Zoltan Kemeny, Banlieu des Anges, 1958
Georges Adilon, Institute Sainte-Marie, La Verpilliere, France, 1976 (via subtilitas)
Marina Abramovic, Trailer for The Artist Is Present, 2010-2 (via archidose)
Anagram Architects, Facade for the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC), Delhi, India, 2012 (via hivelive)
Spiegel vs. OMA, “An Obsessive Compulsion towards the Spectacular” 111 First Street Museum, Jersey City, NJ, 2006 (via archlab)
Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas survey their model for the 2006 proposal for the new Jersey City Museum.
Map of Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA, 1850
Map of the Cleomenean War, 229-2 BCE
Khedive Abbas II, Montaza Palace, Alexandria, Egypt, 1892
Jack Cook, Illustration for Charles Fishman’s The Big Thirst, 2012 (via USGS; BLDGBLOG)
Charlotte Birnbaum, “The Watchtower” from The Beauty of the Fold, 2012 (via NicolaTwilley)
Including this “Watchtower” from the “Obelisk” group, Birnbaum has identified nine families of folding napkins:
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Studio H:T Architecture, Shield House, Denver, CO, 2010 (via worldarch)
Alberto Campo Baeza, Proposal for a House in Zahara, Cadiz, Spain, c.2012 (via subtilitas)
“After working on the design for a new house facing the sea, the House in Zahara, Cadiz, for a long time, I now see clearly the solution of a PODIUM, ALL PODIUM, ONLY PODIUM. As if it were a jetty into the sea, so that, over there, on an emphatic horizontal plane, cleared and stripped down, it faces the distant horizon traced by the sea where the sun goes down.”
Alberto Campo Baeza, Casa Guerrero, Cadiz, Spain, c. 2005 (via allthedays)