Basilio, Andalusia, Spain
alcazar de los reyes cristianos (by ViaXeiRoS - javier balseiro)
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india - ladakh by Retlaw Snellac on Flickr.
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São Paulo Cultural Center by Lina Bo Bardi
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Hong Kong in 1923
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always love this project, even though it’s clearly in flood plain and probably illegal.
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Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Historic 1928 PhotoThis photo is just amazing. This complex was built with nothing around it. Compare to this modern-day Google Maps aerial view.
Caption from Art Deco digital collection at McGill:
A photograph of the Université de Montréal campus in an aerial view, ca. 1928.
Architect Ernest Cormier (1885-1980) is well-known for his central complex of buildings at the Université de Montréal, considered to be of Art Deco design. It is a composition of simple forms of planes and surfaces in successive relief, emphasizing vertical lines. The light buff vitrified brick has trimmings of Missisquoi marble.
Cormier’s former house on Pine Avenue in Montreal is one of the finest examples of Art Deco homes in the world.
Student Papers Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections
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huh, i didnt even realize one could ski in australia.
Huski Hotel, an Australian ski lodge by Elenberg Fraser
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Dream House (by the snail and the cyclops)
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Infographic: ‘Samso: The Energy Self-Sufficient Island’
It took ten years and $80 million, but the Danish island of Samsoe now produces enough energy to satisfy all its needs and still export 40 percent of its energy to the mainland. Going 100 percent renewable wasn’t easy, but the results have paid off handsomely. Farmers on the island who are powering their facilities with wind turbines are seeing a 6 to 7 year payback on those investments. And of course it’s remarkable that wind, unlike other energy technologies, is entirely compatible with agriculture.
(Source: SmartPlanet)
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Saarburg, Germany (by Wolfgang Staudt)
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Alberto Ferandez Gonzalez’s design for coastal fog-harvesting towers in Huasco, Chile, which extract water for agriculture from the “Camanchaca” coastal fog.
via architecture lab
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Green Machine: ‘Vertical street’ collects rainwater
The world’s first “vertical street” will soon be built in Melbourne, Australia. Every sixth floor of the 35-storey building will have gardens capable of growing trees up to 10 metres tall and the entire building will be boasting the very latest in green technology.
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The newly unveiled Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. The memorial is the first on the National Mall to honor an African-American and the first to honor a person who did not serve as president.
Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
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@nate_berg Nate Berg RT @gelatobaby: For all of you who like to talk New York vs. LA, this really puts things in perspective flic.kr/p/4yFzpq
