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Airport Typeface.

No public building works without environmental graphic - however - there might be no other place where people are not so dependable of signature like on airports. Either you look for departure gates,...

4 days ago

Office Sculptures.

Turning household items into mathematical sculptures - see more of them at the homepage of Zachary Abel, a Ph.D. student in the MIT Mathematics department. content by anArchitecture [[ This...

6 days ago 1 person likes this

Broken Houses.

The series broken houses by Ofra Lapid is based on photographs of destroyed and neglected houses. However, these buildings were recreated as small, precise scale models and again photographed in the....

06 feb 12 2 people like this

DIY - Bike Lanes.

image (c) Martin Reis Every weekday, on my way to the office, I have to pass a heavy traffic road that lacks in a pedestrian crossing. Wouldnt it be great to get some color and paint a... [...

29 jan 12

365 days of a Bike

Get a bike. Lock it to a post. Take a pic every day for a year. And this is what happens. Nice experiment by Red Peak Branding. [via swissmiss] content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary ...

19 jan 12 1 person likes this

Morphing Logo - WORKac

Dynamic / morphing logo by Project Projects for the New York city based architectural practice WORKac. The moving shapes playfully reflect the multidisciplinary strategies of the design firm. A grid....

15 jan 12

Space Sprawl

In the 1970 NASA envisioned possibilities to colonize space: building giant spaceships, orbiting around the sun. The image shows a diorama scene from the Haus der Natur, in Salzburg. For Space... [[ ...

10 jan 12 2 people like this

No bulk mail, please!

"No direct mail, please!" - drawn by hand. A Swiss way to avoid bulk mail - seen at the amazing Siedlung Halle, in Bern, by Atelier 5. content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary o...

05 jan 12

Hans Hollein is an Artist

"Hereby I confirm that Hans Hollein is an artist" - Joseph Beuys. (postcard seen at the Hans Hollein exhibition, at the Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneumsviertel). Hollein is the only Austrian... [...

05 jan 12

Frohe Weihnachten! Happy Xmas!

(do it yourself) lightpainting. Done at Hamerlingpark, in Vienna. Happy Holidays! content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.an-architecture.com for content. ]]

24 dec 11

Street Art - SMASH137

graffiti tag by smash137 There is no message, the Swiss graffiti artist smash137 writes smash137 on walls - like an object. Should everything have a meaning? Meanwhile smash137 got... ...

11 dec 11

Inspiration.

[via yesmaschine] content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.an-architecture.com for content. ]]

08 dec 11

Bye bye 70s - Erler Dingbats

For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full encoding range for dingbats is now covered by a complete, contemporary quality font - Johannes Erler and Henning Skibbe.... [[ T...

03 dec 11

The Toaster Project.

"Left to his own devices he couldnt build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it." (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams) Arrogantly Thomas Thwaites deci...

29 nov 11

Communicating Urinals.

Linked urinals - spotted this summer at the Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset show "The One & The Many" at the Submarine Wharf, Port of Rotterdam. content by anArchitecture [[ This is ...

28 nov 11

Walking Rollercoaster.

I love roller-coasters,&nbs p;and now you can walk on them. The landmark "Tiger and Turtle" is an art project in the South of Duisburg in the Ruhr area, part of the transformation pr...

25 nov 11

Street Art - Mentalgassi.

Sweet urban disrupt. Street artists (like Mentalgassi) make our urban world less ordinary. Thank you! content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.an-architecture.com for co...

23 nov 11

Architecture In-Print.

I love print, and the ambition to resist the ongoing flux of online publishing. Pause and visit archiziness. "ARCHIZINES is a showcase of new architecture fanzines, journals and magazines......

21 nov 11 1 person likes this

World of Chicken.

Atlas - map with chicken, Alois Mosbacher, 1997 Chicken world map, seen at the Essl Museum, near Vienna. "For each villager I started to draw a chicken - following numerous chicken paints, also a...

20 nov 11

CCTV - by Zou Jian

Drawing of the CCTV by Zou Jian during construction. The image was shown in the 2010 exhibition "La Ville Dessinée", at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, in Paris. The ex...

16 nov 11 1 person likes this

Dear Photograph.

“Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present”, that is the tagline of the tumblr photoblog dearphotograph: A unique way to recreate photo memories. Nostalgic is trendy! content by... [[ ...

14 nov 11 1 person likes this

Christmas City.

Only five weeks till Christmas! content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.an-architecture.com for content. ]]

13 nov 11

11.11.11

Coulld not resist doing a 11.11.11 blog post. As an excuse - the marvelous Canal+ ad. It is simply about passion. content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.an-archit...

11 nov 11

Urban Intimacy.

During long winter nights, already beginning in late afternoon, the look of the streets changes: illuminated windows reveal the buildings interior - let you invade - accidentally - someones private.....

07 nov 11 1 person likes this

Murmuration (Happy Friday).

murmuration /merr’meuh ray”sheuhn/, n. 1. an act or instance of murmuring. 2. a flock of starlings. Thats impressive (architecture). [via swissmiss] content by anArchitecture [[ This is a c...

04 nov 11 1 person likes this

Architecture is...

from Project Japan, Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist content by anArchitecture [[ This is a content summary only. Visit www.an-architecture.com for content. ]]

03 nov 11 1 person likes this

Stop-Motion Models.

Love this stop-motion animation by the Italian studio BAUKUH. It presents sketches for a National History Museum - a study assignment by the Berlage Institute to develop new architectural.....

01 nov 11

Kissing Minimalism.

"Its art, when one says its art", says Carl. "In case of doubts - me! I can say that. And I have to find at least someone who believes me. Then its art." (excerpt from "Mein Klein...

27 oct 11 1 person likes this

Twentysix Viennese Gasoline Stations.

Sebastian Hackenschmidt and Stefan Olah were definitely inspired by Ed Ruscha and his 1963 released book Twentysix Gasoline Stations when he published Sechsundzwanzig Wiener Tankstellen. It is an... ...

21 oct 11

(an)architecture 3.0

Was the pause too long? After more than three month of posting abstinence it is tricky to continue. For me, it is still unclear what it means to be an architect. Are we engineers? Artist? Inventors?....

18 oct 11

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