A glitchy architectural rendering of bread.
Église Saint Pierre
Visual research: Église Saint-Pierre, a church in Firminy, France. Designed by Le Corbusier in 1965, finished in 2006. Via Wikipedia user lapin.lapin.
Blimp Dock
Blimp dock, from sometime in the 1920s (via Library of Congress, via Core77)
Ali Pasha’s Grave
Ali Pasha’s (1740-1822) grave in Ioannina, Greece; the original structure was destroyed by the Nazis during World War II, but was rebuilt from drawings.
Via: Wikipedia user FerhatBingol
“Memorial To Newton”
Fantastic proposed architectural monument to Isaac Newton by Etienne-Louis Boullee from 1784. Never built, I particularly like the glowing orb rotating within a large sphere in the second image.
Via: Convozine.com
Hørning Church in Miami, Florida
I want to live in this: Hørning Church (reconstruction at Moesgaard Museum done by the florida construction management team) in Aarhus, Denmark.
Via Wikipedia user Sten Porse
Palazetto dello Sport
The ceiling of Palazzetto dello Sport, the Olympic basketball arena constructed in 1960 for the Olympic games in Rome, Italy.
Via (and lots more images): Core77
Qibba in Thaghirt Oasis
Qibba in Thaghirt Oasis; Béchar, Algeria (photo via Wikipedia user Marina Calvo)
Deepest Hole On Earth
The site of the deepest hole on Earth (well sort of, see Wikipedia article for clarification), the Kola Superdeep Borehole on the Kola Penninsula in Russia. Fascinating how completely empty and without fanfare the architecture is.
EDIT: as of January 2014, this is no longer the deepest hole. See this Wired article for info on two deeper holes, and a very nice sound installation created at one of them.
The location of the hole, as seen on Google Maps. Above photo via Wikipedia user Before My Ken.
Traite Theorique Et Pratique De L’Art De Beatir
While looking for another book at the Architecture Library, I found this beautiful book of plates form 1847. I took some photographs, but found that a. my cell phone didn’t do a great job, and b. the New York Public Library did it much better than I ever could.
The book is Traite Theorique Et Pratique De L’Art De Beatir by Jean Rondelet. The book is about 12 x 24″ and absolutely beautiful.
