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June 24, 2023 - Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao was completed in 1997. Materials: titanium, glass and limestone.
November 29, 2020 - 150 North 3rd is a new luxury living community featuring 79 apartments under construction in downtown Columbus, Ohio. www.150norththird.com
November 29, 2020 - 174 E Long Street had its 1970's era metal facade removed to expose the original brickwork. It appears more work needs to be done but at least the removal of the tin-can facade is a big improvement! The building is being redeveloped into mixed-use apartment complex with micro units by Connect Real Estate. It was originally known as the Standard Building when it was built in 1912 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings.
November 4, 2020 - Dublin Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library designed by NBBJ. Dublin, Ohio
For more about the Dublin Bridge Street District check out the website: bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov
June 24, 2023 - Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao was completed in 1997. Materials: titanium, glass and limestone.
July 10, 2023 - Torre de Belém (Belém Tower) "The Belém Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of Lisbon’s most striking monuments and the icon of a country historically moulded by its proximity to the ocean and its maritime discoveries of new worlds.
Discoveries by Portuguese navigators transformed Lisbon into the world’s main trade hub in the 15th and 16th centuries.
To protect the city, King João II conceived a pioneer project to defend Lisbon from enemy ships, a work completed in 1514 and which included the building of the Belém Tower, designed by architect Francisco de Arruda.
The tower’s unique design includes a modern and heavily armed bastion, protruding over the river.
King Manuel I clearly wished the Belém Tower to stand as a lasting symbol of his powerful reign by depicting the royal coat of arms, the armillary sphere and the cross of the Order of Christ." Previous description: www.visitlisboa.com/en/places/torre-de-belem
May 11, 2019 - A visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's Frederick C. Robie House just two weeks after the completion of a multi-year $11 million restoration. Located at 5757 S. Woodlawn Ave on The University of Chicago campus.
"Completed in 1910, the house Wright designed for Frederick C. Robie is the consummate expression of his Prairie style. The house is conceived as an integral whole—site and structure, interior and exterior, furniture, ornament and architecture, each element is connected. Unrelentingly horizontal in its elevation and a dynamic configuration of sliding planes in its plan, the Robie House is the most innovative and forward thinking of all Wright’s Prairie houses.
On the exterior, bands of brick and limestone anchor the building to the earth, while overhanging eaves and dramatic cantilevered roofs shelter the residence. The horizontality of the house is reinforced at every level of the design—from the iconic roofline, to the very bricks and mortar of the building itself. Through his use of materials, Wright achieves a remarkable balance of tone and color, as iron-flecked brick harmonizes with the iridescent leaded glass of the windows that encircle the building. Broad balconies and terraces cause interior and exterior space to flow together, while urns and planters at every level were intended to bloom with the seasons.
Leaded Glass doors, Robie House, photography by Tim LongThe expansive living space at the heart of the home is one of the great masterpieces of 20th century architecture and interior design. The light-filled open plan is breathtaking in its simplicity—a single room, comprising a living and dining space, divided only by a central chimney. Doors and windows of leaded glass line the room, flooding the interior with light. Iridescent, colored and clear glass composed in patterns of flattened diamond shapes and diagonal geometries evoke floral forms, while subtly echoing the plan and form of the building. In his design of the Robie House, Wright achieves a dynamic balance between transparency and enclosure, blurring the boundaries between interior space and the world of nature beyond.
In October of 1909, with construction underway at the Robie House, Wright left America for Europe to work on the publication of a substantial monograph of his buildings and projects. The result was the Wasmuth Portfolio of 1910, which introduced Wright’s work to Europe and influenced a generation of international architects. The Robie House would be the last of Wright’s true Prairie houses. On his return from Europe in 1910 Wright would continue to explore the concept of organic architecture but would seek new influences beyond that of the Midwest prairie.
Over the course of the twentieth century, the Robie House experienced a turbulent history of ownership. On his father’s death in 1909, Robie promised to settle his debts and was ultimately forced to sell the house. Two additional families lived at the residence, the Taylors from 1911 to 1912 and the Wilburs from 1912 to 1926. The Wilburs were the last family to live at the Robie House.
