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architectureofdoom:

Max Zerrahn

208 ♥ / 18 May, 2013

indianahistoricroads:

Architectural Affordances of the Void
”..when you consider an object, it is what you see that makes the object beautiful and what you don’t see that makes it useful. A bowl has a visible shape, color, and texture to admire, it also sculpts out an empty space that gives the bowl its utility—this is the space where you can actually put something into the bowl.”
Nardi and O’Day, Information Ecologies, 1999.
Architectural empty spaces, sculpted by the infrastructure of a Tokyo railway viaduct, provide affordances for other structures. The void fosters utility. Via BETONBABE.

186 ♥ / 18 May, 2013

booksnbuildings:

Pulteney Bridge, Bath from “behind”
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244 ♥ / 18 May, 2013

landscape35mm:

Few buildings are vast enough to hold the sound of time, and now it seemed to George that there was a superb fitness in the fact that the one which held it better than all others should be a railroad station. For here, as nowhere else on earth, men were brought together for a moment at the beginning or end of their innumerable journeys, here one saw their greetings and farewells, here, in a single instant, one got the entire picture of the human destiny. Men came and went, they passed and vanished, and all were moving through the moments of their lives to death, all made small tickings in the sound of time — but the voice of time remained aloof and unperturbed, a drowsy and eternal murmur below the immense and distant roof.

Thomas Wolfe

8 ♥ / 15 May, 2013

numat:

Parque Central. Caracas, Venezuela.

228 ♥ / 27 April, 2013

archimaps:

The main entrance of the Grand Palais in 1900, Paris

139 ♥ / 27 April, 2013

archimaps:

View from Pont Alexandre III onto the International Pavilions at the World’s Fair in 1900, Paris

152 ♥ / 27 April, 2013

archimaps:

Project design for reusing the Eiffel Tower structure as a central hall for the World’s Fair in 1900, Paris

55 ♥ / 27 April, 2013

archimaps:

The Roller Skating Rink in 1884, Detroit

52 ♥ / 25 April, 2013

archimaps:

The building of the Hannoverscher Anzeiger in 1930, Hannover

72 ♥ / 25 April, 2013

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