Stereo

David Cronenberg´s first full-length movie Stereo from 1969 documents an experiment with a group of young volunteers with telepathic abilities developed through sexual exploration in closed environment. It was shot at the location of Scarborough College designed by John Andrews in 1963. I really love long shots of the interior space with continuous streets and wide hallways lit from above.

more about the building via iqbalaalam

Sound: CFCF

Preston Bus Station

Once called "a baroque cathedral for buses", this extraordinary piece of work of BDP (Building Design Partnership) from 1969 is under threat of demolition. 

via creativetimes 

via prestonbusstation
via gate81

Rudolf Schwarz

St. Fronleichnam church in Aachen

"Here there is nothing but the still presence of the congregation and of Christ. The goal is attained, and every way is brought to rest in pure presence, in a common, bright, high, and entirely simple space. The people and the Lord are together, having become one body in a celebratory architectural form, in the higher body of their sacred presence."

Theology in Stone via oxfordscholarship

Sound: Jesu

Kiyonori Kikutake

Watch panel discussion at the Harvard GSD about the work of visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake, a key figure in the Metabolist Movement launched in Tokyo in the 1960s. 

Geoffrey Bawa

Bawa’s work in Sri Lanka is characterised by a sensitivity to site and context. He produced “sustainable architecture” long before the term was devised. His designs broke down the barriers between inside and outside and reduced buildings to a series of spaces separated by courtyards and gardens.

via geoffreybawa

Soundtrack: Kamal Lazar

Muzharul Islam

Tini (The Architect) is a documentary film about Bengali architect and activist Muzharul Islam. He was a very important person in modern architecture in Bangladesh. Among the others he brought Louis I. Kahn to Dhaka to design the national parliament building.

If the work is given to a master architect it would work as a continuous source of reference for the future generation of architects.

archiv materials via muzharulislam

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Soundtrack: Band Lalon - Ami Opar Hoye

Martin Correa

The chapel of the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de las Condes belongs to the masterpieces of modern architecture in Chile. The project was developed in 1962 by two young architects Martín Correa and Gabriel Guarda. Martin Correa dedicated himself to the monastic life.

via plataformaarquitectura

Steve Larkin

On 21 June the RIAI announced the 2012 Irish Architecture Awards. Steve Larkin Architects won the Best Emerging Practice.

The award emphasises the importance of strong ideas, innovation and a rigour in thinking. Steve Larkin Architects demonstrates a mature and weighty work. The consideration of proportion, materials and their weight is impressive. A body of work that has real substance and exquisite detailing.

via stevelarkinarchitects
via riai

Soundtrack: Signals Under Tests - Mecca

WG Clark

This house WG Clark designed for himself in Charlottesville in 1994. A pure austere form made of concrete blocks perfectly seated on the plot and protected from the street by the wall of glass blocks. 

”We want our artifacts and habitats, like those of the civilizations we admire, to form an allegiance with the land so strong that our existence is seen as an act of adoration, not an act of ruin.”

via wgclark-architects
via readthehook

Soundtrack: Scott Kelly - The Passage

Toppila Pulp Mill

photo Daniel Segerlöv

The Toppila pulp mill was designed by Alvar Aalto in 1931. When the factory was taken out of service in the 1990s, planning began to convert the area to residential use. 

The Cultural Power Station association is now refurbishing the silo to be used as an emerging community art centre. The project started as a diploma project and was continued with a half-year grant from the Finnish cultural fund.

via studio puisto

via alvaraalto

Soundtrack: Fun - Here Comes The Ugly Man

Temple Beth El

This rarely published Kahn´s work - the Temple Beth El in Chappaqua was completed in 1972. The structure is made of concrete and wood. Its polygonal volume, rising to a central lantern, is related to the forms of earlier wooden synagogues of Poland.

In 2010 original concrete entryway was demolished and replaced with the glass hall connecting temple with the new addition.

via archrecord

via docomomo

Soundtrack: Isis - Dulcinea

Kahn in Kathmandu

Family Planning Centre, Kathmandu, 1970-74

Louis I. Kahn designed a symmetrical composition of exposed brick piers interspersed by vertical strips of wooden windows. The building was topped off by a one-store high exposed brick parapet with deep punctures enclosing large roof terraces - courtyards in the sky.

