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Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign creates "boring alter-egos" of UK landmarks

Deezen

Created to demonstrate how UK landmarks would look if designed in modernist styles, the agency used artificial intelligence to reimagine the landmarks. Using artificial intelligence, fed with 75 years of soulless development data, UnLandmarks reimagines Britain's most beloved buildings through the eyes of its most boring architectural trends."

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King Charles III's impact on British architecture

Deezen

Under his previous title of Prince of Wales, Britain's new monarch exerted significant influence on the built environment through campaigning, torpedoing modernist projects and even building his own traditional towns. Here are six ways King Charles III has impacted British architecture. Charles taught everyone the word "carbuncle".

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We Read Midcentury Playboy for the Articles—on Modern Design

Dwell

It isn’t a particular Playmate, rather a multipage spread titled "Designs For Living," featuring rising modernist designers like Charles Eames, George Nelson, and Harry Bertoia—and, of course, their beloved creations: Eames’s Lounge Chair, Nelson’s Coconut Chair, and Bertoia’s Diamond Chair among them. million copies.)

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Building Ideas: Haus Wittgenstein is a Philosophical Exploration of Modernist Architecture’s Essence

Architizer

Summarizing the contents of this book is beyond the scope of this article — and my competence — so I will content myself with reproducing his final proposition: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” ” What could be more modernist than that? Wittgenstein saw that this problem was bigger than architecture.

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Minimalist Marfa compound lists for $3.5m

The Spaces

It sits in the remote desert arts town of Marfa, known for its modernist architecture and site-specific artworks by minimalist artist Donald Judd. In 2019, they added a second, smaller structure by Tuscon-based studio Dust, according to a WSJ article. Why the desert is a foil for contemporary architecture.

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Orr’s gateway to heaven

Architecture Here and There

I closely peruse all of the lush and colorful adverts for architectural services and crafted ornament. And the feature articles are a marvel to behold. A good example is the article by Nancy Ruhling about a garden gate designed by New Haven architect Robert Orr.

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Professor Curl’s revenge

Architecture Here and There

Stevens Curl archive) Since the publication of his masterly evisceration of modernist architecture in 2018, Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism , James Stevens Curl has been attacked relentlessly by the British architectural establishment. Sibyl Moholy-Nagy as actress in Weimar.

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