“There is always the sense there of a corner not turned, a passage left unexplored, a lost building, a hidden place where unspeakable practices take place. The city is so old, so twisted in upon itself, that it has not been tamed and aired and sanitized.”… Read More The Comfort of Strangers / Paul Shrader / 1990
“[George Nelson] chose what he considered to be a very uncontroversial form – a pyramid – as both roof and building for the new facility” … Read More Peoples Trust Bank / George Nelson Co. / 1971
“In these projects, special attention was paid to maximum hygiene in the storage and sale of products. Handling and local transport are kept to a minimum, as the produce goes directly from external unloading platforms through sanitary inspection points to the market halls. The sold goods are conveyed through conveyors running under the floor into packaging rooms and places of issue. From there, through hatches in the floor, it is loaded onto cars or carts.” … Read More Smolensky Market Hall / Ilya Golosov / 1926
Series of cyanotypes diagramming movement in the domestic and urban realms prepared in response to the confinement of pandemic lockdown in Mexico City in 2020. … Read More Constelaciones / Paola Dávila / 2020
“The corrugated asbestos-cement roof serves not only to protect the machines but is also intended to obviate the conspicuous cloud of dust which frequently tends to rise when refuse vehicles deposit their load.” … Read More Refuse Reduction Plant / Städtisches Hochbauamt Wiesbaden / 1967
“These paintings, all of them, are essentially me collaging together a bunch of sentimental things […] every object in this painting has a story, and through the process of making this was puzzling together the stories of my life […] it’s this play between content and color.” … Read More Take Care of Yourself / Sophie Treppendahl / 2023
“The Three distinct functional volumes of the building have been placed within an exposed structural cage of cast-in-place concrete. The four interior columns define a central circulation core, leaving the surrounding floor space entirely free of columns. […] To maintain this uninterrupted space and simplify problems of air supply and exhaust, all ductwork, piping, heating and ventilating equipment, and fume hoods have been concentrated in mechanical shafts distributed around the perimeter of the building.” … Read More Tufts Chemical Research Building / The Architects Collaborative / 1962-65
“Ultra-low-budget, Godardian ‘homo-movie'” … Read More Totally Fucked Up / Gregg Araki / 1994
“Adapt the Quonset to its site and the climatic needs. Don’t start out with a restricted point of view. Think of it in terms of fullest use. It can be adapted to nearly any site. The relation of form between the Quonset and a fallen tree is a great deal more natural than to the box-cube usually built”… Read More Felton Cabin / John Campbell & Worley K. Wong / 1946
“Finescale reticles are manufactured photographically using a precision microfilm camera. Every reticle is an original negative photograph from a master 20 times full size. The masters are prepared on a precision coordinatograph which maintains an accuracy of .001” in 10 inches”… Read More Finescale ® Magnifying Comparator Reticles
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