homme-de-lettres:

Tschumi - Le Fresnoy

Those walkways are terrifying.

nickkahler:

Yuri Avvakumov, City-Club, 1984 (via domus)

Detail of Videotheque Booth by Kisho Kurokawa

(via RNDRD)

ryanpanos:

 Tiny Travelling Theatre by Aberrant Architecture

“The SMALL-COAL-MAN’S tiny travelling theatre”

The original site of the medieval well, from which Clerkenwell derives its name, is located on the northern edge of Clerkenwell Green. Notoriously, this marks the spot where mystery plays, wrestling matches, radical performances and other “dramatic representations” of a secretive nature have regularly occurred for centuries.

Indeed it is claimed that “the secret life of Clerkenwell, like its well, goes very deep. Many of its inhabitants seem to have imbibed the quixotic and fevered atmosphere of the area” and consequently strange existences have been allowed to flourish.

Art Destroying Architecture: Chris Burden’s 1985 Samson

“…a 100-ton jack connected to a gear box and a turnstile. The 100-ton jack pushes two large timbers against the bearing walls of the museum. Each visitor to the museum must pass through the turnstile in order to see the exhibition. Each input on the turnstile ever so slightly expands the jack, and ultimately if enough people visit the exhibition, SAMSON could theoretically destroy the building. Like a glacier its powerful movement is imperceptible to the naked eye.”

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neo-constructivist:

(via By abandoning fantasy for the more pragmatic aspects of building, the… - but does it float)

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obsessedbythegrid:

A. A. Dutto, Bogardus’s Ark, 2011

“…the attempt to survive a collective memory […] in an urban dense environment struggling with the same weapons: value and efficiency.” (article here)

drawingarchitecture:

Stacking green / Vo Trong Nghia + Daisuke Sanuki +   Shunri Nishizawa 

thingsmagazine:

Emanuele Luzzati’s “Classic Italy” fom the First Class Stairtower of the SS Ausonia

Drawings of the conference and concert halls of Chartres Business Park (unbuilt) by Bernard Tschumi, in Event-Cities: Praxis

praxismakesperfect:

victortsu: bouwkunst:

sections of Peter Zumthor’s house

betonbabe:

PETER COOK

WAY OUT WEST-BERLIN, 1988

(via reallysupercool)

Honourable Mention for Europan 11 - Infrastructure Behind The City, Dubrovnik, Croatia, by Gonzalo del Val and Gonzalo Gutiérrez

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