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Ceiling Painting.

2008-11-20T16:01:00.004+01:00

the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferre Spanish abstract artist Miquel Barcelo spent more than a year creating the 16,000-square-foot elliptical painting for the dome of 'Hall XX' that houses the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. It is...

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Balkanology.

2008-11-17T18:03:00.005+01:00

images © Wolfgang Thaler The Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel is showing "Balkanology", an exhibition which is dedicated to exploring the urban transformations in South Eastern Europe. »Balkanology« opens a new field of architectural discourse in Switzerland - the little-known architecture of...

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Der Lauf der Dinge.

2008-11-14T21:13:00.002+01:00

Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go, 1987 ) is an art film by the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The film shows the continuing cycle of object moved by gravitation, centripetal forces, moment of inertia, Newton's laws third of motion (“to every action there is an equal and...

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Scanscape - Marc Räder.

2008-11-13T23:01:00.005+01:00

image copyright by Marc Räder, C-Print on alu. Uv-Film, 88 x 110 cm Edition 4/4 + 1ap "His photographs reflect the optional exclusion, standardization and non-historiography of life in Gated Communities for middle and upper class people." (see Räder's photography at Parrotta Contemporary...

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Roma antica su Google Earth.

2008-11-12T16:32:00.002+01:00

Google has launched the new Ancient Rome 3D layer in Google Earth. A model that "contains over 6,700 3D buildings and 250 Google Earth placemarks that allow Google Earth users to explore and learn about this fascinating period of history." (via LatLong Blog) content by anArchitecture

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Happy Monday.

2008-11-10T11:07:00.003+01:00

Join the survey at Archinect. Does the economic and credit crises become a painfully evident to those in the architecture industry? Take time to fill out the survey - It's quick and anonymous. The German Arch plus magazine features design patterns: grids, typology, pattern, ornament, scripts, and...

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Cloning Buildings.

2008-11-03T22:30:00.008+01:00

It seems that ambitious architects hardly do the same thing twice. Corbusier tried it and designed the Unité d'Habitation as a multiple adaptive building type. Unité d'Habitation Marseilles Unité d'Habitation Marseilles, image by fondation le corbusier The building is the prototype for...

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Peter Kogler.

2008-10-30T17:57:00.003+01:00

Foto: MUMOK, Lisa Rastl Since the eighties, Peter Kogler (born 1959 in Innsbruck, lives in Vienna) investigates digital painting procedures in relation to space and architecture. Aided by a computer, he produces repetitive, but organic textures covering ceilings, walls and even building’s...

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Film and Architecture.

2008-10-29T23:08:00.003+01:00

anArchitecture's film series about and around architecture. Motion pictures offer a different view of architecture and its principles: the manipulation of space, rhythm, staging, montage, organization, time and much more. But films got a "feature", architecture often lacks: telling...

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Empty Walls.

2008-10-28T20:09:00.004+01:00

Fire (-proof) walls ("Feuermauer") in Vienna Fire (-proof) walls: remnant of buildings, waiting to be hidden. They result from the perimeter block development in cities like Vienna: undesigned faces not intended to be façades. Sometimes these walls stay unused and empty, and provide rest for the...

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The Wotruba Church.

2008-10-27T21:30:00.003+01:00

Wotruba Kirche, photo by Helmut K. Lackner The Wotruba Church - built between August of 1974 and October of 1976 on the basis of a model by Austrian sculpture Fritz Wotruba. The church is located in 23rd district of Vienna. content by anArchitecture

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More Mobile.

2008-10-24T18:24:00.008+02:00

The book MORE MOBILE, edited by Jennifer Siegal, explores the possibilities of portable and demountable structures: wearable structures, container shops, tents, micro-compact homes and villages, capsules, school on wheels and more. "The work assembled in MORE MOBILE looks to a new generation of...

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Kandor - Test Tube City.

2008-10-23T22:30:00.006+02:00

image from supermanica Kandor was the capital of Krypton, the birthplace of superman (in the DC Comics universe). A city, that has been stolen and miniaturized by a supervillain (Action Comics #242, Jul 1958, see wikipedia for more): it got a test-tube city. Kandors, is also the installation by...

