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Tucked into the upscale enclave of Sea Cliff in San Francisco, this corner residence is a striking study in mid-century modernism—an unexpected but welcome contrast to its more traditional neighbors. Clean lines, minimalist facades, and an emphasis on horizontal volumes give the home its modernist credentials, while the restrained material palette—textured concrete, smooth stucco, and dark metal-framed windows—adds architectural depth. The subtle terrazzo-like façade offers visual texture without disrupting the home’s otherwise monochromatic elegance.
What makes this home especially captivating isn’t just its geometry but its context. Sea Cliff is famed for its early 20th-century mansions and Spanish Revival villas, but this residence bucks the trend, opting instead for a Zen-like simplicity reminiscent of 1960s and '70s design philosophies. Framed by meticulously sculpted trees and manicured greenery, the landscaping further underscores the influence of Japanese and California Modern design—a tranquil foreground to a boldly restrained home.
Though the architect remains unidentified, the design ethos feels informed by the likes of Edward Killingsworth or perhaps even Joseph Eichler’s influence, with its clear focus on indoor-outdoor harmony and unadorned elegance. This is modernism built for longevity—not to shout, but to last.
Located just minutes from the Lands End Lookout and China Beach, this Sea Cliff gem speaks to the power of architectural restraint in a neighborhood known for opulence. It's a quiet showstopper, and for lovers of design, an under-the-radar must-see on any San Francisco architecture tour.
Flickr Lounge ~ Geometric Shapes
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The Brazilian art exhibition at the Royal Academy.
The Flickr Lounge group has chosen Geometric Shapes for the weekly theme in week 5 of 2025.
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Playing with Bismuth Crystals and an acrylic ball.
Two flash guns has been used in this photo from behind to light the background and to freeze the motion of the water.
Every element in this photo is real and the colour is as captured by the camera. The clouds I took from my last visit to Cornwall. Minor enhancements and dust busting have been done in Lightroom 3
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I found the grocery netting to be quite an interesting piece of material with great repeating geometrical lines once stretched out and vibrant colours. Can you guess what the back ground is ? Hint used recently in one of my macro shots.This shot is best viewed on Black to see the finer details.
Reposted for Macro Mondays Geometric shapes theme.
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For "Macro Mondays", "Geometric Shapes", this shot of an antique pressed glass water goblet.
Sony 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 with 12mm extension tube attached. Lighted from above left with black background.
Well, I couldn't resist taking another shot of this unique roof of a Scottish Water building that sits on the esplanade!
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The Hive - Kew Gardens - a 17m high multi-sensory installation commissioned by the UK Government and created by artist Wolfgang Buttress, Simmonds Studio and BDP. It formed the centerpiece of the UK Pavillion at the 2015 Milan Expo.
The structure highlights the importance of pollinators to our future food security.
Macro Mondays, Theme Geometric Shapes.
I found some templates from a Google search and folded these myself.
Serie de distorsiones, fractales y figuras geométricas creadas con las app para Android Mirror Lab y Glitch Lab este septiembre de 2019 a partir de un autorretrato de 2014 titulado "Enkidu".
The image in this hand-made cyanotype is a design which is commonly used in Russia. This image is derived from a 1969 book titled "Russian Geometric Design and Ornament".
Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution's physical object collection, he also extensively photographed pages of books on topics of personal interest to him as a way of copying the material for future use. Smillie also photographed letters and documents as a method of preserving the Smithsonian's records.
Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie's duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum's installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie's documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution's art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.
Medium: Cyanotype
Date: 1890
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) - Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.
Accession number: RU95_Box76_011