Architecture
Building design, aesthetics, and engineering.
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Architecture
The architectural composition of a traditional Japanese Noh theatre.
The stage is typically constructed from hinoki (Japanese cypress). Originally, noh was played in open fields. When a theatre is recreated inside a building, it’s designed complete with details such as a roof, bridge with a handrail and a pine tree... See more
instagram.comJohn Pawson - Wooden Chapel
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A small path leads to the chapel’s entrance, located at the transitional point between woodland and open ground. The architecture is framed as the simplest of gestures. From certain perspectives its mass appears as a pile of logs stacked up to dry; from others the considered placement of the elements on a concrete plinth creates a more formal impression of a piece of sculpture emerging from the forest. The purposefully narrow entry maintains the sense of physical proximity encountered as one moves through the dense trees, adding visceral and visual theatre to the exhilarating experience of passing into an attenuated space over seven metres high and nearly nine metres long.
Alda Ly Architecture
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architect for lots of D2C brands like Alto, Tia, Parsley, The Wing, and more..
The Phoenix, Lewes
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All these losses, for me, carry equal weight, precisely because, for Black, research and writing about building held as much transformational potential as design and construction. Indeed, it might be true that, for Black, such a duality did not exist. Perhaps, for him, writing and spatial thinking were one and the same. This is what most excites me... See more
Peter L’Official • Black Builders
The flat layout of the building made for constant chance encounters in the hallways. Vertical buildings create rigid boundaries, since floors and stairs are harder barriers, so the horizontal footprint caused people to run into dozens of others throughout a typical day. From the air, it looked like an oblique letter E (with a little extra E), and... See more
Coleman McCormick • MIT's Building 20: a Masterpiece of Utility
Charlap Hyman & Herrero | Home
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Plantea Estudio
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Studio behind some of my favorite spaces in Madrid.