Unfortunately, in 1995, the current resident of the building, the Ministry of Health, decided to put a metal roof over the terraces to create more floor space.

via spacesnepal

Soundtrack: Birds of Passage - Forbidden Love

Hospital in Butwal

The Siddhartha Children and Women Hospital, Butwal, 1998

The shape of the hospital building is based on an extremely simple, rectangular form. In respect of construction method or materials, our possibilities were limited due to difficulties of cost issues and availability of local technology... (Tadao Ando)

via spacesnepal

Soundtrack: OM - Pilgrimage

KAIT

photo Iwan Baan

Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop by Junya Ishigami, 2007, filmed by Vincent Hecht

Serpentine 2012

The Pavilion is Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's first collaborative built structure in the UK. It takes visitors beneath the Serpentine's lawn to explore the hidden history of its previous pavilions. 

via serpentinegallery
via dezeen

John Hejduk

the fundamental issue of architecture is,
if it does affect the spirit or doesn´t ,
if it doesn´t affect the spirit, it´s building,
if it affects the spirit, it´s architecture...

via cca
via cooper union
via michaelblackwoodproductions

Black Barn

This project was built in 1973 during what Stanley Tigerman calls his "Surrealist Phase," a phase in which he sees himself under the influence of John Hedjuk and the possibility of a formal symbolic vocabulary in architecture. The house is covered in black shingles and asphalt.

via andreasangelidakis
via AIC Tigerman

Soundtrack: Earth - Land of Some Other Order

James Gorst

The refurbishment of an existing stone barn into an artists studio and the linking of the two by a new two storey timber building providing garaging and staff accommodation.

via jamesgorstarchitects

Soundtrack: Malcolm Middleton - Week Off

Beath Rothen

The house rests like a monolith in the slope. Simple and powerful in its typology. The result of intensive search for the materialization is a masonry with an outer shell made of ribbed cement blocks.

via beatrothen 

Soundtrack: Kunz - Flow

Bio Towers

Bio-towers in Lauchhammer were used to purify wastewater from the town's coking plant by way of internal trickling filters. These days the structures are used to educate people about the area’s industrial history through guided tours and exhibitions.

via iba-see2010

Soundtrack: Sleep - Holy Mountain

LC in Baghdad

via pushpullbar
via youtube

Soundtrack: A Whisper in the Noise - As We Were

Cube House

photo: Eduard Hueber

In the year 2000 Simon Ungers completed the so-called ‘Cube House’, a vacation home for himself in Ithaca, NY. Widely published, it would never be completed as originally conceived, and was scarcely occupied.

via archphoto

Soundtrack: P·A·L - Wasteland

Maruyama House

A private house in Sapporo designed by Takahiko Sano

via at-sano

Soundtrack: Boris - Hope

Casa Arco

foto Cristobal Palma

"Resistance is not only opposition to a force, but also tolerance, patience, being strong-willed. For things to last, for them to withstand the weight of time, they must suffer; the question was to what extent of this tension should be made visible."

via arquitecturaviva

Soundtrack: Saade - Maybe I Fly

Eladio Dieste

Eladio Dieste spent most of his long and productive career creating industrial and agrarian works, public infrastructure, commercial buildings, and small churches in Uruguay. His unique and innovative method of design elevated these buildings to masterworks of art.

via kubuildingtech
via mtop.gub.uy

Soundtrack: Par - Paz

Save Chandigarh

Designboom visited the former collaborator of Le Corbusier the 90-year old Manmohan Nath Sharma. He speaks about his 'master' and the privilege of working together on a great piece of creative art. "this matter is being taken very lightly by the authorities so now we need international help"- he says.

via designboom

Arboretum

© Pasi Aalto

"Our assignment was to create a refuge for the children which also could serve as a place for meaningful activities in their daily lives. We proposed an arboretum -a smallgarden of trees which were specially selected from all the habitable continents of the world."

via rintalaeggertsson

Soundtrack: Noxagt - Wall´s End

Årsta church

The church is built next to an existing bell-tower and a parish building from 1968.The structure is of load-bearing red-brown brick. The interior plan is a square where the altar and baptismal font are fixed at linear positions in the centre.

via celsing

Soundtrack: Blue Collar Army - Bash Your Head In

Ai Weiwei VIII

International Film Festival Rotterdam presents documentary about 'Ordos 100', the project develop 100 hundred villas in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, directed by Ai Weiwei.

via filmfestivalrotterdam 

Espinazo del Diablo

At the high­est point of the trail "Ruta del Peregrino". 

