Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Unrealised Projects For Moscow
Let's kick off the 10 year anniversary rerun series with the first Martin Klasch post ever, from 2nd of May 2005.
Palace of Soviets (Dom Sovetov). O.Iofan, O.Gelfreikh, V.Schuko. Sculptor S.Merkulov. A Version of the approved project. 1934
Original link broken
New links: Moscow architecture from the 1930s to the early 1950s, Unrealised Stalinist Moscow, Moskow 30 50 Unrealised Projects (slideshow)
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Related post: Vintage postcard: World exposition 1937
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The Martin Klasch 10 year anniversary rerun series
Arne Jacobsen Gas Station
The Stockholm Exhibition (1930)
Image sources: Wikipedia: Stockholmsutställningen 1930, Wikipedia: Stockholm Exhibition (1930), Kornknarren, Stockholms historia, + my own photos and scans.
Wikipedia: Stockholm Exhibition (1930)
"The fair was significant in the history of architecture in Stockholm, firmly establishing functionalism as the dominant architectural style in Sweden."
"The two head architects were Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz."
"All of the fair buildings were temporary. But the fair's ideas lived on and influenced the shape of Swedish housing for years to come."
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If you click the images you might find some more information
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Photography: Palast der Republik
Spiegel Online: Thorsten Klapsch: "Palast der Republik"
"The Palast der Republik was a showpiece building in East Berlin, a congress hall as well as a center for public entertainment. By 1993 it had been sealed off to the public. Thorsten Klapsch was the last photographer to capture its interiors before a long period of demolition began."
Via Coudal Partners
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Book Covers/Architecture: The Coolest Building in Brussels
"Dutch detective of Eric Walter (een moord in het N.I.R.) issued in Belgium 1941. Pulp issue, cover by: De Greef" from twincovercollector's Flickr
Flagey, Brussels, Belgium (photo)
"Flagey Square is famous for the art deco building occupying its entire southern side, the former Maison de la Radio (renamed to "Flagey" in 2002 and now hosting a cultural center)" (Wikipedia) It was built between 1935-38 and designed by Belgian architect Joseph Diongre. (1) If you visit don't miss the Café Belga which you'll find in the Flagey building. (See photo)
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Architecture: Ford Times, Nov 1959
"Editor's note: As backgrounds for the 1960 Fords, we chose ten wonderful, but unavailable, sites in America's most spectacular scenery, much of which is in national parks and monuments. We then asked R. A. Hermes, graduate architect, to design houses that would take full advantage of each site, against renderings of them by Charles Harper, we photo composed the new models. On the cover you saw a spherical plastic house which would achieve the ultimate in prefabrication since it has no footings or foundation. The tree house on the inside front cover, designed for Sequoia National Park, could be assembled on the ground, then hoisted like a dough nut up a sapling. There are eight other dream houses, each a setting for cars that are not just a dream= "A Wonderful New World of Fords" described in detail on these pages." Ford Times, Nov 1959
This text/image/great set is found at David at The Klockarp Institute's Flickr. He's just swell, go see!
Via butdoesitfloat.com.
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