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Damaging Insulation.

2008-10-22T00:07:00.006+02:00

montage, original image from wikipedia Woodpeckers damage insulation material: they enjoy the hollow sound to mark their territory, they make nests in it and they dig for food. Strangely, the little bird threatens our energy-saving ambitions. They pecked through the layer of stucco and styrofoam...

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Sound Mirrors.

2008-10-20T23:19:00.005+02:00

image via everyoneforever image via everyoneforever Between 1916 and the 1930's, acoustic sound mirrors were built along the British coast. As a forerunner of radar, this structures could detect the sound of approaching aircrafts. (more on everyoneforever) content by anArchitecture

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Wire Sculptures.

2008-10-16T16:05:00.005+02:00

escalator, 2006, Wire Sculputure, 320 x 450 x 145 cm, by Fritz Panzer, photo by W. Woessner, source: Galerie Krobath Wimmer The art of Fritz Panzer. Allegorizing the ordinary. content by anArchitecture

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Ecclesiastical Architecture.

2008-10-15T16:31:00.004+02:00

Mosque design in the Ehrenfeld district of Cologne, by Paul Böhm In Europe, mostly in Germany, new projected mosques have sparked an ideological debate (article in Der Spiegel, Go-Ahead for Germany's Biggest Mosque). What is the Muslim's place in the European society and what do mosques...

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Architecture Film, The Fountainhead.

2008-10-14T23:11:00.002+02:00

King Vidor’s film adaption of the book The Fountainhead (by Ayn Rand, 1943) celebrates the achievements of the individual. Architect Howard Roark, the protagonist of the movie, is the (male) genius who strive towards self-fulfillment: he is more willing to destroy his creations rather than to...

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Zollverein School of Management and Design.

2008-10-10T18:40:00.001+02:00

Completed in 2003, it was maybe the most prestigious building on the historical coal-mining Zollverein site (UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001). The 35m x 35m x 35m cube by SANAA, housing the Zollverein School of Management and Design: a business school for the creative disciplines, aiming to...

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Eliasson Artwork in Vienna.

2008-10-09T12:36:00.003+02:00

Olafur Eliasson, Yellow Fog, image by Rupert Steiner Olafur Eliasson is in great demand – now Austria get their very own artwork of the Meister: Yellowfog, on the facade of Verbund's (Austrian electricity company) "Am Hof" headquarter building. 2005, the company has acquired the installation...

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How you can make your company great.

2008-10-09T11:16:00.003+02:00

It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book (by Paul Arden, from amazon) It reminds me of Stefan Sagmeister's quote "Complaining is silly. Either act or forget". content by anArchitecture

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Lichtfaktor.

2008-10-07T23:33:00.001+02:00

Forest from LICHTFAKTOR on Vimeo. Graffiti is getting stress-free. Instead of permanent images or lettering – street artists discover light. Groups like LICHTFAKTOR use light to give expression to their creativity. They take flashlights, biking-lights and flashing LED lights, a camera with a long...

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The Steinhaus has been completed.

2008-10-06T21:40:00.006+02:00

After 22 years construction time architect Günter Domenig’s Steinhaus (Stone-house) has been finished. Originally designed as his old-age residence it is now hosting concerts and soon workshops for architecture students. floor plan of the Steinhaus Günter Domenig (born 1934)has spend nearly 3...

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Architecture Film, Vertigo.

2008-10-02T19:10:00.001+02:00

It is amazing how Alfred Hitchcock captures space in his movies. It looks so simple and easy, however, we know Hitchcock was a perfectionist who did not leave anything randomly. Vertigo is a movie about moving around in space, most clearly in the “Vertigo effect” - a rapid panning-out and then...

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Living-Room.

2008-10-01T22:23:00.005+02:00

mock-up of the typical German living.room, Wozikonfi, by JVM Do architects know their target audience? Those they directly or indirectly design and build for? Do they know the life-(style) of e.g. senior citizens, doctors, delivery boys or a full-time moms? Strangely, it is often unimportant for...

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