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Founded in 1897 by art historian George Fisk Comfort (co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City), the Everson has outgrown a number of facilities. This building was designed by I. M. Pei, and was opened in 1968. Both inside and out it is regarded as a work of art in its own right.
Apartment blocks never completed to house people left homeless in the 1988 earthquake
The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake (Armenian: Սպիտակի երկրաշարժ, romanized: Spitaki yerkrasharzh), occurred on December 7 at 11:41 local time with a surface-wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating). The shock occurred in the northern region of Armenia (then Armenian SSR, as part of the Soviet Union) which is vulnerable to large and destructive earthquakes and is part of a larger active seismic belt that stretches from the Alps to the Himalayas. Activity in the area is associated with tectonic plate boundary interaction and the source of the event was slip on a thrust fault just to the north of Spitak. The complex incident ruptured multiple faults, with a strike-slip event occurring shortly after the initiation of the mainshock. Between 25,000 and 50,000 were killed and up to 130,000 were injured.
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Founded in 1897 by art historian George Fisk Comfort (co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City), the Everson has outgrown a number of facilities. This building was designed by I. M. Pei, and was opened in 1968. Both inside and out it is regarded as a work of art in its own right.
..by Gu Wenda, a permanent collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999.
Media: human hair, glue, and rope.
Size: 75 feet high x 34 feet in diameter (about 23 Meters x 10 meters)
From the Victorian Heritage Database (citation written in 1999):
"Beaurepaire Tyre Services Pty. Ltd. erected the Bendigo garage in 1958 to replace earlier premises, also in Hargreaves Street, built in 1930. The company purchased the present site, at the corner of Edwards Street, in 1958, and built the circular structure to a design seen by Ian Beaurepaire on a tour through the United States of America. Alongside this building, a tyre factory was erected in cream brick, for the garage essentially repaired and sold automobile tyres. Parallel to Hargreaves Street, however, was a pump island, with Golden Fleece bowsers sheltered beneath the main building's circular canopy.
The Beaurepaire Tyre Service at Bendigo is of architectural significance to the State of Victoria.
The Beaurepaire Tyre Service garage was designed by prominent Melbourne architects, Eggleston, McDonald and Secomb, as a fantastic eye-catching building. As a 'round house' service station, Beaurepaire West Bendigo is unique in Victoria. Built in 1958 to a design seen by Ian Beaurepaire on a tour through North America, the service station reflected the growing influence of the United States in post-war architectural design. The Beaurepaire Tyre Service at Bendigo combines architecture and advertising. The building, round like a tyre, declares its function to passers-by.
The service station is also historically significant for its association with the Beaurepaire Tyre Service Pty Ltd, a large and successful retailer and manufacturer of automobile tyres founded in 1922 by Sir Frank Beaurepaire."
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Founded in 1897 by art historian George Fisk Comfort (co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City), the Everson has outgrown a number of facilities. This building was designed by I. M. Pei, and was opened in 1968. Both inside and out it is regarded as a work of art in its own right.
Architect: Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiners anthroposophic center Goetheanum in Dornach/Switzerland
photographed by
Frank Dinger
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Founded in 1897 by art historian George Fisk Comfort (co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City), the Everson has outgrown a number of facilities. This building was designed by I. M. Pei, and was opened in 1968. Both inside and out it is regarded as a work of art in its own right.
Founded in 1897 by art historian George Fisk Comfort (co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City), the Everson has outgrown a number of facilities. This building was designed by I. M. Pei, and was opened in 1968. Both inside and out it is regarded as a work of art in its own right.
photographed by
Frank Dinger
BECOMING - office for visual communication
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architecture photography movie by Frank Dinger:
The 'Arizona Pavilion,' Arizona Intake Tower at the Hoover Dam. For some reason, I keep thinking about the eagle from the Muppets.
Perched quietly on Russell Street near Covent Garden, the Fortune Theatre is one of the West End’s smallest yet most enduring venues, seating just 432 patrons. Designed by architect Ernest Schaufelberg and built between 1922–1924, it was London’s first new theatre after the First World War and one of the first public buildings to showcase exposed and textured concrete. Its striking façade, with bush-hammered finishes and an iconic sculpture of the Muse Terpsichore by M.H. Crichton, lends the theatre a unique architectural gravitas amid larger neighbours like the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane across the street.
The Fortune opened on 8 August 1924 with Sinners by its founder, Laurence Cowen. Over the decades, it welcomed legends like Judi Dench and Dirk Bogarde, but its global notoriety came with The Woman in Black, which haunted the theatre from 1989 until 2023 — making it one of the longest-running plays in West End history. In 2023, the baton passed to Operation Mincemeat, injecting fresh musical comedy into a venue steeped in dramatic legacy.
From marble foyer to copper ticket booth, the Fortune may be compact, but its theatrical footprint is substantial.
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Un théâtre au charme durable
Une petite scène au cœur de Covent Garden
Discrètement niché sur Russell Street près de Covent Garden, le Fortune Theatre est l’un des plus petits théâtres du West End avec seulement 432 sièges. Conçu par l’architecte Ernest Schaufelberg et construit entre 1922 et 1924, il fut le premier théâtre londonien édifié après la Première Guerre mondiale et l’un des premiers à adopter le béton exposé comme élément de façade architecturale. La statue emblématique de Terpsichore, muse de la danse, sculptée par M.H. Crichton, surplombe fièrement son entrée.
Inauguré avec Sinners de Laurence Cowen, le théâtre a accueilli de grandes figures de la scène britannique. Mais c’est The Woman in Black qui en a fait une légende du West End, avec une longévité de 34 ans. Depuis 2023, c’est la comédie musicale Operation Mincemeat qui s’y joue, redonnant un élan contemporain à cette institution historique.
Un bijou architectural discret, mais essentiel.
Robin Hood Gardens are scheduled for demolition. The architecture is interesting, but the place is run down. It's a shame because the Gardens have potential: not least because they are right next to Canary Wharf.
Toyo Ito's "TOD's Omotesando" @ Tokyo, Japan
added to Cream of the Crop as my most interesting photo