arkitekcher:

Zink-Mine-Museum (2003-in corso/ongoing) | Peter Zumthor

Location: Almannajuvet, Sauda

specialcar:

The Flour Mill, built in 1895

aubade:

thingssheloves:

Living Succulent Art by Ellen Soohoo on Flickr.

hi kynodontas and huntswoman

cabinporn:

Scott’s Cabin, Beaver Brook, NY.

Contributed by Noah Kalina.

themanliness:

Iporanga House | Source | MVMT | Facebook

cabbagerose:

pied à terre, the netherlands/unknown architects

via: minimalissimo

Design by http://www.upticstudios.com/

bluepueblo:

Rock Tunnel, Sri Lanka

photo via keith

archatlas:

via ryanpanos:

1 Bligh Street | Architectus

redhousecanada:

aadnesen:

Albert Frey House II, Palm Springs, USA.

The awesome write-up and more photos here

nexttoparchitects:

by messymatty

paavo:

Flakturm Archives or the Panopticon in Reverse (via Dpr-barcelona)

This project undertakes to design archives within one of the Flakturm, former Second World War anti-aircraft towers in the center of Vienna. The idea of constructing an archive within a bunker is not a neutral one. The defensiveness of this building allows, both symbolically and literally, to host and protect goods against the alteration of the externality —whether it is time or a more direct antagonism. Many civilizations of the past have been annihilated, not only physically, but absolutely as any form of their production has been also destroyed with them. The recent history would have still seen several tragic examples of ethnical cleansing directly linked to processes of cultural destructions.

enochliew:

ChonGae Canal Restoration by Mikyoung Kim Design

The stepped stone elements allow for a reading of the various levels of water from hour to hour while encouraging direct public engagement with the river.

onsomething:

onsomething

Souto de Moura | House in Alcanena,  1987-92 

Via 1

Floating Community Design by NLÉ

archimaps:

Burnham’s plan for a proposed park at Western Boulevard and Garfield Boulevard in 1909, Chicago

femme-de-lettres:

Large (Wikimedia)

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller painted The Roman Ruins in Schönbrunn in 1832.

I’ve always found Waldmüller’s body of work surprisingly incongruous. His genre scenes—paintings of every-day life—consist almost entirely of idealized, moralizing images of smiling rural families and occasional heavy-handed religious themes. They read almost as parodies of the pastoral ideal.

Yet his still-lives (and, as seen here, his landscapes) manage to be realistic—but also full of life; the statues in the middle seem mere moments from turning around, highlighted as they are by the little patch of sun through the arch.