“For me, there are only contiguous, continual spaces, rooms, anterooms, terraces, etc. Storeys merge and spaces relate to each other.”
Moller House
Prague, Czech Republic
by Adolf Loos, 1928
Sun City, Arizona
…is a retirement community and census-designated place located within the Phoenix metropolitan area. It has a population of roughly 38,000 and an adjoining sister city—Sun City West—which houses an additional 25,000 residents. When Sun City opened on January 1, 1960, it attracted a crowd of more than 100,000 onlookers and the “futuristic development” was featured on the cover of Time magazine.
From Daily Overview
Image © Nearmap
Vitra Design Museum
Weil-am-Rhein, Germany
by Frank Gehry, 1989
Image: ©2010
Martin Maleschka
Ottone Arch 11 from Costruzioni per l’Architettura
by Michele Reginaldi, 1980-
The individual constructions do not have their own titles, rather they fall into four different groups: morphologies around the circle, morphologies of verticality, light structures and constructions for architecture.
“… Difference prevails; a new variation on the empty-gallery-as-art is achieved; and space is torqued in ways both apparent and mysterious.”
D-33 by Sarah Oppenheimer, 2012
Hideout for a Creole Imaginary by Brandon LaBelle, 2013
The one who is full of imagination; the one who is on the move; the one who crosses lines, bridges gaps, is lost in the crowd; the one who migrates; the one who searches for connection; the one who mis-speaks and mis-hears; the one who dreams of palm trees, apple pie, rum and wine; the one with a restless tongue; the one that is always already elsewhere; the one who transverses and interjects; the one from the other side of the tracks; the one who creates a new home, here and there.
Centennial Memorial Tower
in the Nopporo Shinrin-Kōen
Sapporo, Japan
by Iguchi Ken, 1968-70
Image © 北海道札幌市, 2018 [???]
Construction of this modernist tower, designed by achitect Iguchi Ken, started in 1968 to mark Sapporo’s centennial […] The footprint is a hexagon, to evoke a six-sided snowflake; a cross-section reveals that kanji for ‘north’ (北 kita). It’s in Nopporo Shinrin-Kōen, a short walk behind the Hokkaidō Museum