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A book of Budapest Cafés by a Hungarian photographer, Frankl Aljona, bought in the Mai Mano bookshop.
The notable Hungarian photographer, Mai Mano's former home and studio, now The Hungarian House of Photography, exhibition hall, bookshop and café.
Architects: Nay & Strausz, 1894. Eclectic Neo-renaissance style.
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Mai Manó House, The Hungarian House of Photography operates in a studio-house built for the commission of Mai Manó (1855-1917), Imperial and Royal Court Photographer. His eight-story studio-house and home was built in fourteen months, in 1893-94.
This special, eight-story neo-renaissance monument is unique in world architecture: we have no knowledge of any other intact turn-of-the-century studiohouse. In addition, it serves its original goal, the case of photography again.
Mai Manó was a professional photographer and specialist, in his time he was one of the best specialists of child portraits. His status in the professional community of that time is uncontested. He was also the founder and editor of the periodical called A Fény (The Light, launched in 1906)
The building's richly decorated neo-renaissance façade clearly served ideological purposes: Mai Manó wanted to lend a past to the young trade, hardly considered to be a form of art by anyone at that time. Take the majolica putti between the ground floor and the mezzanine or the façade paintings on the third floor showing the "six muses of photography".
Actual photographing took place in the Sunlight-studio on the second floor, we restored in 1996-97. During the restoration, we found the original frescoes hiding bethind the white wallpaper for decades. These used to serve as background for Mai's portraits. His studio worked in the house for four decades, until 1931. It was followed by a luxury-bar, Arizona, which was closed in 1944.
After the Second World War, a number of institutions and companies moved into the house and a few private apartments were separated as well. In spite of all the vicissitudes, the house kept its original character. It was declared a piece of national heritage in 1996 considering its special architecture, ornaments and industry-historical significance.
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January 20th, 2016
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Another shot from a recent trip to NYC. This time from the New York Public Library. New York City can be loud. At times it is obnoxiously loud. What a contrast in sound levels from inside this magnificent space, and what a great space it is. In truth the loudest sound was the thunderclap of my shutter which I tried to be quick about.
"The Deborah, Jonathan F. P., Samuel Priest, and Adam R. Rose Main Reading Room is a majestic public space, measuring 78 feet by 297 feet—roughly the length of two city blocks—and weaving together Old World architectural elegance with modern technology. The award-wining restoration of this room was completed in 1998, thanks to a fifteen million-dollar gift from Library trustee Sandra Priest Rose and Frederick Phineas Rose, who renamed the room in honor of their children." web
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May 31st, 2014
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June 16th, 2015
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John Hancock Observatory | 360 CHICAGO
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December 19th, 2016
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National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC opened Sept. 2004. Initially designed by Native American architect Douglas Cardinal, the building’s distinctive curvilinear form, evoking a wind-sculpted rock formation, grew out of his early work and formed the basis for the overall design. Following Cardinal’s conceptual design work, the project was further developed by Jones, House, and Sakiestewa, along with the architecture firms Jones & Jones, SmithGroup in collaboration with Lou Weller (Caddo) and the Native American Design Collaborative, and Polshek Partnership Architects. This extended collaboration resulted in a building and site rich with imagery, layers of meaning, and connections to the earth.
Pioneer Square, Seattle WA
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art"
Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa
You generally have to fly into Pisa International Airport for Florence, so it would be a missed opportunity not to visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa at some point during our city break and get that tick in the box of another world architectural icon. We decided to visit on our way back to the airport, but unfortunately you don’t get dropped off anywhere near, so we jumped in a taxi and headed back. Pisa is a surprisingly big town and it took a good 20mins (through a lot of back streets I might add) to get to the Campo dei Miracoli or Piazza dei Miracoli, which means Field of Miracles or Square of Miracles... you take your pick!
There are 4 main buildings in the Piazza dei Miracoli: - the cathedral – Duomo di Pisa, the Baptistery. Work started on the campanile third in sequence but the cemetery, Campo Santo, was completed ahead of the tower, which took centuries to complete for obvious reasons.
We only had 30mins here (didn’t have chance to climb the tower, which I would most certainly have done time permitting) hence the touristy shots.
Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies and Education City Mosque is located on the Education City Campus, Doha, Qatar.
Project by Mangera Yvars Architects, London, United Kingdom.
2015 World Architecture Festival Singapore, Best Religious Building award.
The new section of the ROM museum has a crystal style architecture very unique (representing crystal growth formation in nature).
Enhanced in Landscape Pro software. Sunset view with photo captured early evening in 2018.
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Instantly hailed as the most important structure of its time, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently celebrated a decade of extraordinary success on October 19, 2007. With close to ninety exhibitions and over ten million visitors to its credit, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao forever changed the way the world thinks about museums, and it continues to challenge our assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection has a unique, yet complementary, identity from the collections at the other Guggenheim institutions, featuring works by some of the most significant artists of the second half of the 20th century: Eduardo Chillida, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Clyfford Still, Antoni Tàpies, and Andy Warhol, among others.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovialand located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "single moment in the architectural culture" because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something."The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Smoke on the Water
Some interesting facts on Disneys Epcot. It opened its doors October 1, 1982, was inspired by an unrealized concept by Walt Disney himself. Epcot is dedicated to the many years of human achievement and international food cultures.
