Tag Archives: architecture

Torre Marina in Vado Ligure, Italy. Designed by SP10.

via architectureland

Cilla Ramnek, Umeå University (2002)

By Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, based in Stockholm. Hot grids!

Animated Tower by NOTsoNOISY Guillame Reymond, 2012.

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Verner Panton
Astoria Hotel
1960

betonbabe:

JOSEF ALBERS 

BRICK WALL DETAIL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1949-50

This pattern repeats Muhammed over and over, and was made in 1275 for the Cifte minaret in in Sivas, Turkey. More here.

How to read the square kufic from the mausoleum at Shah-i-Zinda, made in 1361. QR-codes can go to bed now.

More pics and info at kufic.info.

 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

قل هو الله أحد
اللَه الصَمد
لمْ يلد ولم يولد
و لم يكن له كفوا أحد

Textile Art by Sven Markelius (1889–1972) from the 50s.

DDR ex-Solidarity Housing Association, Schillingstrasse 30 (Berlin).
Josef Kaiser/Johannes Gitschel (1966/67). Via