A survey of monumental design projects; past, present, and future.Tumblr (3.0; @boldacity)http://boldacity.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1uhph2Izw1qdfk9oo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1uhph2Izw1qdfk9oo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://archiscene.tumblr.com/post/20342031688/kaap-skil-maritime-and-beachcombers-museum-by" target="_blank">archiscene</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h2 class="PostHeaderIcon-wrapper"><span class="PostHeader"><a href="http://www.archiscene.net/museum/kaap-skil-maritime-beachcombers-museum-mecanoo-architecten/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Kaap Skil, Maritime and Beachcombers Museum by Mecanoo Architecten" target="_blank">Kaap Skil, Maritime and Beachcombers Museum by Mecanoo Architecten</a></span></h2> </blockquote>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/20464621219http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/20464621219Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:08:08 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wn83MVee1qdfk9oo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wn83MVee1qdfk9oo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://archiscene.tumblr.com/post/20406191034/changzhou-culture-center-by-gmp-architecten" target="_blank">archiscene</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h2 class="PostHeaderIcon-wrapper"><span class="PostHeader"><a href="http://www.archiscene.net/cultural/changzhou-culture-center-gmp-architecten/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Changzhou Culture Center by gmp Architecten" target="_blank">Changzhou Culture Center by gmp Architecten</a></span></h2> </blockquote>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/20464614149http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/20464614149Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:07:53 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvudkt57z1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Stills (retail) Doepel Strijkers, 2011 <br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvudkt57z1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Stills, Amsterdam, 2011 <br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvudkt57z1r0r1dpo3_500.jpg"/><br/> Hope, Clarissa Sligh (2007)<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/17043029828http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/17043029828Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:05:43 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvo29Ta3Q1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Light Thread by Eastern Design Office<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvo29Ta3Q1r0r1dpo2_400.jpg"/><br/> Auto Lamp, Kim Adams (Nuit Blanche 2010)<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/17035727533http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/17035727533Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:49:21 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyipsnoB151r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Pont de Millau, Norman Foster<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyipsnoB151r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> V_2, Viktor Timofeev<br/><br/> <p>Although Foster’s Millau Viaduct may have more levity than Timofeev’s piece (I know… two Timofeev posts in a row, but find his work amazing!), I can’t help but notice parallels between the form and contrast in the two works.</p>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16640728751http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16640728751Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:57:58 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyipilHAcG1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Modular Pavilion by Prechteck<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyipilHAcG1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> LOGICWILBRKYOURHART, Viktor Timofeev<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16640431820http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16640431820Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:51:57 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyipfzIS0W1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Wicker Membranes, Andrea von Chrismar<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyipfzIS0W1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Wicker Membranes, 2010<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyipfzIS0W1r0r1dpo3_500.jpg"/><br/> Sustainable Wood Sculpture, Ori Morimoto<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16640357980http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16640357980Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:50:23 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybagzZopp1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> VM Housing, BIG+JDS=PLOT, Copenhagen<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybagzZopp1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> VM Housing 2005<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybagzZopp1r0r1dpo3_400.jpg"/><br/> Avant Garde Fashion<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16411525714http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16411525714Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:43:47 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcvlfrHIc1qamfeso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcvlfrHIc1qamfeso2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcvlfrHIc1qamfeso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcvlfrHIc1qamfeso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcvlfrHIc1qamfeso5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcvlfrHIc1qamfeso6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcvlfrHIc1qamfeso7_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcvlfrHIc1qamfeso8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://artboxconcepts.tumblr.com/post/15378231849/artboxmagazine-detroits-abandoned-houses" target="_blank">Reblogged from: artboxconcepts</a></p> <blockquote> <p><span> </span></p> <h2 class="uiHeaderTitle">ARTBOX<em>Magazine</em>: Detroit’s abandoned houses.</h2> <p>_________________________________________________________________</p> <p><strong><span class="body">Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.</span> </strong></p> <div>-Julie Morgan</div> </blockquote>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16408387599http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16408387599Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:04:22 -0500“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”<br/><br/> - <em>Victor Hugo</em>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16061633137http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16061633137Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:27:07 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzzpnUSqE1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Hurteau- Miller Cottage, Kariouk Assoc.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzzpnUSqE1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16061404498http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16061404498Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:17:47 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzz2eXhIP1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Resort Hotel, Holzer Kobler Arch.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzz2eXhIP1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> The Enigma of Desire, Dali, 1929<br/><br/> <p>Holzer Kobler Architekturen’s Resort Hotel in Adermatt of the Swiss Alps is like a more structured and mirrored image of the surrealistic “The Enigma of Desire- My mother, my mother, my mother” by Salvador Dali.</p>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16061073401http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16061073401Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:03:50 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzydtk2Yf1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> GC Orostho Museum Research, Kengo Kuma<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzydtk2Yf1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Vertical Dam, Barry Scharf<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16060726680http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/16060726680Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:49:05 -0500“If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.”<br/><br/> - <em>Walter Gropius</em>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15923226677http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15923226677Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:39:21 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxte020BCs1r0r1dpo1_400.jpg"/><br/> la Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Gaudi<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxte020BCs1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Carlsbad Caves, Ansel Adams<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15856125213http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15856125213Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:43:14 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtdle7z4t1r0r1dpo1_r1_250.jpg"/><br/> Ascent at Roebling's Bridge, Liebeskind<br/><br/> <img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtdle7z4t1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Two Dancers at Rest, Edgar Degas<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15855678880http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15855678880Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:34:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtd0mOYe61r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Hilversum, Netherlands<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtd0mOYe61r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Institute for Sound and Vision<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtd0mOYe61r0r1dpo3_500.jpg"/><br/> Neutelings Reidijk <br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtd0mOYe61r0r1dpo4_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Claude Monet, Venice Twilight<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15855048911http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15855048911Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:21:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtc1tXY3P1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> Atomium, André Waterkeyn, Brussels(1958)<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxtc1tXY3P1r0r1dpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Galatea of the Spheres, Dali (1952)<br/><br/> <p>Modernism!</p>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15853971339http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15853971339Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:01:00 -0500“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”<br/><br/> - <em>Frank Lloyd Wright</em>http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15768874326http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15768874326Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:01:56 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxqb77WfPS1r0r1dpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> BUMPS, Beijing, SAKO Architects <br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxqb77WfPS1r0r1dpo2_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> Lygia Pape, Book of Light, Night and Day<br/><br/> http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15768692620http://boldacity.tumblr.com/post/15768692620Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:49:00 -0500