24 april 2009

Attention Carl Gustav...!

The egg, developed for the lobby and reception areas at the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958.

..this chair is a delight for your eye, but it will dig a large hole in your wallet….and give you some pain in your back!

Cedar Park House....

....by architect Peter Cohan, and the Y-chairs (CH 24) designed by Hans J. Wegner,1950

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery 1969....

Mutual Benefit Life Plaza 1968....

Wong - Pereira Associates

23 april 2009

April....in Sweden

Vitsippa (Anemone nemorosa)

Twin Palms late 40`s....

The Sinatra House, Palm Springs, E. Stewart Williams
.
....guess why this place is called Twin Palms ?

22 april 2009

Felipe Assadi e Francisca Pulido....



Casa Gatica, Rancagua, Chile, 2006

Old....and new!



Hoogte Kadijk, Amsterdam, Claus en Kaan Architecten, 1998

21 april 2009

Hamilton House....1991



Vaucluse, Sydney, Harry Seidler and Associates

The 1928 Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam....

2 de Maio de 1962, Benfica - Real Madrid, (5-3)



....since that day even the window frames remained red !
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..designed by Jan Wils.

20 april 2009

House dreams for filmmakers....

Vandamm House, by MGM for "North by Northwest" directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1959.

Union 76....

Beverly Hills, 1965, Gin Wong - William L. Pereira

Peter Behrens....

Terrassenhaus, Stuttgart, 1926

De La Warr Pavilion....

Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, 1933–1935

Koerfer House....

Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard, Switzerland, 1967

Rådhuset....(court house)

Gunnar Asplund, Göteborg, 1935-37

Bellevue....

Arne Jacobsen, Copenhagen, 1934

19 april 2009

The Ara Pacis Museum....

I have no complains about this building....

but...was the the centre of Rome the right place ?

...Richard Meier, Roma, 2006....

Columbia City Area....

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....thank`s Tom !

Willis N. Mills, residence...1956


18 april 2009

UNStudio....


Five Franklin Place, NY, 2007
.
Stadhouderskade 113... is producing some very good stuff !

Henning Larsen....

IT University of Copenhagen, 2004

Delta-shelter-1....

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, Washington State, 2008

Werner Sobek....

House R 128, Stuttgart, 2000

NOLASTER...


Casa Os, Loredo, Ribamontán al Mar, Cantabria, España, 2005

17 april 2009

Wiley Residence, Del Mar, CA....

Frederick Liebhardt & Eugene Weston, 1965

16 april 2009

Definitely....a good team !

.... Strinning, Eames and Colombo....
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"That’s not surprising when you notice how cleverly Nils Strinning combined the inventor’s demand for functionality with the aesthetes feeling for proportion and detail. The result is a timeless combination – at once classical and contemporary."
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....and this shelf still available here !

Bach Auricon Inc.

Film sound, LA, 1954 (demolished)

Luigi Moretti....

Casa Astrea, Via Jenner 27, Roma, 1949

Casa Girasole, Viale Bruno Buozzi 50, Roma, 1947

15 april 2009

Julius Hoffmann....

Autohaus Assenheimer Heilbronn, 1957

14 april 2009

Curtis & Davis architects....


Thomy Lafon Elementary School, New Orleans, 1954

12 april 2009

Remember the Esherick House...?




Philadelphia, Louis Kahn,1961
.
....form, function and quality....

Wenceslaus A. Sarmiento....

Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan, LA, 1956