J. Powers Bowman. Balfron Tower. 2011

pen and ink. 8.5”x11”.

J. Powers Bowman. Bookcase. 2013

collage, pen and ink. 3”x2”.

J. Powers Bowman. Chimneys. 2013.

Collage, pen-and-ink. 9”x9”.

simplypi:

OFFICE BUILDING IN SHIBAURA by Kazuyo Sejima

SO CLEAN!!!!

ArchDaily Classics:

Paris Opera by Charles Garnier

ArchDaily Classics:

Petronas Towers by Cesar Pelli

Hangzhou Normal University Cangqian Performing Arts Center, Art Museum and Arts Quadrangle / Steven Holl Architects

Shaft House by Atelier rzlbd

At first glance I thought it was Kazuyo Sejima’s Gifu Kitagata Apartment Building, but it wasn’t.

Anyhoo…That’s what Pang would call a facade

(via flight001)

annatar:

What the flying fuck, Gehry? The Disney Concert Hall is one thing but what the hell is this shit? You’re making it hard for me to include you in my Desert-Island Top Five…

Note: It’s the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health by Frank Gehry in Las Vegas

makesomeonehappy:

“After more than thirty years of work, a French architect, Paul Bigot, has completed a stupendous task, the building of an accurate relief map of Rome as it was about the fourth century, A.D., when the city was at the peak of its power. At that time Rome was the center of as much of the world as was then known. It had gathered the riches of conquered countries and was crowded with temples, palaces, shrines and stadiums. Few of these have escaped destruction but most of the structures have left a trace, either in book or in stone, and M. Bigot carefully studied every source of Roman history before attempting to construct this ancient city as the Caesars knew it. The plaster model of the Eternal City is twenty feet wide and forty feet long and thousands of little blocks represent the monuments and buildings of the past. The scale is one to 400 and three-fourths of the city is represented. Every detail is carefully reproduced so that looking at the model gives the same impression, it is claimed, as though the observer had been able to fly over the Rome of ancient days and view the city from an airplane.”

Model of Rome Took Thirty Years to Build. Popular Mechanics, June 1934. (Via Modern Mechanix)

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Photograph: ‘Paul Bigot devant son oeuvre en 1911’ in Manuel Royo, Rome et l’architecte. Conception et esthétique du plan-relief de Paul Bigot, Caen, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2005, fig. 95, p. 165

(Via Université de Caen Basse-Normandie)

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Ark Hotel Construction

Oh the magic of prefab.

cabbagerose:

studio house/not only architects

via: notonlyarchitects

annatar-random:

Luxury Bomb Shelter

adultpropaganda:

just a quick view of one of Houston’s unique structurs

(unedited taken by me)