As both of my avid readers will know, I’m not one to harp on about bad architecture. We have to look at it enough in our daily grinds, so – my thinking goes – let’s not pollute the clean, pristine, unsullied wonder that is the internet with such unwholesome images as the pictures you are [...]
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Love old folk, hate bad architecture
Posted in architecture, brighton on December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Split Peds in Dubrovnik
Posted in Click-and-shoot, architecture on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a tendency toward the Baroque in Dubrovnik and they really know how to split their pediments.
They stick three of them together, round a corner:
Not enough for you? Want four in a row, preferably topping out some engaged ionic columns? Fine.
Fancy, eh? Well – not as fancy as this. This is proper Baroque – an [...]
Kaplicky
Posted in architecture, tagged Jan Kaplicky on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sad news on the architect front. Jan Kaplický died yesterday in Prague. Sadder still is that he was en route to celebrate the birth of his daughter.
Kaplický co-founded Future Systems and designed two of the most iconic buildings in this country in the last ten years – the media centre at Lord’s and the Selfridges [...]