Its hosts the wine and cheese festival every October, and a huge flower show early spring.
Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park
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May 7th, 2014
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Sunrise over cherry blossom park and tower background in Seoul city, South Korea, this image can use for travel, night, cityscape, sakura, and holiday concept
View from the Signature Room at John Hancock Center.
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July 28th, 2012
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11/28/2012
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Chicago River
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May 31st, 2016
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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial[3] and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists.
One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture" because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something."[4] The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.
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Bilbao Arachnophobia - Guggenheim
CopenHill or Amager Bakke is a combined heat and power plant and recreational facility in Copenhagen. The sports facility was designed by the architects Bjarke Ingels Group with an 85 m (279 ft) tall sloped roof that doubles as year-round artificial ski slope, hiking slope and climbing wall. CopenHill was named the "World Building of the Year 2021" at the annual World Architecture Festival.
The plant opened in 2017. It is expected to burn 400,000 tons of municipal solid waste annually. Because of filtration and other technologies, sulphur emission is expected to be reduced by 99.5% and NOx by about 95%. It is claimed to be the cleanest incineration plant in the world.
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The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, USA.
Designed in 1888 and begun in 1892, the cathedral has undergone radical stylistic changes and interruption of construction by the two World Wars. Originally designed in the Byzantine Revival-Romanesque Revival styles, the plan was changed after 1909 to a Gothic Revival design.
There is some dispute about whether this cathedral or Liverpool Cathedral is the world's largest Anglican cathedral and church. The building is the fifth largest Christian church in the world.
Architectural styles: Romanesque Revival and Gothic Revival
Christian denomination: Episcopal Church (Protestant)
The Cathedral of Monreale, also called Santa Maria la Nuova, is a Sicilian masterpiece built during the Middle Ages. Is one of the best examples of coexistence between Islamic, Byzantine and Romanesque cultures. The church was founded by the Norman king William the II between 1174 and 1189, at the same time with the Abbey, the Royal Palace and the Archbishop’s Palace with which it constitutes a complex, expanded during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The external part of the Cathedral shows its Arab-Norman nature, with arches, windows and coloured marbles which are typical expressions of that kind of architecture. ..
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June 22nd, 2013
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This is the Oslo Opera House which was designed by the firm Snohetta and completed in 2007. It is located at the head of the Oslofjord and mimics and iceberg.The Opera House won the culture award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in October 2008 and the 2009 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (Mies van der Rohe award).
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According to the legend, the Foundation stone of the temple was founded by Peter I. the Church was looted during the time of the war of 1812. Personally Napoleon, fascinated by the grandeur and richness of the temple gave the order to take out of him values in France, but because of the Smolensk peasants almost all of the interior was returned to the temple. Has not returned only antique silver chandelier, which was sawed to pieces; in return for the lost Emperor Alexander I sent a new bronze with crystal pendants. In the Soviet time the Church survived, thanks to the fact, that was included by the League of Nations in the list of outstanding monuments of world architecture. / По преданию, камень в основание храма был заложен Петром I. Храм был разграблен во время войны 1812г. Лично Наполеон, очарованный великолепием и богатством храма отдал приказ вывезти из него ценности во Францию, но благодаря смоленским крестьянам почти все убранство было возвращено храму. Не вернулось только старинное серебряное паникадило, которое распилили на куски; взамен утраченного император Александр I прислал новое бронзовое с хрустальными подвесками. В советское время храм уцелел, благодаря тому, что был включен Лигой Наций в список выдающихся памятников мировой архитектуры.
San Mamés (La Catedral) es un estadio de fútbol ubicado en Bilbao. Fue inaugurado en su primera fase de construcción el 16 de septiembre de 2013 y es el sucesor del antiguo San Mamés. Es utilizado principalmente por el Athletic Club para la práctica del fútbol. El campo tiene una capacidad de 53 289 localidades (ampliable en 2000 más, según el arquitecto César Azcárate), y cuenta con el rango de estadio de Categoría 4, el máximo otorgado por la UEFA, por lo que puede ser sede de la Eurocopa y albergar finales de la Liga Europa; no así de la Liga de Campeones, ya que ésta requiere un aforo mayor.
La primera piedra se colocó el 26 de mayo de 2010 y las obras comenzaron oficialmente el 25 de junio del mismo año. El estadio se realizó en dos fases: en la primera se llevó a cabo la construcción de los dos laterales y uno de los fondos, mientras que en la segunda se construyó el último fondo y se habilitaron los palcos VIP. Se estimó que el estadio estaría totalmente construido en la primavera de 2015, aunque el Athletic Club comenzó a jugar en él a partir de la temporada 2013/14, a falta de la construcción de uno de los fondos. El estadio fue inaugurado en su primera fase de construcción, el lunes 16 de septiembre de 2013.
