Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
May 26, 2009
Architecture: Unrealised Projects for Moscow
Let's kick off the rerun series from... the beginning. The first Martin Klasch post ever posted:
(from 2005-05-02)
Palace of Soviets (Dom Sovetov). O.Iofan, O.Gelfreikh, V.Schuko. Sculptor S.Merkulov. A Version of the approved project. 1934
Schusev State Museum of Architecture Moscow: The Architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Unrealised projects
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Related post:
Vintage postcard: World exposition 1937
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March 17, 2009
September 20, 2008
Architecture: Modernist Gas Stations
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| From grootveld.net |
Former "Auto Palace" Nijmegen (Texaco)
Architects: Meerman en Vd. Pijll. Built in 1953
Top 15 modernist gas stations
Bonus link: Flickr pool Vintage Gas Stations
via PCL LinkDump
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September 7, 2008
Movie: L'homme de Rio
uploaded by yashiro69
L'homme de Rio aka That Man from Rio (1964) with Jean-Paul Belmondo
But... but, he's not in Rio!
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August 7, 2008
Book Covers: Architecture paperbacks
Architecture paperbacks - a set on Flickr
by maraid
Maraid Design | Blog
Via Mr J
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July 28, 2008
May 14, 2008
Transportation: Yesterday's Airports of Today
"This is a 1935 model for an underground air terminal. After landing, aircraft would go underground to various levels for passengers, maintenance, and cargo loading. Connections to ground transportation are at the lowest level."
Quote and image from The Smithsonian website - America by Air.
Via BibliOdyssey
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January 7, 2008
September 26, 2007
Vintage postcard: World exposition 1937
An interesting postcard from the world exposition - Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne - in Paris 1937. The Nazi-German pavilion on the left placed directly across the Stalin-Soviet pavilion on the right. Talk about premonition of things to come.
Uploaded to Vintage photographs by h rust
The German pavilion was designed by Albert Speer (and sculptor Josef Thorak) and the Soviet pavilion by Boris Mihailovich Iofan (and sculptor Vera Mukhina). Need I say they both were awarded the gold medal?
Please go here for more postcards and photos from the exposition!
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September 24, 2007
Fetish: Librophilia
"Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it's castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it's abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner. For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is nothing more magical than a beautiful old library.""...Curious Expeditions has attempted to gather together the world's most beautiful libraries for you..."
Via Canta Piriquito Canta
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Highly related earlier post
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April 12, 2007
Architecture: The Space Needle
About the Seattle Space Needle and the rest of the Century 21 Exposition of 1962 in this post at BibliOdyssey.
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February 10, 2007
Architecture: Cinemas
Cinema postcards and photos
Via Peanut Butter Sandwich
Related posts:
- Fontänen
- Biografbilder (from ancient times when this blog was written in Swedish!)
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January 29, 2007
Architecture: The Futuro House
Via Rollmops in Kanzlerbunker
"Futuro is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, about 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance... /continue wikipedia article (short)/"
www.futuro-house.net
Photo gallery
PS I thought I had posted about this a long time ago but I couldn't find anything in the archives. At the worst it'll be a repost ;)
December 2, 2006
Architecture: The Playboy Townhouse
The Ultimate The Playboy Townhouse could have looked something like this in 1962. Looks alright to me in 2006. The article is from the May 1962 issue of Playboy.
Via PCL LinkDump
October 24, 2006
Architecture: New Swedish embassy in Washington
"House of Sweden" -the new Swedish embassy on 2900 K Street in Georgetown, Washington DC was inaugurated by the royals today. The architects are Gert Wingårdh and Tomas Hansen.
Top image from DN
October 22, 2006
Architecture: Cinema Fontänen in Vällingby
Watch a clip about the building and inauguration of the movie theater Fontänen (clip link) 50 years ago. It was the theater of the equally new Stockholm suburb called Vällingby (clip from inauguration of Vällingby Centrum). That suburb was one of several being built around Stockholm at that time. They were so called new ABC-suburbs/towns. A stood for workplaces, B for living and C for center. Internationally these towns built up from virtually nothing were called, rightfully so, New towns. Vällingby was the first and probably the better one and it caused quite some international interest (and still do among architects and city planners). Today Vällingby is going through major change with outdoor shopping being roofed and so forth, but as it is now a part of Swedish architectural history it has to be done carefully. The Fontänen is no exception. Four salons has been added underground but above ground it pretty much looks like when it first was built.
October 19, 2006
October 18, 2006
Architecture: Buildings in the former USSR
Buildings in the former USSR
Tip via sweet Natasha over at Radio Oh-la-la. Visit for some great francophone music! Mercí and spasiba!
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