We've seen Robert Götzfried's Munich Olympic Stadium photos, and clearly he has a knack for bringing out the form and patterns of place we all just seem to walk swimmingly through. Well, he here has a stunning collection of photos of indoor swimming pools.
Based in Barcelona, Clément Celma is a photographer passionate about the power of panoramas to unlock the hidden right in front of you. Here, a series of interiors of la Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, by architect Antonio Gaudí.
These wooden bridges in the Fuijan and Zhejiang provinces, on the south east coast of China, show a degree of craftsmanship astounding enough for them to still be standing and supporting daily activity and use. And they are gorgeous as well.
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I've often wondered what happens after the Olympics. I would love to find a comprehensive archive of Olympic venues...
Spanish Doors
Of all the architectural details, it is the doors and windows we interact with the most. It isn't surprising to me how beautiful they can be. Here, Andre Vicente Goncalves, a Portuguese photographer, makes the point with gorgeous sets of doors and windows from around Europe.
Portuguese Doors
Italian City of Trento
Windows in the Alps
Windows of the Alps
Sicilian Windows
Windows of Porto
Portuguese Windows
Portuguese Windows
Venetian Windows
English Doors
Romanian Doors
These gorgeous and stylish metro maps for world cities look to not only display location and distance, but time and direction as well. The project from architect Jug Cerovic looks at the layouts of the world's major cities' metro system, but they are beautiful enough to hang on your wall. I want to collect all of the cities I've visited. What a gallery that would make.
With a drone photographer Andy Yeung created this project Urban Jungle, which reveals the startling density of life in Hong Kong.
Reflecting on the memories of the golden age of Hollywood, it gives the feeling that there is no such place like a movie theater to celebrate the birth of film from an artist. "The greatest emotion I have ever had in my life took place in the dark" and not in front of a smartphone or television. I have decided to spotlight the grandiose movie palaces to the independent movie houses. This is Cinema.
One very notable aspect of the houses I've been to in Singapore is that rather than hide from the equatorial heat behind unopenable glass walls and super-powered AC units, the people of Singapore open their doors, walls and windows to it. The indoors and outdoors blend entirely together. And this example from the architects Aamer shows just how swank this style can be.
In his project "100 Year Old Houses" Hungarian photographer Zsolt Hlinka http://www.zsolthlinka.com/ approaches his architectural subjects with a point of view, one evoking wonder and reverence as well as curiosity.
Photographer Klaus Frahm has given us a startling view of some of Europe's beautiful theatres in his series The Fourth Wall.
Tour Mirabeau, Paris
Parisian photographer Alexandre Jacques in his series Architectural Pattern has an eye for rhythm and repetition.
Tour Ariane, Paris
Arche de la Défense, Paris
Tour Novotel, Paris
7 World Trade Center, New York
FBI Building in NYC
Tour Espace 2000, Paris
Santos Place, Brisbane
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Mohammad Domiri, a remarkably talented Iranian photographer, has amassed this startlingly gorgeous portfolio of the interiors of Middle Eastern mosques.
Here is a new series from our favorite, Robert Götzfried, a series of amazing architectural finds deep in the German forest: hunting blinds.
His entire site is full of amazing photo sets: www.robert-goetzfried.com
The high vaults of Cambridge’s 16th-century chapel were painted with the digitally projected work of French artistMiguel Chevalier in real-time, during a recent fundraiser.
