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Phoenix Gallery Brick Details by Luke Zeme

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Amazing what good design and engineering can accomplish. These bricks were custom made for the Phoenix Gallery in Chippendale Sydney by Krause Bricks.

The idea was initiated by a private patron whereby each element of the space was authored by a different hand. It has 3 main spaces; a gallery, a performance space and and a garden connecting it all together.

The Gallery architects are: John Wardle Architects

The performance space architects: Durbach Block Jaggers

Engineering: TTW Engineers

Brickwork by Krause Bricks

Garden spaces: 360 Degrees Landscape

I can’t wait to explore the various ways the spaces crossover and interact with my camera

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ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Roman Architecture, Beyond the Colosseum, THE NEW YORK TIMES (27|01|2015). by Martin Conde

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ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Roman Architecture, Beyond the Colosseum, THE NEW YORK TIMES (27|01|2015).

For people who love contemporary architecture, trying to find striking new buildings in the historic center of Rome is about as easy as trying to go gluten-free there. But if you move a little farther out — or a lot — there are stunning treasures to find, from museums to stadiums to churches, not to mention animated new neighborhoods that you probably would have never explored in the first place.

I undertook a breakneck tour of these newly completed structures, in widely varying districts, last summer with two on-call critics: my septuagenarian parents, self-professed architecture lovers who are not shy about their opinions. We traveled the streets of Rome largely by car, a method of transportation that brought out the, let’s say, raw side of the Roman population. Luckily, the buildings were as dramatic as the drive, but much less stressful.

Jubilee Church

As we headed into the city from Umbria, we wove in and out of traffic, through a steady progression of crowded traffic circles and bizarre turn-offs, somehow happening upon Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church, also known as the Chiesa di dio Padre Misericordioso. It’s in the eastern neighborhood of Tor Tre Teste, a shabby area of tall housing blocks from the ’60s and ’70s that evokes the notorious banlieues of Paris.

Created in 2003, the bright white church is covered with a curved shell of multiple travertine and concrete walls pierced by huge sheets of glass. It’s closed off with high white fences, and this fortresslike aspect, along with the rain and dirt streaks smudged into the building’s white surfaces (why white in polluted Rome?), first left us cold.

The church had just closed when we came by, but even from the fence we could see that the interior space for worshipers was a glorious contrast to the scene outside. Its extra tall spaces were full of air, light, white marble and warm wood — elegant sublimity. Angled sunbeams from above hit the floors and filled the space with a soft glow, leaving us all impressed.

Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts

Instead of waiting five hours for the church to reopen, we decided to go over to Flaminio, a low-key and lush residential area northwest of the city center. Despite the always fast-moving traffic, the quarter has some breathing space, and there are far fewer tourists wandering the streets than there are just a few miles in. The interesting architectural sites — many of them built in recent years — are close by, giving us a good excuse to leave the car and walk.

The most talked-about new building here is the Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts, which opened in 2009. Designed by the London architect Zaha Hadid, the impressive edifice — whose wavy, zigzagging geometries were inspired by the very urban grid that we had been struggling to navigate — jogs through and around an early 20th-century military barracks. Its large plaza encourages you to wander and gawk at a facade that constantly defies gravity with its large cantilevers and ultrathin columns.

Walk inside and you can’t help but be energized by the flow of space and light. Concrete floats like glass, ramps move in several directions, and your eye is able to span the cavernous lobby, open to all levels. The galleries alternate between traditional square boxes and not-so-traditional sweeping ones. My star-struck father loved the building, but my mother found the wavy walkways and stairs too discombobulating. I loved the structure’s exuberance, but was surprised it didn’t have more gallery space.

Ponte della Musica, Palazzetto dello Sport and Parco della Musica

I momentarily went off on my own to stare at the graceful white girders of the Ponte della Musica, an impressive new pedestrian bridge spanning the Tiber. Designed in 2011 by the British engineering firm Buro Happold, it has arches that lean outward as if they were being slowly pushed apart. I rejoined my parents at the Maxxi to walk just one block for a view of Pier Luigi Nervi’s Palazzetto dello Sport, an indoor arena for the 1960 Olympic Games and an exquisite example of midcentury futurism. The white building’s ribbed concrete shell waves up and down, supported by a ring of braces. It looks like an aging spaceship. The paint is peeling badly, but in this town of ruins, it feels like a poetic modern vestige. The area inside is still reserved for sports like basketball, and it’s worth a look: The elaborate structural ornamentation is mesmerizing. It is a practical sculpture if there ever was one.

A block east is an extraordinary performance center, the Parco della Musica, by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. The complex, opened in 2002, is deceptively simple and smart. Three brick performance halls are covered with weathered armadillo-shaped steel shells, lifted above a large plaza and amphitheater. It looks foreboding in pictures, but in reality it’s a lovely, tree-lined complex set at the street level with a string of cafes and shops. Even the nearby highway overpass has offices underneath. The theaters inside are heavy in woods, fabrics and typical Piano elegance. You should try to get tickets.