Frank Lloyd Wright at the Robie House, 1957, Collection of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation TrustFor the next seventy years the house would have a checkered existence, serving at times as a classroom building, a refectory, a dormitory, and office space for several organizations. The house was twice threatened with demolition, once in 1941 and then again in 1957. Wright himself campaigned each time to save the building. The Robie House was the only one of Wright’s many creations to inspire this reaction in him.
Wright would go on to create such masterpieces of modern architecture as Fallingwater, in 1939, and the Guggenheim Museum, completed in 1959. The Robie House, however, remains as one of the defining moments of the architect’s career. In 1991, the house was recognized by the American Institute of Architects as one of the ten most significant structures of the twentieth century. Today the Robie House stands as an important part of America’s cultural heritage, a powerful declaration of Wright’s uncompromising vision for a new American architecture.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust has completed a comprehensive restoration of the building, revealing Wright's extraordinary 1910 vision." Previous text from the following website: flwright.org/researchexplore/robiehouse
June 28, 2023 - Inside Real Colegiata de Santa María de Roncesvalles. For more information about the church: roncesvalles.es/en/cultural-heritage/
May 10, 2019 - Architect Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City located at 300 N. State St. Style: Mid-Century Modernism. Completion Date: 1967. For more information check out Chicago Architecture Center's website: www.architecture.org/learn/resources/buildings-of-chicago...
May 15, 2019 - "The complex of buildings at Hillside includes spaces from across Wright’s career as a designer: the “abstract forest” drafting studio (1939), the Hillside Assembly Hall (1903), the Hillside Theater (1955), and the Fellowship dining hall (1955). Hillside is home to the School of Architecture at Taliesin, and students in residence here from mid-May through mid-October may be seen at work in the studio. The Assembly Hall is an example of Wright’s strides to “destroy the box” of traditional architectural design. The Hillside Theater includes a theater curtain, that was adapted from a Wright-designed geometric abstraction of the Taliesin landscape." Previous text from the following website: www.taliesinpreservation.org/history/
June 28, 2020 - Exploring the City of Dublin Bridge Street District. Dublin, Ohio
For more about the Dublin Bridge Street District check out the website: bridgestreet.dublinohiousa.gov
November 29, 2020 - Neighborhood Launch development by the Edwards Companies East Gay Street Columbus, Ohio.
July 4, 2017 - "Completed in 967, Banteay Srei was the only major temple at Angkor not built for the king; instead it was constructed by one of king Rajendravarman's counsellors, Yajnyavahara. The temple was primarily dedicated to Shiva (the southern buildings and the central tower were devoted to him, but the northern ones to Vishnu). It lies near the hill of Phnom Dei 25 km (15 miles) northeast of the main group of temples, where the capital of the time (Yashodharapura) was located" Previous text from the following website: www.sacred-destinations.com/cambodia/angkor-banteay-srei
July 2, 2018 - The HOF Cultural and Conference Centre located at Strandgötu 12. Visit the building website for information about its design and purpose: www.mak.is/en/mak/hof
June 24, 2023 - Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao was completed in 1997. Materials: titanium, glass and limestone.
June 23, 2023 - Le Cloître de la Cathédrale Sainte-Marie was built between 1213 - 1240 and is one of the largest cloisters in France.
August 22, 2022 - DesignColumbus is the annual sustainable building conference and trade show expo which unites hundreds of industry professionals architects, designers, engineers, owners, developers, government officials, municipal planners, facility managers, contractors, construction managers, construction specifiers, manufacturers, product representatives.
It returned this year for a second time at the LEED Certified Mitchell Hall on the campus of Columbus State Community College. Last year the conference was held virtually due to the COVID pandemic.
Mitchell Hall is the New Home of the Columbus State's Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts Program. DesignGroup a Columbus/Pittsburgh firm was the building architect.
December 24, 2018 - The goal of this walk was to see the Azrieli Towers. The Azrieli Towers consists of three skyscrapers each with a different shape; square, triangle and circle. The circular building is the tallest of the three at 614 feet, Designed by Eli Attia Architects, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Moshe Zur Architects and the Associate Architect was Moore Yaski Sivan (MYS Architects).
This is an old one I hadn't realised I hadn't uploaded. From a shopping trip in Birmingham, I took my camera along and got a magnificent shot of the Selfridges building. Took it home and made it into monochrome, the clouds are much more intensified and the contrast between architecture and natural cloud contours are highly emphasised.