diller & scofidio’s the blur building.
the pavilion is made of filtered lake water shot as a fine mist through 31,500 fog nozzles, creating an artificial cloud that measures 300 feet wide by 200 feet deep by 65 feet high.
walking down a 400-foot-long ramp, visitors arrive on a large open-air platform at the center of the fog mass where the only sound to be heard is the white noise of pulsing water nozzles.
Mid-Century Modern Furniture Poster
An illustrated collection of icon mid-century modern furniture, including Eames, Bertoia, Le Corbusier, van der Rohe, Noguchi & many more.
(via James Provost)
Bauhaus – A Conceptual Model Exhibition Ninety years ago, Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar. It existed for only 14 years, but it became the most important school of modernity. With Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gerhard Marcks, Adolf Meyer, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Hinnerk Scheper, Oskar Schlemmer, Joost Schmidt, Lothar Schreyer and Gunta Stölzl, a faculty with an international reputation worked under the direction of Walter Gropius (1919-1928), Hannes Meyer (1928-1930) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1930-1933) at the Bauhaus.
The Palast der Republik opened to the public in April 1976. It served as the seat of the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, but was also a palace for the people: it housed two large auditoriums, art galleries, a theatre, an espresso bar, restaurants and a bowling alley. Here is the full series of Klapsch’s photographs, many of which we feature in the current issue of icon (074), taken in an abandoned and Marie Celeste-like Palast in 1993. Alongside Klapsch’s photographs in the magazine, you can read you can read Jana Sholze’s reminisces about the Palast from her childhood in East Berlin, and her view of the controversies surrounding its demolition and replacement. Klapsch’s photos are currently part of an exhibition in Kulturhaus Mestlin, Mestlin, Germany.
Photo: www.thorstenklapsch.de
Maunsell towers are situated at the very end of the Thames’ estuary and it used to protect its access during WWII. For more information go to this website
