April 2011
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Constructed Facade
Strom Thurmond Courthouse and Federal Office Building, Columbia, South Carolina - 1976 Marcel Breuer
Facade Detail
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Eames,Roche & Dinkeloo IBM Pavillion
IBM World Fair Pavillion, New York - 1962 Eames and Roche & Dinkeloo
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clipping from Popular Science
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The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sport
The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sport, Vilnius, Lithuania - 1971 Eduardas Chlomauskas window detail
more pictures here
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Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design”
Good design:
Is innovative - Rams states that possibilities for innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. He also highlights that innovative design always develops in tandem with innovative technology and can never be an end in and of itself.
Makes a product useful - A product is bought to be...
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The Cage
The Rockwell Cage @ M.I.T. taken July 16 2004
In regards to their beautiful and brutal honesty to both their time and their place, I have always been fascinated by the industrial facades that are all too often relegated to the backs of ornate buildings decorated in a historic style disconnected from the their actual use and construction.
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Family Portrait - Marilene Oliver
Family Portrait (2003) Marilene Oliver Bronze ink screen printed on to 3mm clear acrylic, bronze rods, 4 sculptures,each sculpture measures 192 x 70 x 50cm, edition of 6 plus 2 artists copies. (Sophie detail)
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bildbauten - Philipp Schaerer
Bildbau No 2, 2007 50 x 70 / 6o x 85 cm Light Jet Print
Bildbau No 5, 2007 50 x 70 / 6o x 85 cm Light Jet Print
After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) as an architect in 2000, Philipp Schaerer (1972) worked as an architect and knowledge manager for Herzog & de Meuron in Basel (2000-2006)....