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Eero Saarinen (1910 – 1961) Finnish | American architect designer

On: February 20, 2021

Tagged: airport, america, american, american design, architect, architects, architectural, architecture, building, buildings, chair, chairs, decor, Design, designed, designs, fibreglass, finnish designer, finnish designers, furnishing, furniture, lounge, modern, new york

Eero Saarinen (1910 – 1961) Finnish architect. He was born in Kirkkonummi. He was professionally active in the USA. The son of Eliel and Loja Saarinen.Read More →

William Van Alen (1883 – 1954) American architect (Chrysler Building)

On: February 19, 2021

Tagged: america, american, american design, american designers, architect, architecture, art, Art deco, automobile, building, buildings, decoration, decorative, gargoyle

William Van Alen (1883 – 1954) was an American architect born in Brooklyn, New York. He was professionally active in New York.Read More →

Gino Valle (1923 – 2003) Italian architect, designer and town planner

On: February 19, 2021

Tagged: airport, architect, architecture, brutalism, brutalist, building, buildings, Design, designed, designer, industrial, italian, Italian Design, italian designers, italy, mid-century, milan, modern

Gino Valle (1923 – 2003) was. Italian architect, designer, and town planner. He was born in Udine. He studied at the Instituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice, to 1948. From 1951, he was at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Read More →

Re-Imagining New York’s Central Park after an Eco-Terrorist Attack

On: January 1, 2019

Tagged: aerial, america, architecture, attack, autumn, building, buildings, central, central park, city, cityscape, day, downtown, exterior, fall, famous, foliage, garden, green, high, iconoclast, image, lake, landmark, landscape, large, life, manhattan, midtown, nature, new york, nyc, offices, park, pond, scene, scenic, sky, skyline, skyscraper, square, street, summer, tall, Terrorist, tourism, tower, travel, tree, urban, usa, view, yellow, york

On this day, one hundred years ago, Central Park’s vegetation was suddenly wiped out. In a few days, one of the world’s most cherished landscapes disappeared without a trace. The Gaians were extremely violent in drawing attention to the planetary destruction we were causing. Periods of mourning following brutal attacks areRead More →

Jaw-Dropping Images of Moscow as Winter Wonderland

On: January 1, 2019

Tagged: aerial, architecture, background, beautiful, Blue, bridge, building, business, center, city, cityscape, day, Design, district, downtown, europe, evening, exterior, financial, futuristic, glass, high, landmark, landscape, modern, Moscow, moscow city, night, office, outdoor, panorama, Photography, reflection, river, russia, russian, sightseeing, sky, skyscraper, skyscrapers, summer, sunset, tall, tourism, tower, travel, twilight, urban, view

It’s no great stretch to associate Moscow with the winter – after all, the stock image of a Russian usually includes full coat, furry hat, the whole nine yards. What we’ve seldom seen are representations of the beauty of the Russian winter, and that’s where Kristina Makeeva comes in. Source:Read More →

Fondazione Prada Torre / OMA

On: April 19, 2018

Tagged: building

Fondazione Prada Torre / OMA Save this picture! © Bas Princen. Courtesy Fondazione Prada + 24 Save this picture! © Bas Princen. Courtesy Fondazione Prada Text description provided by the architects. The 60-meters high Torre is realized in exposed white concrete. The new building further develops the repertoire of differentRead More →

HIIHUB / HII Architects

On: March 19, 2018

Tagged: apartment, architect, architecture, art, asia, asian, attraction, beautiful, Blue, building, china, chinese, city, cloud, concept, construction, culture, Design, east, garden, grass, historical, illustration, jurong, lake, landmark, landscape, modern, pagoda, park, people, place, pond, project, red, sightseeing, sky, structure, sunset, taipei, taiwan, tourism, tourist, traditional, travel, twin, water

© MD Pursuit Architects: HII Architects Location: No. 420, Section 2, Shulin St, South District, Tainan City, Taiwan Executive Designers: Jing-Yuan Hu, Kao-Chun Huang, Bin-Chuan Lai, Chia-Hern Wei Lighting Designer: Bo-Kuan Wu Visual Design: block design Block.tw Area: 364.0 m2 Project Year: 2016 Photographs: MD Pursuit © MD Pursuit TextRead More →

Sydney to Chateau Vaux le Vicomte in under a minute

On: November 27, 2017

Tagged: ancient, architecture, building, castle, chateau, culture, destinations, europe, famous, fontainebleau, france, French, garden, landmark, mansion, outdoors, palace, paris, residence, royal, tourism, travel

This morning I took time out of my busy schedule to have a wander around the sumptuous Vaux-le-Vicomte one of the many Chateaus around Paris. This trip was sponsored by the Google Art project, and after setting up my iMac deskspace, I was there within under a minute. My WifeRead More →