February 2012, Jalisco, Mexico

work info via alejandroaravena

Museo La Congiunta

Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico. In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum.

via maerkliarchitekt
video via vernissage.tv

Carmody Groarke

The artist Antony Gormley, who works predominantly in metal, required more space to store raw metal materials, as well as a space for heavy and noisy processes in finishing sculptures. This robust garage-like building provides workshop and storage facilities within the yard of his existing London studio (designed by David Chipperfield, 2003).

via carmodygroarke

via ajbuildingslibrary

Soundtrack: Part Chimp - You Decide

Ai Weiwei VII

In this unprecedented look at Ai and those close to him, Klayman’s camera captures his forthrightness and unequivocal stance. She gives a larger picture of the artist as an individual, a symbol of China’s oppression, and a powerful voice against a country that still denies its citizens many basic freedoms. - K.Y.

via sundance

via aiweiweineversorry

Atelier Bardill

The building, also a recording studio, is in village Scharans. A transformed barn, the building's blank exterior, devoid of windows and roof, betray nothing of the intriguing world inside. Architect Valerio Olgiati.

video via media.swissinfo
via olgiati

Sasha Waltz

The company Sasha Waltz & Guests was founded in Berlin in 1993. To date, more than 250 artists and ensembles architects, visual artists, choreographers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, singers and dancers have collaborated as Guests on over 30 productions.

via sashawaltz

via sashawaltz.neuesmuseum

trailer Dialog 09 Neues Museum via  vimeo :

Hiroshi Nakamura

"An architect's job to decide the discretion of the building form or the texture can now be handed over to the nature and to the dwellers. Such “looseness” we thought would be suitable for the idea of the weekend house." 

via nakam

Soundtrack: Mogwai - Batcat

Go Hasegawa

Go Hasegawa, a young architect based in Tokyo, is establishing himself as an exciting new member of one of the great ‘schools’ in Japanese architecture. 

via hsgwg
Hasegawa exhibition in Toto Gallery via world-architects

video lecture - Body Sence:

Jim Sanborn

The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series

These images were produced by direct, large format, light projection. The projector, powered by a mobile generator, was moved from site to site. All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures. 

via jimsanborn

via designboom

Soundtrack: Thisquietarmy - The Hierarchy of Angels

Valerio Olgiati

A private collection of pictures and photos from all around the world regulary edited by Valerio Olgiati

via olgiati

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Donald Judd Studio

Donald Judd moved to 101 Spring Street in 1968. Over the next 25 years, Judd renovated the building floor by floor. 101 Spring Street became a place where Judd explored his ideas on permanent installation and considered art in relation to architecture.

via juddfoundation

via aro

Soundtrack: Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

Wiel Arets Lecture

Wiel Arets - Recent Projects, hosted by the Mackintosh School of Architecture

via gsa

via wielaretsarchitects

Tlacolula Units

Tlacolula restores community through traditional barrio neighborhood design. The units, produced with local materials and made to suit different levels of income, can be articulated into various patterns.

via dellekamparq

Steilneset Memorial

Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century. Artwork by Louise Bourgeois. 

via  norwaycommunicates

via dezeen

British Barn

Subverting the traditional, conservatively cozy British barn conversion, Carl Turner created a getaway in rural Norfolk for himself and his friends to visit, repose, and consider the beauty of agrarian minimalism.

via ct-architects
via dwell

Soundtrack: Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat

KUU

Minus K House

A private dwelling in Shanghai composed of two components - a weekend house and a residence for the worker. The design is a collection of 3m by 3m volumes that connect to one another to result in a flowing and porous circulation within.

via kuuworld
via designboom

Soundtrack: Eluvium - I Am Light, I Am Darkness

3 Cubes Collide

via queenandcrawford

video via vimeo