It’s been a pretty good year for buildings, so I’m going to go with both La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, AND the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. So many interesting, organic curves. And an honourable mention (without photo) for the old swiss house my friends bought that looks like a fairy tale setting.
designed by dr don branigan, ex mayor of whitehorse yukon. built as an alternative healing center in pyramid form to channel the potent cosmic energy in atlin british columbia
I’ve only got pictures of the interior but I visited the second oldest house in Prague this week that has an alchemical lab in the basement that was only discovered 20ish years ago.
hearst castle (finally!) the julia morgan tour was so worth it.
and a runner up: the outdoor dining structure at bar americano by re-ply. it's a great example of what the permanent program can bring to nyc's streets, especially given the challenge of seasonality
Biblioteca Nacional de Santiago, where I spent some quality time doing research. Designed by Gustavo García del Postig and inaugurated in 1924 by President Ramón Barros Luco, who is remembered mostly for the sandwich named in his honor.
1. Carre d'art, Nimes, by good-era Norman Foster which I'd wanted to see since a child
2. The English Baroque beauty of Castle Howard, visited for a Tony Cragg exhibition
3. Carlo Scarpa's exquisite Tomba Brion
4. The Gothic-revival Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bude
Also 4 :)
1.The University library next to the main buildings of University of Copenhagen.
2.Havneholmen Metro station by Superflex - a Danish artist group founded in 1993.
3.The Chair Tunnel is back at Designmuseum Denmark.
4.The bar in the garden of the same museum from the inside - by invitation.
only caught it out of the corner of my eye from the train and had no time to take a picture but the union tank car company dome in wood river illinois, probably one of the world's only large geodesic domes still in active industrial use
That's my 100% go to add example we can't do something like it in London. Coal Drops Yard is private, squeezed for high end capital, Heatherwick has fucked up the historic architecture for an Instagram moment, & it's all "curated" to an inch of its consumer-feeding life.
From what I've read it seems very different. There's a generosity of programme and space, a respect to the historic fabric, and genuine approach to sustainability.
Goju-no-To, the Five-storied Pagoda at Horyuji Temple, Nara which is thought to be the oldest wooden building still used. The central column, a cypress, was felled in 594. Its entirely original except for a little reconstruction at the very top due to a lightening strike in the 12th century.
Figuratively, and notably: The AT&T building in NY, in which the librarian who is losing his sanity in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's 'Spadework for a Palace' wishes to rehouse the entire collection of the NY Public Library so that readers cannot access books.
I live in Soho and walk past it a few times a week, always someone taking a photo. It's good to see that not every Manhattan architecture fan is at the Ghostbusters Firehouse!
Frei Otto's Munich Olympic Stadium, which i also got to climb on and zipline from. A spectacular and groundbreaking design which is at the heart of a wonderful park.
I had the strangest dream a few weeks ago that my partner bought Fallingwater on an impulse. Which was somehow possible and surprisingly affordable. Spent most of the dream weighing the pros and cons of having tour groups in our home all the time.
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National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Rudolf Schwarz’s St. Bonifatius in Aachen…
and a runner up: the outdoor dining structure at bar americano by re-ply. it's a great example of what the permanent program can bring to nyc's streets, especially given the challenge of seasonality
...and had this one inexplicable rock hanging on a hook...
Did you recognize it, or are you just aging it based on the vine diameters?
https://maryon.ch/liegenschaft/engeldamm-30/
1. Carre d'art, Nimes, by good-era Norman Foster which I'd wanted to see since a child
2. The English Baroque beauty of Castle Howard, visited for a Tony Cragg exhibition
3. Carlo Scarpa's exquisite Tomba Brion
4. The Gothic-revival Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bude
1.The University library next to the main buildings of University of Copenhagen.
2.Havneholmen Metro station by Superflex - a Danish artist group founded in 1993.
3.The Chair Tunnel is back at Designmuseum Denmark.
4.The bar in the garden of the same museum from the inside - by invitation.
Followed by the Taj Mahal
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5SSwtLrUcb/?img_index=5&igsh=MW80ZnJyMDBnc3Awag==
(photos by Mariela Apollonio because taking photos of a school can be tricky)
Sagrada Família
https://www.archdaily.com/971223/miyashita-park-nikken-sekkei
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/villa-majorelle-art-nouveau-nancy-reopens-after-restoration-01-17-2020/
Gimme a minute.
Cc @aluckmann.bsky.social
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/business/we-have-to-build-bridges-bangladeshi-owners-bringing-bazaar-to-buffalos-east-side/article_0f7c2920-e942-11ee-bd3f-1f26b4870ced.html