CASA FISHER
Louis Kahn
Hatboro.Pensilvania.Estados Unidos.1967
The house is situated on a hillside which slopes gently down from a street bean principal.La house is the simplest expression of the idea of two cubes,one for the living room and one for the bedroom,these cubes are played as random angle, how to join table data taken on,connecting diagonal stays. A Louis Kahn wanted each space or room had its own form, did not like the buildings in which a unified way inside divides to create usable spaces.
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RUFINO TAMAYO MUSEUM
Teodoro González de León y Abraham Zabludowsky
Bosque de Chapultepec. Mexico D.F:, Mexico. 1981
Zabludowsky González de León and two Mexican architects represent a position Jan monumental contemporary architecture of that country. His works attempt to establish a connection to the Hispanic cultural history through the use of space resources and highly expressive materials.
The Rufino Tamayo Museum is a building that clearly represents this way of Mexican architecture sculptural, in which the roundness of its volumes and the richness of the interior spaces hold out the superb collection of paintings by the artist, constituting a cultural and fundamental meeting for Aztec city.
The prospect of the great meadow in autumn park
BROOKLYN PROSPECT PARK
Frederick Law Olmsted y Calvert Vaux
Brooklyn. NY, U.S.. 1873
This park is the only large area urban forest that exists in this district of the City of New York. Built in a totally preconceived, emphatically expressed naturalistic philosophy of the authors.
The set complies with a provision into three landscape areas, central routes and services, the stream that flows into the artificial lake and the long perspective of the prairie that makes up one of the most sublime of this part of the city.
Photography: Timi Pig, Flickr
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The main atrium roof building access. Photos: Francisco Cellini
BANK OF LONDON AND SOUTH AMERICA
Clorindo Testa
Reconquest, 101. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1966
This administrative building in the heart of Buenos Aires is part in the mainstream Brutalist clearly that define a part of the architecture of the second half of the twentieth century.
Its originality and formal richness is founded on creating piranesianos interior spaces that provide an alternative to the narrow streets that surround. The design of floating bridges trays and serve as inspiration for other subsequent bank designs.
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View of the courtyard of banking. Image extracted from blog Worlds-Trotter
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A suggestive foreshortening of space inside the gallery staircase
MOSTYN ORIEL ART GALLERY
Mark Ellis/ Dominic Willians. Ellis Williams Architects
Llandudno, North Wales. Britain. 2011
An elegant intervention after a traditional brick façade which has generated new space for an art gallery.
The quality of execution of concrete beside the attractive arrangement of shapes and spaces suggested, induces us to think that this is a brilliant architectural trabajo.
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View of the Main Reading Room
STOCKHOLM PUBLIC LIBRARY
Eric Gunnar Asplund
Odensgatan, 57. Stockholm. 1928
Eric Gunnar Asplund is one of the most representative architects of the twentieth century Scandinavian culture. Would be influenced by the sensitivity of Modern Classicism called Nordic, although in its last stage would some works related to Rationalist style.
This library is one of his masterpieces would conceive as a monumental temple of culture. The symmetrical design and its distinctive drum that would become one of the icons of reference of the city. The most relevant, however, is its wonderful main reading room space that concentrates on a central focal point where users are located.
Photography: Yokio Yoshimura, EGA Foundation
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Exterior view of one of the wards that make up the building
Galeria HEIDI WEBER
Le Corbusier
Hoeschgasse, 8. Zurich, Switzerland. 1965
This is one of the works of the architect mature stage in which initiate the use of metal and sheet structures warped cover. Raised initially as a space for the exhibition of art for the gallery owner Heidi Weber, currently the Le Corbusier Center is dedicated to promoting the work of architect.
In a Swiss geography and, characterized by the presence of green and greyish skies, Le Corbusier propose a building that I extend allow a visual contact with the outside and establish a strong presence through the extensive use of vivid colors in coatings.
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The famous museum window is one of its most significant hallmarks
MUSEO WHITNEY
Marcel Breuer
Madison Avenue
NY. U.S.. 1966
“It is easier to say first what should not be similar. There should be similar to a commercial building or office, or make it look like a place of light entertainment. Its form and its material should have identity and weight in the neighborhood of 50 floors of skyscrapers, the bridges of a mile long, in the middle of the forest dynamics of our colorful city. It should be an independent unit , exposed to the history, while, should transform the vitality of the street in the sincerity and depth of the art ". Marcel Breuer
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HOUSE RICARDA the
Antoni Bonet i Castellana
El Prat. Barcelona. España.1963
The house "La Ricarda" is located at the sea shore next to El Prat airport(Barcelona) surrounded by dense pine forest.The housing is adapted to the demands of the landscape and sits on an artificial platform built on the dunes. The house is arranged from the aggregation of a modulo-structural and spatial- and cover under a system of vaults framed in an innovative language and preserving local traditions couple.
Photography:Twose
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 Partial view of BiosphereBIOSPHERE MONTREAL
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Jean Drapeau Park.Montreal. Canada ,1967
In 1967 USA participated in the Universal Exposition in Montreal, where his pavilion structure consisted of a steel cylindrical cells with a total dimension of more than seventy-five feet in diameter and sixty-three high,was designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller. La Biosphere use it for recreation and public attraction, harboring a unique oasis of plants and after exposure aves.Una, the pavilion was donated to the city .
Photography: Josue Souza
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