Can You Identify This Building?

Posted by Miss Cellania in Architecture, Travel & Places on October 27, 2009 at 11:28 pm

A reader sent this picture to Curious Expeditions, asking if they knew where it was taken. The biggest clue is the building in the background with its distinctive architecture. Can you identify the building or the setting? Link

 
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Vulcano Buono

Posted by Miss Cellania in Architecture on September 25, 2009 at 1:39 pm

It looks like a new volcano is growing in Nola, Italy, near Mt. Vesuvius! The Vulcano Buono (good volcano) is a commercial center designed by Renzo Piano. The interior space is bigger than it looks due to the sloping grass roof, which insulates the building. Inside you’ll find a forest and an amphitheater, plus shops, a hotel, a supermarket, and a movie theater. See more pictures at Inhabitat. Link -via Metafilter

 
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What's behind door #1,543?

Posted by Alex in Architecture, Pictures on September 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm

A friend of Neatoramanaut Andrew Wirtanen snapped this photo of a construction site with a unique screen hiding the building being worked on in Seoul, South Korea. The screen is made entirely out of doors!

A little Googlin’ brought another view by waynekorea [Flickr]; this wonderful house made entirely out of old doors in Elberton, Georgia; and this amazing "door/portal" group on Flickr.

Thanks Andrew!

 
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What’s Dovecote to Do With It

Posted by Queuebot in Architecture on August 2, 2009 at 1:01 pm

For centuries, architectural marvels known as dovecotes were built to house the birds of the nobles. As you can see, you’d have had to be powerful and wealthy to obtain the rights to build these kind of pigeon coops on your property!

Pigeons were an immense passion and hobby for Romans, and typically the most powerful of men had these buildings constructed with marble powder coated roofing. Varro, Columella and Pliny the Elder wrote works on pigeon farms and dovecote construction. In the time of the Republic, the internal design of “pigeonholes was adapted for the purpose of disposing of cremated ashes after death: these columbaria were generally constructed underground.”

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by lannaxe96.

 
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13-story Building Topples

Posted by Miss Cellania in Architecture on June 28, 2009 at 10:46 am

You don’t want to be around when a high-rise apartment building falls over! The unfinished 13-story building in Shanghai toppled Saturday morning and killed a 28-year-old worker.

“It was just like an earthquake,” witness Zhang Supong told China Daily.

Construction of the building has been halted pending an investigation of the collapse, including reports that cracks had appeared Friday on a flood prevention bank near the apartment building, Xinhua reported.

Link to story. Link to pictures. -via J-Walk Blog

 
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Cloud Projections by Blake Gordon

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts on January 21, 2009 at 1:39 am

Light pollution may be the bane of astronomers, but they are art to photographer Blake Gordon. In his photograph series Cloud Projections, Blake captured patterns of lights from buildings in downtown Austin, Texas:

"I captured defined patterns of light above the city when atmospheric conditions were right," he explained in an email. This is part of a larger interest in seeing "the clouds as a surface." For instance, Gordon mentioned that he had also produced "rough images from a plane flight in Minnesota where I saw the reverse: low winter clouds gave light pollution a medium to mark upon, and towns broadcast their cluster signals to those above."
About these "broadcasts," Gordon asks: "Some of them were so precise that it’s hard to conceive that they are just afterthoughts of a lighting design. Would it still be called light pollution?"

BLDGBLOG has the story: Link | Gallery at Blake’s website

 
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The Rabbit Building: Macau Pavillion at Shanghai World Expo 2010

Posted by Alex in Architecture, Pictures, Travel & Places on January 13, 2009 at 12:21 am

If the folks at Carlos Marreiros architecture firm have their ways, the Macau Pavillion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 will be in the form this glorious giant rabbit:

… the pavilion will be wrapped with a double-layer glass membrane and feature fluorescent screens on its outer walls. Balloons will serve as the head and tail of the ‘rabbit’, which can be moved up and down to attract visitors. The building will be constructed with recyclable materials and consists of solar power panels and rain collection systems.

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The Mundano Building in São Paulo, Brazil

Posted by Alex in Architecture, Arts & Crafts, Travel & Places on January 3, 2009 at 2:16 pm

Those distinctive eyes, nose and lips are the hallmark of a Brazilian street artist Mundano. But instead of graffiti, this particular one graces the whole facade of a building in São Paulo. I can just imagine the lower "lips" rolling up when the store opens for the day.

Found at Wooster Collective, where one would find such things: Link | More of Mundano’s street art on Flickr

 
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