Macro

Just northeast of the historic center is the upscale district of Salario. It reminds me of Paris’s 16th Arrondissement, a stately residential area full of neo-Classical buildings, embassies, outdoor markets and upscale stores. In the middle of it all is the Macro (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma), a contemporary art museum inside the former Peroni Brewery, expanded in 2010 by the maverick French architect Odile Decq.

Ms. Decq’s stated goal was to make the museum experience less predictable, and she has done that in spades, creating weird and noteworthy experiences inside a vastly divergent series of spaces. At different points walk on a steel catwalk above the art (which varies wildly in quality), advance to a rooftop with views of the neighborhood and of one of the museum’s own murals, walk through false doors in and out of the structure, and linger on a plate-glass floor looking down at the people below. And please don’t miss the bathrooms if you like curvaceous fiberglass furniture and swiftly changing colors.

Of all the buildings we’d seen that day, this was the most original, and my parents approved. “It was a museum for everyone,” commented my father, who imagined taking friends and grandchildren alike.

From here we got back into the car, risking life and limb to find dinner in the congested heart of the city. It was a wondrous and dangerous ride, full of remarkably loud obscenities from Italian cabbies.

All the while I missed being in the farther reaches of Rome, experiencing places a little less frozen in time, and a little more full of unpredictable, strange possibilities.

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-- THE NEW YORK TIMES (27|01|2015).

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-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: The Roman architecture of Mussolini,still standing. One of the world’s great cities bears the signature of a Fascist dictator, and nobody wants to talk about it. THE BOSTON GLOBE (13 July 2014).

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Naoshima wonder Island by Claudio Zenger

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We went to Naoshima for two days. Is not to far away from Okayama. And as always, it's pretty easy to travel with public transportation to this Island.

This Island is definetly a must see for contemporary art and architecture lovers. You will discover a few great museum set up in amazing constructions and as well all around the Island a few really interesting art installation. My favorite museum was the Chichu Art Museum, the building is just amazing and the few art pieces exposed inside are just mind blowing, especially the installations from James Turell who is using light as he's main component for his art.

www.benesse-artsite.jp/en/chichu/index.html

Admin Buildings, Islamabad by Iqbal Aalam

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Secretariat Buildings designed by Gio Ponti.

Master plan: Doxiadis Associates.

Consultants for Admin Sector: RMJM

Landscape Consultant in some area: D. Lovejoy Associates.

Decision to build a new Capital for Pakistan in Islamabad was taken by Ayub Khan (one of many military dictators in this country’s unfortunate history), in 1959. The birth of Louis Kahn’s Dacca Assembly building in East Pakistan is also a result of a related decision taken at this time.

The Greek firm of Doxiadis Associates drew the master plan to set the city against a beautiful backdrop of Margalla Hills, using ‘dynapolis’ theory to avoid traditional static settlement and allow unimpeded growth in the future.

Road layout was to form a grid dividing the city into 750 acre squares, ideal size for a self-supporting community. These communities were designed to house various social groups using the Civil Servant Income scales.

Colombo Plan employed 3/4 British Architects (Gerard Brigden, Bradford, Goodyear & Franklin) who produced most notable social/housing buildings in early mid 60s.

Gio Ponti from Italy designed ‘Hotel Pakistan’ and secretariat buildings.

Both Louis Kahn (President’s House) and Arne Jacobson (National Assembly) wasted few years work without producing any results. The desire to see something ‘Islamic’ by political masters was no match for these intellectual architects. Edward D. Stone however had no difficulty in designing and building a sickening President’s Palace here.

My apologies to the addicts of 'star' rated modern architecture lovers but this is the way history goes. Scanned from slides taken in 1969.

172 Wash Queen Anne masterpiece by John Shiflet

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More Victorian architectural lovers' "eye candy". One of the most exquisite Queen Anne style mansions in Pennsylvania and one that the original owners would still be very proud of. Hats off to W & J college! June 2021 Revisit: still looking as pristine as it did in 2009, in the same colors, and an integral part of the lovely Washington & Jefferson campus. Still one of my favorites!

Day 143: A little Paris in Markham by Tony Cangiano

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You don't expect Parisian architecture in the middle of Markham. And yet here it is. Quite stunning at night.

Century Hotel by Lynne's Lens

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Located on NW 9th in Midtown

OKC, the Century Hotel was built in 1936 as a residence hotel, and that's the function it serves today. The building needs some love, but its still a big favorite among OKC architecture lovers.

Carceri d'invenzione by www.francismeslet.com

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Carceri d'invenzione by www.francismeslet.com

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by Daniel Visse

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My Chef | Italian Fb Retail by GAZ BLANCO

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Tamarama House by Durbach Block Jaggers by Luke Zeme

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Beautiful evening light created some amazing tones on the “Tamarama House” by

architects: Durbach Block Jaggers.

I love the description of an AIA NSW judge “However, it is the purposeful and sequential manipulation of volumes — from the compressed entry portico to the vast living space, layered cabana and intimate master bedroom — that leaves a lasting impression of delight”. I particularly love the concrete coned skylight half way up on the right hand side of the structure! This beauty is located right on the ocean near Bondi and has spectacular coastal views!

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