El 19 de septiembre de 2014, la UEFA eligió San Mamés como una de las 13 sedes de la Eurocopa 2020. Se jugarán cuatro partidos: tres de la fase de grupos y uno de octavos de final.
El 5 de noviembre de 2015, San Mamés fue premiado en el World Architecture Festival, celebrado en Singapur, como el mejor edificio deportivo del mundo de nueva construcción.
Recientemente (11 y 12 de Mayo de 2018) se transformó por primera vez en un campo de rugby para acoger las finales europeas de la Challenge Cup y la Champions Cup. 24-10-2015.
North Avenue Beach
Chicago, IL
1-6-2012
Taken with an iPhone using AutoStitch, Camera+ & Sunrise Sunset
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jørn utzon turns ninety today and the Danish press abounds with misinformation about this elusive master of architecture.
"the utzon center" in aalborg, denmark, opens today. designed by utzon with the help of his sons, claim the newspapers. impressive news considering his failing eyesight, not to mention the fact that utzon closed down his office when the production of construction drawings for kuwait national assembly moved to max walt's office in zürich in the mid 1970's.
the utzon center in aalborg is designed by kim utzon, his youngest son, who is also the architect behind another utzon news story today: "jørn utzon designs 22 single family houses in skagen". no, he doesn't. the son does. inspired by his father, no doubt, but a novel inspired by stendhal is not a novel by stendhal. it really is that simple.
another misunderstanding from today, and I quote: "today the opera is being restored following the original drawings". sadly it isn't. it is being restored to designs by jan utzon. his design abilities can be studied here: Las Pulgas
increasingly, I am reminded of the actions of nietzsche's sister and mother after he fell ill.
but members of his family are not the only ones to fail utzon's legacy. today saw the publication of a 260 page book dealing only with his design for the national assembly in kuwait. I left work early to secure a copy for myself. the parliament building has been published extensively already but the three different designs for a mosque that utzon did in connection with it have received little coverage. sadly, the new book is no different.
seen in connection with the fact that a recent book on the church in bagsværd did not include a particular sectional sketch in which the vaults can be seen as a piece of stylized arabic calligraphy, and the fact that richard weston's huge book on utzon dismisses his great design for farum town centre as being too islamic, I can only see this as a sign of today's islamophobia. utzon himself never displayed such sentiments and indeed his work cannot be understood without the east.
in 1948, utzon wrote: "different types of nature arise from the same seeds under different conditions. the conditions in our times are completely different from those that existed before, but the essence of architecture, the seed, is the same".
this belief, that the fundamentals of architecture are the same regardless of culture and age, meant that utzon could learn equally from ancient iranian masters and from modern engineering. ultimately, it means that cultures can learn from each other, that we are not separate but that we share values and experiences intrinsic to being human. in todays political climate, that amounts to optimism. utzon's architecture, said sverre fehn, is world-architecture. I return to it for the comfort of wisdom in an age where exchange between the cultures seems reduced to insult, trade or bullets.
the photo shows an original utzon design:
middelboe house, holte, denmark.
architect jorn utzon, 1953-1955.
photographer is my good colleague christoffer pilgaard.
1st of October - World Architecture Day
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"Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank Owen Goldberg; 28 February 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles.
A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France; MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies on the University of Cincinnati campus; Experience Music Project in Seattle; New World Center in Miami Beach; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and the museum MARTa Herford in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City."
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Not sure if the coloured glass fins on the sides of the Hawkins/Brown designed University of Oxford Biochemistry Department building has a logic to them or if they're entirely random but they certainly make for a distinctive addition to the mostly bland buildings of the Science Area.
Winner of the recently announced 2011 World Architecture News Colour Award.
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Frank Owen Gehry, CC is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions and many customers seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction. His works were by far the most often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of "paper architecture" – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years.
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Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank[1] Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age".[2]
Gehry's best-known works include the titanium-covered Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; Dancing House in Prague; the Vitra Design Museum and MARTa Museum in Germany; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; the Cinémathèque française in Paris; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City. But it was his private residence in Santa Monica, California, which jump-started his career, lifting it from the status of "paper architecture" – a phenomenon that many famous architects have experienced in their formative decades through experimentation almost exclusively on paper before receiving their first major commission in later years. Gehry is also the designer of the future Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
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February 26th, 2015
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Even the most beautiful health centre in Sweden? Winner in the category "Best Health Building" at World Architecture Festival 2016. www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/2016-category-winners
Glass facades in different colors that reflects the surroundings. Built in 2016 on pillars over a parking lot in Bergsjön, a suburb of Gothenburg. Health center owned by four of the doctors and one nurse.
Architect: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor (Anders Olausson and Gert Wingårdh).
www.wingardhs.se (website only in English).
Developer: Nötkärnan Vård och Omsorg AB och Bergsjön Vårdcentral och BVC AB.
www.bergsjonvardcentral.se (website only in Swedish).