
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BEGIN TYPING YOUR SEARCH ABOVE AND PRESS RETURN TO SEARCH. PRESS ESC TO CANCEL. August 15, 2016. Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 13 seconds. Citizen M’s affordable luxury. Mobile. That’s what the M in Citizen M. I recently co-hosted an event at Citizen M Tower Hill as part of We Blog Design. Our little community, a free network that informs, inspires and connects design bloggers), where I stayed in the hotel from 10am through to the next morning, experiencing this affordable luxury first hand. It’s ve...
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Client: Benito Mussolini – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. Both of these buidings completed in 1942, The Palazzo dei Congressi and the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana are strong examples of the ultra pared down neo-classicism and rationalist architecture of the period. The first is designed by Adalberto Libera (the architect arguably behind the mysterious Casa Malaparte. The controversial Ara Pacis Museum by Richard Meier. The front view of the Palazzo dei Congressi by Adaleberto Libera. Google Earth view of the streets of EUR.
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Le Corbusier’s last building – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. Le Corbusier’s last building. The Heidi Weber Pavilion. The glass and steel framed building by Le Corbusier. Concrete is restricted to the vertical circulation element. Justus Dahinden's Pyramid Clinic. The office and residential building by Neuenschwander from 1972. The view of the building from the Lake. Some very nice autumn reflections. The corner of the building. The Rämibühl school building. The entrance to the school theatre. The mathematics building on the campus.
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Manila Modern – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. The Main Building (Tanghalang Pambansa) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The Niemeyer style driveway up to the entrance. The sweeping concrete curves. A concrete bench within the complex. A view from ground level. The Philippines Convention Centre. A nice bit of black glass. Another view of the Convention Centre. The entrance to the church. Some palm trees always help. The side of the Saint Andrew The Apostle Church. Other typical Locsin buildings in the city.
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Seidler out of Sydney – Viewport Magazine
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Design, Travel and Architecture. Seidler out of Sydney. The Pier Luigi Nervi facade elements on the Hong Kong Club Building. For a spin through Seidler’s amazing life (but not enough critique of his work) that started in Vienna to internment (by the British) in Canada during the war, a spell with Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro and his combative relationship with the press and the planners of Australia, check out the 2013 biography by Helen O’Neill. Hong Kong Club floor plan. Hong Kong Club front view. ItR...