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Category Archives: Travel
Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation
The designer can create small valuable elements within a much larger composition that can affect the quality of a much larger space. Within the hot climate of Mallorca, Rafael Moneo has used the natural qualities of light and water to … Continue reading
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Curve and countercurve: Zaha Hadid in Rome
The continuity of the urban grid of northern Rome is relieved by an infrequent series of curved structures, Pier Luigi Nervi’s Palazzetto dello Sport, Renzo Piano’s Auditorium di Roma and Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI , due for completion in 2009. The … Continue reading
St Antonius, Basel
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. A concrete church. Architect: Karl Moser, 1927-1931. The church sits parallel to the street, continuing the edge of the block. The entrance is via a strange double-sided portico with stepped portals (one portal for the street, … Continue reading
Matthias Grünewald at the Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France
 Continuity in Architecture recommend an exhibition that celebrates the work of the 16th century artist, Matthias Grünewald. The centrepiece is the Isenheim Altarpiece, a work of art that is still both startling and terrifying almost 500 years after its creation. … Continue reading
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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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Yesteryear in Milan
The small Archaeological Museum on Corso Magenta in Milan hosts a new model of the ancient city of Mediolanum which helps explain the spider’s web of the present urban form. A general view of the model, with north to the … Continue reading
Yesterday in Milan
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Yesterday in Milan. Torre Velasca by BBPR (Gianluigi Banfi, Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Rogers), 1954.
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Venice last week
Venice last week.
Makom at Chatsworth
This Inside Then And Apparently (press release): Michal Rovner, the renowned installation artist whose show in the Israeli Pavilion was one of the highlights of the Venice Biennale in 2003, has created a new piece inspired by the grounds and … Continue reading
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Museum
The long awaited rehousing of the Ara Pacis Augustae in Rome, by Richard Meier is a sensitive solution to the problems of a difficult site and a precious historical object. Although slightly heavily handled in parts the sense of durability … Continue reading
Royan, France (not Royan, Iran)
From Wikipedia: During the Second World War, two German fortresses defended the Gironde Estuary: Gironde Mündung Nord (or Royan) and Gironde Mündung Süd (or La Pointe de Grave). These constitued one of the Atlantic “pockets” which the Germans held on … Continue reading