wells cathedral, wells, england, 12th-15th century.
cloister and garth.
I loved the idea of a gothic tree in the cloister garth with a trunk like a great clustered column. but which tree is this, and does it grow to this shape naturally? does anyone know?
EDIT: answers below.
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'house tower' model, tokyo 2006
from the recent exhibition at the louisiana museum, www.louisiana.dk
architects: atelier bow-wow, yoshiharu tsukamoto and momoyo kaijima, tokyo.
we need to compare the four boxes gallery to atelier bow-wow's Japanese work. this sectional model of the 'house tower' shows their predilection for open, split-level floors. you can find a related reaction to what we might call a european or western architecture of enclosed, discrete spaces in the very different buildings of kengo kuma. the 'house tower' has a footprint of just 18 square meters, one example of the extreme demands made on buildings in tokyo and documented so beautifully in the books and projects of atelier bow-wow.
an open staircase connecting so many floors had never been allowed in copenhagen, by the way.
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wells cathedral, west front, wells, england 12th-15th c.
the west front is overwhelmingly triumphal for the atheist visitor, but the interior it announces...the interior not only goes on forever - english cathedrals are famous for their length - but you want it to go on forever.
more coming :)
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hanssted skole / school, valby, copenhagen, denmark 1954-1959.
architect: hans christian hansen, 1901-1978, working for the copenhagen municipal architects department.
the hans chr. hansen set.
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the comments I have added to some of my photos can be read together as a kind of mangled, yet surprisingly brief essay on hansen. repetitious and opinionated, it reflects the writer above his subject, but until someone does some serious research on hansen, a complete lack of competition makes me immune to criticism. enjoy :)
01. introduction, amager 1966.
02. the engineer as ideal, hansen's pre-war architecture, sundholm 1939.
03. the church he didn't build. war and the return to tradition, 1942-1944.
04. following fisker. wartime housing, hulgårds plads 1943.
05. the architect finding himself in kindergarten, skydebanen 1948.
06. developing the restless section. hanssted school 1954.
07. early industrial. nyborggade transformer 1958.
08. the brutalist, bellahøj 1961.
09. perfect self-confidence, ringbo nursing home 1961.
10. perfect idiosyncrasy. ringbo bell tower 1961.
11. the masterpiece, bremerholm 1962.
12. on the fine art of knowing when to be a backdrop. svanemølle 1966.
13. industrialized construction, a first response. svanemølle 1966.
14. concrete charm, bellahøj gas regulator 1967.
15. late irreverence. gasværksvejen school 1969.
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in a few of my previous ramblings, I have mentioned Danish architect, engineer, designer, and painter p.v. jensen-klint.
www.flickr.com/photos/seier/504858229/
www.flickr.com/photos/seier/1544636977/
www.flickr.com/photos/seier/500552466/
it is time to show some of his works.
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