24 mars 2020

Recent history....


Not long ago, Kodak signs could be found all over the world. The company held a dominant position in photographic film for more than a century. Although Kodak developed the first handheld digital camera in 1975, the product was dropped for fear it would threaten Kodak's main income; its photographic film business. That attempt to “delay the future", was certainly a huge business mistake and the digital era would thirty-seven years later send the company nearly into bankruptcy. In 2014, Kodak negotiated with movie studios for an annual movie film order guarantee to preserve the last source of movie film manufacturing in the United States. Kodak announced in 2018 that the 135 and Super 8 format of Ektachrome is available again. However....the Kodak signs are gone everywhere.

12 mars 2020

The Portuguese built heritage is managed by ignorance, incompetence and brutality....

Lisboa, Rua Alexandre Herculano



  







This was a memorial plaque after one of Lisbon's iconic architects, Miguel Ventura Terra. The building (1903) was designed by him and classified since 2006. Unfortunately, the protection of the built heritage in Portugal is no less than an illusion. Brutus is on the loose....

10 mars 2020

Spa Bathhouse & Hotel....


Palm Springs, 1958, by William Cody, Donald Wexler, Richard Harrison and Phillip Koenig (demolished 2014)

Cree House....


..Palm Springs, 1955, by Albert Frey

09 mars 2020

Copper....


..Karlshamns Rådhus

05 mars 2020

Villa AE....


Värmdö, Stockholm, by Greger Stetz 

02 mars 2020

Carl Nyrén`s Handelshögskolan under demolition....








 ..1956


Vasagatan, Mars 2, 2020. Handelshögskolan från 1952 will soon become history.

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