Walk Of Faith, Tianmen Mountain, China, c. 2012
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"The city has no character. We are building the city’s character right now, and its coming with modern architecture. … There is nothing wrong with glass. Glass, I think, is a very exciting architectural form. It is in the developer’s interest to have a government that understands some of the problems of development. I don’t make any apologies for the development in this city."
Clorindo Testa, Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1959-6 (via brutalism)
Shona Kitchen and Nick Coombe, Minotaur Maze, Kielder Castle Park in Northumberland, England, 2003 (via tonicliett)
Shin Takamatsu, Nose Myoken-san Worship Hall, Kawanishi, Japan, 1998
Frits Peutz, Glaspaleis, Heerlen, Netherlands, 1935
Rafael Viñoly, Exterior View of the Allen Room at Lincoln Center, Manhattan, NY, c. 1998-2005 (via archrecord)
Rafael Viñoly, Allen Room at Lincoln Center, Manhattan, NY, c. 1998-2005 (via archrecord)
“The Allen Room is a 508-seat amphitheater with 50-foot glass wall overlooking Central Park.” See the seating chart here.
Group 8, Coral Housing Complex, Genève, Switzerland, 2011 (via subtilitas)
Robert Smithson, Map of the Island of Broken Glass, Vancouver, Canada, 1969 (ethel-baraona; garbage)
“In 1969 near Vancouver, Robert Smithson attempted to create an earthwork which was never realized: “Island of Broken Glass.” In the middle of the Georgia Straight he intended to dump 100 tons of broken glass onto a small rock island called Miami Islet, completely covering its surface with the shattered material. Due to the swirl of protests stemming from environmentalists and anti-Americanists, the project was suspended by a governmental telegram at the last moment.”
(Source: stankievech.net)
Gunther Domenig, Documentation Center at the Nazi Rally Grounds, Nuremberg, Germany, 2001 (via subtilitas)
An intentional attack on the existing structure, the new documentation center slices through at a diagonal axis, weakening the rigidity and overbearing nature (both physically and emotionally) of the existing congress center.
Coop Himmelb(l)au, Falkestrasse Rooftop Extension for a Law Office, Vienna, Austria, 1988 (via subtilitas)
Petzinka Pink, North Rhine Westphalia State Offices, Berlin, Germany, 2002 (via subtilitas)
Massive parabolic timber framing (50+ ft members) that support this double skinned building south of the Tiergarten in Berlin.
