Bold primary colours punctuate this stark concrete extension to Braamcamp Freire secondary school outside Lisbon, by Portugese architect CVDB Arquitectos.
Architecture
MoMA presents its first major exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer. Conceived by guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibition reveals the ways in which Le Corbusier observed and imagined landscapes throughout his career, using all the artistic techniques at his disposal, from his early watercolors of Italy, Greece, and Turkey, to his sketches of India, and from the photographs of his formative journeys to the models of his large-scale projects.
Le Courbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes runs at MoMA, June 9th – September 23, 2013.
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The Sleeping Around pop-up hotel offers a readymade answer, a compact yet luxurious hotel room, equipped with all the mod cons: a box-spring bed, rain shower, iPod docking station and air conditioning – all contained in a 20ft recycled sea container. This unique concept offers the ideal mix of adventure and comfort at some of the most impressive locations in the city.
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The National Bank of Denmark in Copenhagen, designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1965.
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Former Reichsbahnbunker (1942) Friedrichstrasse, Berlin. Now the home of the Boros Collection (Sammlung Boros), after conversion by architects Realarchitektur (2007).
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The Isokon building in Hampstead, designed in the 1930’s by Wells Coates for Jack and Molly Pritchard and named after their ground breaking furniture business. Famous residents included Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Moholy-Nagy. Restored in 2003 it is now Grade 1 listed.
Go here for an insider’s peek into the restored Isokon building.
Via Michael Harrison.
