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Fog
Vintage San Francisco fog is pretty hard to beat for moody and mysterious photos. The massive Embarcadero Center complex (left image), located right against the bay in downtown San Francisco, is always even more of a presence on foggy nights.
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De Young Museum
The De Young Museum, a wonderful example of contemporary modern architecture, located in the heart of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
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Lello Bookstore
Lello Bookstore, located near downtown Porto, features a fantastic staircase as an architectural centerpiece.
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Disney Concert Hall
One of the aspects of architecture that was pounded into me year after year during my formative years was the perpetually misunderstood notion of scale. Scale has many aspects to it, one of the most important being the relationship and proportion of adjacent volumes to each other. Over the years my sense of scale and ...
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California Oil Rig
Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading an excellent tome chock full or wonderful article-sized meanderings into topics that intersect architecture, photography, urban exploration and some pretty innovative thinking into the design of the urban environment. The book is fruit of the work of Geoff Manaugh, who has been exploring these fascinating topics at ...
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Frei Otto’s Olympic Stadium
Sometime last decade I went to Munich to visit the Olympic Stadium, design by Frei Otto. The magnificence of the roof structure is complemented by a sea of chairs, in which the shade of green is varied ever so slightly from one to the other. The effect is both mesmerizing and soothing, and must have ...
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Powerful
Geothermal power near the Salton Sea in Southern California.
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Stunning CGI Video
I came across this stunning computer generated video with a strong architectural and photography bend to it. Seen at PetaPixel.
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Gare de Oriente
Photographs of a Santiago Calatrava designed train station in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Mental Physics
A night at the Harmony Motel in Joshua Tree, made famous by Irish rock band U2, which stayed here during the production of the Joshua Tree album, coupled with a visit to the Mentalphysics Institute, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, made for an interesting day.
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Palm Springs
A visit to Palm Springs to see the Richard Neutra designed Kaufmann House led to some disappointment, due to lack of access. Fortunately there was plenty else to see.
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Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky
Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky, better known as Louis Kahn, designed the renowned Salk Institute near San Diego, CA. This building has long been on my radar ever since I moved to San Francisco almost 6 years ago. My first attempt, 5 years ago, to visit this famed example of 20th Century design ended in disappointment, as it ...
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Cooper Union by Morphosis
Cooper Union Building by Morphosis