Shftoptplus/UTS: 2014

Aarhus University, Carl Theodore Sørensen

Some of you want to have a look at work by the Landscape Architect Carl Theodore Sørensen. Here is my photo of the amphitheatre at Aarhus University by Sørensen. Architects for the University master plan were Kay Fisker, C.F. Møller and Poul Stegmann with Sørensen. Photograph mine.

Madrid, area around Mercado de San Miguel

Hi all,

I've just found some of my photos of the area around the Mercado de San Miguel in Madrid that show alternatives to kerbs and bitumen. Thought it might be useful to many of you, but Jeremy in particular.

Try Google Street View too.

Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Try a Google Image search for "Piranesi Carceri"

Image below from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Piranesi

Factum-Arte also made a wonderful animation of the Carceri d'invenzione.

Our Lady of Lourdes, Zagreb, Jože Plečnik

Scan from Peter Krečič, Plečnik, The Complete Works, London, 1993

Skatepark, Waterloo Station

Far, far too late for any of you to be contemplating a new programme, but have a look at this skatepark below Waterloo Park, London

Nice geometry too that could inspire outcomes at the edge of Belmore Park.

See you all soon.

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk

Sohlbergplassen Viewpoint, Atnsjø, Stor-Elvdal, Norway by Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk 2005.

Photos below from here

Rafael Gustavino

Rafael Gustavino developed the Gustavino Tile system, based on the Catalan vault. Allowed construction of some of the great buildings by McKim, Mead & White and others.
Photo below is Pittsburgh Union Station by Daniel Burnham. Photo from here.

Alte Pinakothek by Leon von Klenze, reconstruction by Hans Döllgast

Alte Pinakothek in Munich by Leo von Klenze, reconstruction (following WWII bombing) by Hans Döllgast.

Essay on Hans Döllgast in Oase #49-50

Photos from here, here & here

Tent Room, Charlottenhof Palace, Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Tent Room, Schloss Charlottenhof, Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Photo from here

Grundtvigs Kirke

A few of my photos of the Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, completed by his son, Kaare Klint.

Mien Ruys

Tuinen Mien Ruys (Gardens of Mien Ruys), Dedemsvaart, Mien Ruys

Photo from here

Thomas Ruff's photograph of the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe

Thomas Ruff's extraordinary photograph of the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe.

Photo from here.

Torre Velasca, BBPR

Torre Velasca by BBPR.

Photo via Archdaily.

Casa Malaparte

Casa Malaparte by Adalberto Libera / Curzio Malaparte / Adolfo Amitrano, Capri

Large parts of Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris shot here.

Photo from here.

Hexenhaus, Bad Karlshafen by Alison & Peter Smithson

The Hexenhaus in Bad Karlshafen designed for Axel Bruchhäuser of Tecta by Alison & Peter Smithson.

Photos by Anna & Eugeni Bach here.

Laurentian Library, Michelangelo Buonarroti

Staircase of the Laurentian Library, Florence by Michelangelo, 1524-71.

Photograph here

Grossmünster windows by Sigmar Polke

Not related (I don't think) to your studio, but i've just learned of the windows designed by Sigmar Polke installed at the Grossmünster church in Zurich. How beautiful! (Polke amazes me).

Article from the New Yorker here.

Video here.

Photos below from here and here.