Sep 16
Ok, I really want to see this one once it’s finish.
And I wouldn’t like to be a Manhattan window-washer…
More info on this 56-story luxury skyscraper.
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Sep 09
Strike a Pose! documents a new extroverted architectural language. The iconographically charged scenes and futuristic spaces featured are playful and experimental and range from private residences to schools and operas, museums and interior design. Manifested in spectacular structures, eccentric forms and vivid colours, this expressive approach goes way beyond conventional stylistic and geographic boundaries.Strike a Pose!
Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Spaces
Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Spaces
Editors: R. Klanten, L. Feireiss
Language: English
Release: October 2008 Available Soon!
Price: € 59,90 / $ 89,00 / £ 45,00
Format: 24 x 30 cm
Features: 320 pages, full colour, hardcover
Jun 14
In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, architecture plays an important role. Having worked as a set designer in the early 1920s, Hitchcock remained intensely concerned with the art direction of his films. In addition, the ’master of suspense’ made some remarkable single-set films, such as Rope and Rear Window, that explicitly deal with the way the confines of the set relate to those of the architecture on screen. Spaces of confinement also turn up in the ’Gothic plot’ of films in which the house is presented as an uncanny labyrinth and a trap. Furthermore, it became a Hitchcock hallmark to use famous monuments as the location for a climactic scene. Last but not least, Hitchcock used architectural motifs such as stairs and windows, which are closely connected to Hitchcockian narrative structures (suspense) or typical Hitchcock themes (voyeurism). Apart from dealing with these issues extensively, Steven Jacobs discusses at length a series of domestic buildings with the help of a number of reconstructed floor plans especially made for this publication.
Steven Jacobs is an art historian who has published widely on the photographic and cinematic representations of architecture, cities, and landscapes. He currently lectures on film history at Sint Lukas College of Art Brussels and the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, and on urban studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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May 25
Sculp(IT) is a young, progressive and complementary team of architects who apply their passion for architecture to every task given. Sculp(IT) is based in Antwerp, Belgium and currently consists of Silvia Mertens, arch., and Pieter Peerlings, arch. They have recently completed a clever office, residence and studio for themselves in what they call “Antwerp’s narrowest house” located in Anwerp’s former red-light district. They took a 2.4-meter (7 feet 10 inches) wide space between two buildings, erected a steel skeleton in it and installed four wooden floors, one each for work, dining, relaxing and sleeping, plus a bath tub on the roof.”
