tim abrahams

architecture, progress, liberty

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You can just build houses if you want.

me on Oosterwold in @Countrylifemag
https://t.co/CTVcgnN69p

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A euphemism for Our Difficult Times.

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That's a fascinating perspective. Ultimately, at the end of the day, it's important to recognise that the landscape of written communication is rapidly evolving. By embracing authenticity, leveraging synergies, and fostering meaningful engagement, we can unlock new opportunities for value creation. 🚀

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This believe it or not is a community centre in Minatosakai, Tottori in Japan completed in 1997. Shin Takamatsu was one of the first (post)moderns to embrace architecture as scenography, manifesting latency and playing with the machinistic culture of Japan at its most affluent.

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(People are forever saying that a thinker they like deserves to be rediscovered because he addresses contemporary problems but Bergson is the very one.)

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Walter Lippmann said of Henri Bergson that he “is not so much a prophet as a herald in whom the unrest of modern times has found a voice.” I genuinely came across his ideas because having looked at the art and architecture around him, someone like him must have existed.

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This is a brilliant essay on him by the great John Banville explaining his absolutely stellar status in pre WWI Europe https://t.co/BRJrZIzdFO

[Lukas Novotny @LukasNovo89]

Aesthetics of the HSBC skyscraper under construction in Hong Kong, mid-1980s.

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Ralph McQuarrie riffed on samurai to create the costume ideas for Darth Vader but his concept art for Close Encounters for Steven Spielberg in 1977, plays on childhood memory of refineries in his hometown of Billings, Montana, as Ridley Scott would use Redcar for Blade Runner.

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Ralph McQuarrie riffed on samurai to create the costume ideas for Darth Vader but his concept art for Close Encounters for Steven Spielberg in 1977, plays on childhood memory of refineries in his hometown of Billings, Montana, as Ridley Scott would use Redcar for Blade Runner.

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@williamcooknews @Telegraph @TelegraphTravel Lovely stuff. William.

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France's 1960s decentralisation was not just away from Paris but urban cores generally. The IBM Research Center in La Gaude by Marcel Breuer, completed in 1962, was designed to bring scientists to a remote corner of the Côte d'Azur. A slab of now isolated Mediterranean Brutalism.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

That goes back to a post I made a while ago: when elevated highways are high enough the space below becomes usable again.

You don’t hear almost any noise and the light makes it through so you can start making it into something!

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@ChrisMartzWX Didn’t the Viet Cong call you yanks as well?

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@MadamMarenT So will i be when i steal it

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This short piece by @MadamMarenT on how we have tried to "bureaucratise the imagination" is worth your time.

[spiked @spikedonline]

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ shows how poisonous identity politics has been for the film industry. The left demands ‘representation’, the right demands ‘historical accuracy’. Good art doesn’t need to do either, says Maren Thom
https://t.co/3yEKGzpjt1

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Some key work on LV too.

[Las Vegas Review-Journal @reviewjournal]

Designed by the “Frank Lloyd Wright of adobe,” the sprawling Las Vegas property includes three homes, with a combined 11,200 square feet, sitting on around 10 acres, according to the listing.
READ & SEE MORE: https://t.co/JpTZ9NR2nK

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Bill Tull, adobe modernist raised in the Midwest, working out of Scottsdale, Arizona (1924-2000)

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