February 13, 2024 • #
Chillon Castle , island fortress on Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
The building originally dates to the 11th century, but there’s evidence the Romans had forts on the small island a millennium earlier.
It’s functioned as fort, prison, and summer home to counts and dukes. Added to my one-day-Swiss-vacation list.
January 24, 2024 • #
archiveofaffinities:
Rhone and Iredale Architects, Bogue Babicki and Associates (Structural Engineers), Westcoast Building, Vancouver, B.C.
Rhone and Iredale Architects, Bogue Babicki and Associates (Structural Engineers), Westcoast Building, Vancouver, B.C.
Brutalism / modernism carries great aesthetics. Interestingness for the magazine, terrible for the user.
September 12, 2022 • #
This was a fantastic thread from The Cultural Tutor — so simple, but had me on an epic Wikipedia / Google Maps rabbit hole.
Some of my favorite examples:
Kind of sad to see so many overbearing modernist structures in here, but some of them are nothing if not impressive, at least.
His newsletter, Areopagus, is full of great tidbits on art, history, classics, architecture, rhetoric. Well worth a subscribe.
October 12, 2019 • #
An amazing feat:
On a misty Saturday morning in Vienna, on a course specially chosen for speed, in an athletic spectacle of historic proportions, Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya ran 26.2 miles in a once-inconceivable time of 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds.
An architect’s manifesto on how teams can rethink the design of baseball stadiums:
Fans want to feel that the club has bought into them, and a bolder model of fan engagement could give them a real stake in the club’s success. One of the most promising recent trends in North American sports is the way soccer clubs are emulating their European counterparts by developing dedicated supporters’ groups. These independent organizations drive enthusiasm and energy in the ballpark, and make sure seats stay filled.
Instead of just acknowledging and tolerating the supporter group model, we’re going to encourage and codify it in the park’s architecture by giving over control of entire sections of the ballpark to fans. Rather than design the seating sections and concourse as a finished product, we’ll offer it up as a framework for fan-driven organizations to introduce their own visions.
Analysis of how media over-represents rare causes, and represents almost not at all the most common causes of death.
