Category: modernism
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Singapore deco (Tiong Bahru)
Dating from the 1930s, with many of its original buildings preserved, Tiong Bahru is the oldest housing estate in Singapore. Today it is one of the city’s trendiest districts. All images shot in January 2023
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curves #3
Tokyo, September 2010 #1 + 5 Frankfurt #2–4 Berlin March 2016 #1 Calgary #2–6 Mexico City February 2018 Mexico City, February 2018
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Mies #2: the Tugendhat villa
At the same time as he was working on his Barcelona pavilion for the 1929 World’s Fair (see my earlier post Mies: light, air, clarity), Mies van der Rohe was planning the Tugendhat villa in Brno, Czechoslovakia. It shares many of the same design elements (the onyx partition wall, the cruciform columns, the vistas of…
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diagonals #2
Prague #1-3 Kampa Museum #4 Franz Kafka Square #1 + 6 Baba #2 Na Příkopě #3 Ovocný trh/Fruit Market #4-5 Trade Fair Palace, Aero poster by František Zelenka) #1 Palladium mall #2 + 3 Prague metro #4 Hradčany Karlín Vyšehrad (#5 apartment block on Neklanova St, Josef Chochol, 1913-14) #1 Smíchov (exhibit in David Černý’s…
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almost all right
“Is not Main Street almost all right?” asked Robert Venturi in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. With his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown (who was scandalously overlooked when Robert was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honor, on the basis of their joint work), he went on to write Learning…
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curves #1
Curves are everywhere, softening the horizontals and verticals, but these photographs were all taken in Calgary, Alberta between 2016 and 2020. #1 rear view of Kane’s Harley Diner, Inglewood #2 our Renfrew backyard on 27 December 2016 #3 our much missed Luci #4 overlooking Bottomlands Park and Deerfoot Trail from Renfrew #1 from the footbridge…
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Museo Ruffino Tamayo
Designed by Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky, the Museo Ruffino Tamayo in Mexico City is as remarkable for its architecture as its permanent collection of works by Tamayo and other contemporary artists . Well worth a visit. February 2018
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verticals #2
We have family in Malaysia and Singapore, hence the many photos from SE Asia. Singapore, January 2006. Statue is Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore. Shanghai, April 2012 Singapore, June 2022 Johor Bahru, July 2022
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Casa Estudio Luis Barragán
Images shot on a tour of the Luis Barragán House and Studio, Mexico City, in February 11, 2018. All photographs were taken in natural light.
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