Louis Delacenserie of Bruges designed the the domed ticket entrance to the Antwerp train station, completed in 1905. A viaduct into the building was designed by Jan Van Asperen. A clock sits in the center of a half rose-window, with …
Month: October 2015
I received this book for Christmas. It isn’t about architecture but I really enjoyed it. The Fotygraft Album was published in 1915 by Frank Wing, apparently an editor for The Argus. His daughter talks about family acquaintances around their …
(jhanxg– flickr/creative commons license) Daniel Libeskind designed these luxury apartment towers at Keppel Bay in Singapore, completed in 2011. The six buildings are 24 to 41 floors high, for a maximum of 525 ft in height. The complex rises like …
(mattbuck4950– flickr/creative commons license) John McAslan and Partners designed the 2012 restoration of London’s historic King’s Cross station. Built in 1852, King’s Cross terminated the main line for the East Coast and connected the island’s Northern Railway. The platforms run …
Adamo Boari and Federico Mariscal designed Mexico’s Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, completed in 1934. Italian architect Boari was not able to complete the project, and Mexican native Mariscal took it over. As a result, Boari’s Art Nouveau …
(fleno.de– flickr/creative commons license) The Hamburg water tower was originally designed by William Black in 1910. The brick vaulted base of the tower was reused from a 1863 structure. After its decommission in 1930, it was converted to a planetarium. …
(Dan Lundberg– flickr/creative commons license) Yann Weymouth of HOK designed the Salvador Dali art Museum artin St. Petersburg Florida, completed in 2011. The cold concrete box refers to the old museum from 1982, a gray uninviting warehouse. Geodesic spills out …
(Sarah_Ackerman– flickr/creative commons license) George McRae designed the Queen Victoria marketplace in 1898. The sandstone Romanesque Revival design uses metal structure modern for the time with classic Romanesque aesthetics and some Gothic elements, popular for America. Colorful stained glass articulates …
(DraXus– flickr/cc license Jürgen Mayer-Hermann designed the wooden pavilion over La Encarnación square in Seville, Spain. It was completed in 2011. The soaring 26m vaults are inspired by the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, the Catedral de Santa María …
(Dick Thomas Johnson– flickr/creative commons license) Richard Rogers designed the Nittele Tower for Nippon Television in Minato, Tokyo, completed in 2003. It is 192m tall. Circulation is pushed out to either end of the thin site and glazing on either …