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The Le Corbusier, Jean Prouvé house for sale in...
Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé property for sale in Lorraine Rare opportunity at a very good price: habitable house built by the famous architects: Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé. The property has 200 sqm habitable space an... Read more ...
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On the up: a vertical pier for Brighton
The designers of the London Eye, architects Marks & Barfield , are confident that their upwardly mobile replacement for the wrecked West Pier will be open by 2011. Work has already begun on the i360 project which has already been dubbed an 'iSore' by its critics. It will consist of... Read more ...
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Haunted by What's Not There
David W. Dunlap at the NYT ( The Towers of Memory, Before and After ) compares views from 1978 and 2008. (Photo credit: Dunlap/NYT) Read more ...
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Getting a little list
I do like lists. For the prevaricator, the making of them is a satisfying way of delaying the work itself. For the anorak (and we all secretly have an anorak within, don't we?) lists are all about neatness and order and collecting. Like butterflies pinned down under glass, lists fix the wor... Read more ...
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Vintage plumbing
I've driven by this building several times in the past month going to estate sales in this part of El Paso, and I think it's so cool. Today I was finally able to stop and snap a picture. It's 3D signs mounted to the second floor of what looks like a currently operating plumbing business. ... Read more ...
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Wren seen from a ziggurat
A quick trip to London's Number 1 Poultry today. If you can get to the impressive roof garden there are stunning views that more than make up for the irksomely courageous whimsy of the controversial architecture. Peter Palumbo spent decades acquiring the site site piecemeal from 1958. His... Read more ...
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Four days in Vienna
“If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna” said Napoleon. A tall order for the art-lover with just four days in which to attempt to do justice to the major sites. The Kunsthistorisches, the Albertina, the Belvedere, the Imperial Library, the Ephesus and the Musical Instrument collections, t... Read more ...
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Will a crash take the rise out of the shard?
Given John Prescott MP's unlikely reputation as a lothario, it seems right that he be remembered for giving permision for London's most thrusting new erection - Renzo Piano's 'shard of glass' at London Bridge. Piano describes it as "a vertical town for about 7,000 people" based on "London's her... Read more ...
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Architectural sketches done this fall
I haven't made the time to sketch every day, as I was in the beginning of the year, but here are the sketches I have been able to do this fall. In continuing with yesterday's theme, here's another piece of El Paso architecture. I had fifteen minutes between appointments and I drove around downt... Read more ...
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Palmore Apartments
Here's a historic apartment building that I sketched earlier in the year. Today I had the wonderful opportunity to tour it and six other historic buildings in the Sunset Heights Historical District of El Paso. This is the area where people would sit on their front porches and watch the battle... Read more ...