Tag Archives: architecture

Cilla Ramnek, Umeå University (2002)

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

Animated Tower by NOTsoNOISY Guillame Reymond, 2012.

electripipedream:

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

Wanangkura Stadium in western Australia, designed by ARM architecture. They call it pixely, we call it textmodey.

More here.