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Category Archives: Mitteleuropa
Fisheye Vienna: Mines & Explosions
Larger version. Via the marvellous JF Ptak Science Books. See Ptak Science Books for explanation and interpretation.
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Most people just go to see the building
Richard Meier’s new Arp Museum sits on a wooded slope overlooking the Rhine near Remagen. It is conceived as an annexe to the existing Rolandseck railway station which is also mostly converted to exhibition space, although the trains still stop. … Continue reading
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Wasser
Some pictures from Germany this summer: Above: Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (completed 1984). Spalling of stone associated with metal fixings. Above and below: Museum of Modern German Literature, Marbach am Neckar (completed 2006). Movement caused by water penetration/frost? At Marbach am … Continue reading
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Basilika, Trier
The building now known as the Basilika in Trier, Germany was actually the throne room of the Emperor Constantine and formed part of a wider palace complex when the city was a capital of the Roman Empire. The footprint of … Continue reading
Posted in Churches, CiA, Dominic Roberts, Mitteleuropa, Precedents, Travel
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An English pursuit
Postcard from The Museum of Modern German Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany. Architect: David Chipperfield. Batsman: Ivan Roberts. Bowler: Harry Miller.
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Primitive – Rustic – Classical
CiA recommends a visit to Tate Liverpool to see the exhibition GUSTAV KLIMT: PAINTING, DESIGN AND MODERN LIFE.The Klimt paintings, including the reconstruction of the Beethoven Frieze created for the Vienna Secession in 1902, present a necessarily limited selection of … Continue reading
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Philharmonie burns
BBC film and news item. Virtual tour.
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Adolf Loos: Anachronistically Alpine?
Following the Christmas post below, a few slides of the Khuner House by Adolf Loos (1930).Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Contemporary to the whitewashed masterpieces of his last phase…this country house that is so vernacular, so anachronistically alpine, so rustic, raises … Continue reading
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Loos Haus
In the years since our first visit to their Hotel-Restaurant the Steiner Family have, every Christmas, sent us a sprig of vegetation from the forest surrounding their building, better known to architects as the Khuner House by Adolf Loos. Guests … Continue reading
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Homage to the square…
CiA were saddened to hear of the death of the German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers in Cologne aged 81. Ungers exploited a controlled use of geometric form, particularly the square. His work represented a severity which redeemed classical order from … Continue reading
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WZB
James Stirling’s relationship with his clients and end users is no better demonstrated than the pride with which the architect and his work is presented on the site for Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Social Science Research Centre) in the Kulturforum. The eclectic … Continue reading
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