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Floor plan of the Château de Pierrefonds

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:58:30 +0000

Floor plan of the Château de Pierrefonds

An amazing fully mobile elephant house! Here’s a video of it in...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:32:01 +0000

An amazing fully mobile elephant house! Here’s a video of it in action!

Pink origami unicorn in aquarium cube By: Me

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:18:17 +0000

Pink origami unicorn in aquarium cube

By: Me

Louis Villeminot Delineator Viollet-le-Duc Architect Design for...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:27:59 +0000

Louis Villeminot

Delineator Viollet-le-Duc

Architect Design for right half of Overdoor

Pencil on paper, Circa 1880s 6 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches

Louis Villeminot Delineator Viollet-le-Duc Architect Sketches...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:21:18 +0000

Louis Villeminot

Delineator Viollet-le-Duc

Architect Sketches for figurative table support and details

Pen and Ink on tracing paper, Circa 1880s 17 x 11 inches

A Brasileira Braga, Portugal

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:57:00 +0000

A Brasileira

Braga, Portugal

Peacock design in chalk By: Me

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:34:43 +0000

Peacock design in chalk

By: Me

Dr. Bayard candies

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:41:18 +0000

Dr. Bayard candies

Elevation and Section for a Catafalque for the Dauphin of...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:02:41 +0100

Elevation and Section for a Catafalque for the Dauphin of France, d. 1711

Workshop of Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

(Italian, Parma 1696–1756 Berlin)

speciesbarocus: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (workshop of) - Sketch...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:59:00 +0100

speciesbarocus:

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (workshop of) - Sketch for a Catafalque for Louis,

Grand Dauphin (c. 1711). Detail.

Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) - Villa...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:35:01 +0100

Andrea Palladio (30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) - Villa Rotonda - Layout

Palladio, it is easy to argue, is the most important and influential architect of all time. His work was greatly based around symmetry and balance between forms; this man is the reason almost all of our grand buildings from the White House to the British Museum look like Greco-Roman Temples. An important element in the history of world architecture.

Villa Foscari - Andrea Palladio - Study drawings The wall at the...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:01:32 +0100

Villa Foscari - Andrea Palladio - Study drawings

The wall at the Malcontenta forms the traditional solid pierced by vertical openings, with the central emphasis in the pediment; and the outer ones have the windows placed towards the extremities of the façade, a device which seems to reinforce the cubic quality of the block. The double bay in the middle is expressed by a single door, or in the rear elevation by a “Roman baths” motif, and carries the upper pediments of the roof. Horizontally the wall falls into three main divisions: base; piano nobile, corresponding to the ionic order of the portico, terminated by a flattened entablature; and a superimposed attic with cornice. The base plays the part of a projecting, consistently supporting solid, upon which the house rests; but while the attic and piano nobile are rusticated, the base is treated as a plain surface. A feeling of even greater weight carried here is achieved by this highly emotional inversion of the usual order.

(excerpt from “The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa” by Colin Rowe)

Bauhaus logo created in 1922 by Oskar Schlemmer

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:13:00 +0100

Bauhaus logo created in 1922 by Oskar Schlemmer

Me in Braga Romana

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:23:00 +0100

Me in Braga Romana

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:40:00 +0100

Fine jewelry collection dreamt up by Victoire de Castellane,...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:31:00 +0100

Bague-Broderie-Grenade-Irisee

Bague-Dentelle-Chantilly-Multicolore

Bague-Dentelle-Medaillon-Soleil

Bague-Dentelle-Opale-d-Orient

Bague-Dentelle-Saphir-Iris

Bague-Dentelle-Tourmaline-Rebrodee

Bague-Guipure-Framboise-Rebrodee

Bague-Resille-Bouquet-d-Opales

Bague-Tulle-Pointilles-Colores

Fine jewelry collection dreamt up by Victoire de Castellane, Dear Dior

HO MY DIOR!!!

The Architect’s Eye As part of this year’s Interni Legacy event...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:55:54 +0100

The Architect’s Eye

As part of this year’s Interni Legacy event at the Università Statale in Milan, in conjunction with Milan Design Week, Sergei Tschoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, partners of the Moscow based architecture studio SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov, have designed a high-tech sculpture titled The Architect’s Eye. A stainless steel sphere, completely smooth and reflecting, features an LED system to create the image of a huge human eyeball that rotates to look to the sky as well as at visitors and the ground. The iris changes color and the pupil increases and decreases in size.

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Isola di Loreto Lago d’Iseo

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:37:00 +0100

Isola di Loreto

Lago d’Iseo

Photo

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:55:10 +0100

artforadults: black dog new released by James Jean

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:07:32 +0100

artforadults:

black dog

new released by James Jean