(*chiara!– flickr/creative commons license) Les Corbusier designed the State Legislative Building for Chandigarh, capital of Punjab and Haryana states. Completed in 1961, this Brutalist concrete structure embodied classic modernist principles of form and function. The city’s master plan functioned like …
Month: September 2015
(Revelateur Studio– flickr/creative commons license) Barkow Leibinger of Berlin designed the TRUTEC building in Seoul’s new Digital Media City. The 55ft high exterior glazing refracts in geometric patterns that project outward. The interior view is a unique perspective of the …
Thomas Moran (1837-1926) Green River Cliffs, Wyoming (1881) American, oil Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) El Rio de Laz (1877) American, oil Thomas Cole (1801-1848) The Voyage of Life Manhood (1840) American, oil Thomas Cole (1801-1848) The Voyage of Life Old …
(Lauren Manning– flickr/creative commons license) Federico Negro of SHoP Architects designed the 290 Mulberry Condominiums in New York, still incomplete. Frank Seta & Associates designed the undulating brick facade. Zoning laws required a “predominantly masonry” facade, like the next-door historic …
John Martin (1789-1854) Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (1816) British, oil Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) Mortlake Terrace (1827) British, oil John Constable (1776 – 1837) Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close (1820) British, oil Joseph …
Gerrit Berckheyde (16381698) A View of St. Bravos, Haarlem (1666) Dutch, oil Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) The Maas at Dordrecht (1660) Dutch, oil Jacob Van Ruisdael (1629-1682) Forest Scene (1665) Dutch, oil Jan Van Goyen (1596-1656) View of Dordrecht from the …
(Clinton Steeds– flickr/creative commons license) E. Fay Jones designed the Thorncrown Chapel near Eureka Springs, Arkansas, completed n 1980. Sainte Chappelle in Paris gave inspiration for the sacred building, with its light-filled walls and gold-traced bony structure. Simple 2x wood …
Corrado Giaquinto (1703-1766) Autumn (1750) Italian, oil Gerhard David (1460-1623) The Saint Anne Altarpiece (1500) Netherlands, oil Sir Peter Paul Rubens Denprah Kip, Wife of Sir Balthasar Gerbier (1630), and Her Children (1577-1640) Flemish, oil Master of the Death of …
(numb 11– flickr/creative commons license) MVRDV designed the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Museum in 2009 越後妻有アートトリエンナーレ 大地の芸術祭 in Tokamachi City and Tsunan. The region is famous for its hot springs, rice fields, and for the world’s largest annual art festival, at …
(Groume– flickr/creative commons license) The Une Architecture exhibit by Zaha Hadid was on display at the Institut du monde Arabe in Paris France until October 2011. The Chanel Mobile Pavilion moved there in April 2011 after touring around the world …