A film by Claude Mossessian © Claude Mossessian Miguel CHEVALIER Dear World… Yours, Cambridge Immersive projection King's College Chapel, Cambridge, 17th October 2015 Curators: Helen Marriage and Bill Gee / Artichoke Trust Campaign: Johnson Banks Commissioned by the University of Cambridge Development and Alumni Relations for the launch of the campaign for the University and Colleges of Cambridge, 16-18 October 2015 Technical productions : Voxels Productions Software : Cyrille Henry and Antoine Villeret At the occasion of a fundraising campaign organized by the University of Cambridge in King's College Chapel on 17th October 2015, Artichoke invited the artist Miguel Chevalier to create a series of immersive projections to accompany the speeches of renowned professors and alumni including Sir Ian McKellen, Professor Chistopher Dobson, Professor Carol Brayne and Sir David Attenborough, and concluded by an unannounced appearance by the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking, known for his work on black holes. This was the first time that the University of Cambridge had invited an artist to make a work of art in the Chapel. For the event, Miguel Chevalier imagines a number of different graphic universes, which are generated in real time and use their own “digital” language to illustrate and interpret a wide variety of subjects including Academic Excellence, Health, Africa, Biology, Neurosciences, Physics, Biotechnologies… We discover colourful living universe constantly renewed. Everything floats, branches out, appears and disappears, always turning into something else. Colored lines of light sketch out mental landscapes before our very eyes. To illustrate Stephen Hawking's research about black holes, Miguel Chevalier imagines an immersive environment made up of thousands of constellations that plunge the guests into the mystery of the universe. In the same spirit, each of the projections entices the audience into a magical and poetic atmosphere where science meets spirituality. The site-specific installation highlights the architecture of the 16th century Chapel through light and highlights the high technicality of the cathedral's fan vaults, one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture. The soft light and the wealth of colours from the digital installation is in resonance also with the light from the stained glass windows. The installation gives the building life before our eyes, creating an unprecedented visual experience. This digital installation is a celebration of the open-mindedness and the highness of research of Cambridge University.
Photographer Foster Huntington built this treehouse in Washington State near Oregon and called it 'The Cinder Cone'.
"[I was] inspired by the people and places I’d seen during my time on the road".
His kickstarter campaign is for the gorgeous book of photos documenting the whole process and end result.
In the Spring of 2014 a small group of close friends broke ground on a building project in Skamania County, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge. Their primary endeavor was a multi-platform tree house, but also included a skate bowl and a wood fired soaking tub as well. The crew came from all over the country and from a variety of backgrounds. Some were professional carpenters, others learned on the job, gaining experience along the way. The Cinder Cone is Foster Huntington’s short film that documents this year-long process of building his dream home with this community of tight knit friends. Check out The Cinder Cone Build Book on Kickstarter too! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fosterhuntington/the-cinder-cone-build-book A Farm League Original Directed by Foster Huntington Edited by Jess Gibson "Better" by Bosque Brown "Thunder and Lightning" by Joseph Hein "Ring Shot Step" by Ash Black Bufflo "The Way it is" by Denver "Francis" by Houndstooth "Every Little Bit Hurts" by Barton Carroll
From the project page:
The Growth That Is Our Own Cradle enquires into the form and make up of a selection of British bird’s nests. Nine nests from different species of birds are carefully studied and documented in order to heighten our appreciation of each construction.
They are so delicate in design. A nest might have a thousand pieces to its make up. Each piece taken on a single trip. Not only that but the birds have to find each piece, and find a place for it in their nest. It’s like a builder building a house. Their construction: unbelievable that they never fall out and are so safe. Built for strength but also for comfort. Amazing really, that birds can make these homes like they do.
(Fred Mills, nest finder)
Munich-based photographer Nich Frank (http://www.iso72.de ) sees geometry all around him and captures images that let us see them too.
“[it's] about self-discovery, finding something new or to interpret it differently, change the own point of view, leaving the rhythm and the usual paths. It’s about time, places, moments, but also technology.”
This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada's Far North choose the site, cut and place snow blocks and create an entrance--a shelter completed in one-and-a-half hours. The commentary explains that the interior warmth and the wind outside cement the snow blocks firmly together.
From 1949, this film by the National Film Board of Canada shows how, using only snow and a knife, an igloo is built by two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North.
From picking the right site, carving and stacking the snow blocks, the hour and a half of work creates enough warmth inside to protect people from the harshest conditions.
On a foggy day, a drone was able to catch this stunning footage of the Dom Tower of Utrecht, for the Dutch filmmakers Jelte Keur and Reinout van Schie.
