Le Corbusier – Maison La Roche (1925)

Le Corbusier – Maison La Roche (1925)

Maison La Roche, is a house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1923–1925. It was designed for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde art. Villa La Roche now houses the Fondation Le … Continue reading

Carlos Páez Vilaró – Walk with Giants (Johhnie Walker)

Carlos Páez Vilaró (1 November 1923 – 24 February 2014) was a Uruguayan abstract artist, painter, potter, sculptor, muralist, writer, composer and constructor.

Life and work @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Páez_Vilaró

Walter Gropius, Emery Roth & Sons, Pietro Belluschi – MetLife Building (1963)

Walter Gropius, Emery Roth & Sons, Pietro Belluschi – MetLife Building (1963)

The MetLife Building is a skyscraper located at 200 Park Avenue at East 45th Street above Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1958–63 as the Pan Am Building, then headquarters of Pan American World Airways, … Continue reading

Joseph Maria Olbrich – Vienna Secession Building (1897)

Joseph Maria Olbrich – Vienna Secession Building (1897)

message written at entrance = “Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit.” = “To every age its art. To art its freedom.” The Vienna Secession was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from … Continue reading

Bruno Taut – Glass Pavilion (Glashaus – 1914)

Bruno Taut – Glass Pavilion (Glashaus – 1914)

The Glass Pavilion, built in 1914 and designed by Bruno Taut, was a prismatic glass dome structure at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition.The structure was a brightly colored landmark of the exhibition, and was constructed using concrete and glass. The … Continue reading

Vladimir Tatlin – Monument to the Third International (1920)

Vladimir Tatlin – Monument to the Third International (1920)

It was planned to be erected in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, as the headquarters and monument of the Comintern (the third international). The main framework would contain four large suspended geometric structures. These structures … Continue reading

Charles R. Mackintosh – The Willow Tearoom (1903)

Charles R. Mackintosh – The Willow Tearoom (1903)

The Willow Tearooms are tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by internationally renowned architectCharles Rennie Mackintosh, which opened for business in October 1903. They quickly gained enormous popularity, and are the most famous of the many Glasgow tearooms … Continue reading

Antoni Gaudí – Güell Park (1914)

Antoni Gaudí – Güell Park (1914)

Park Güell is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to … Continue reading