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Recent Posts
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the first cinema screening 24/09/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations 29/06/2020
- Adriano Olivetti 27/02/2020
- Why is Computer Design stuck in the 1950s? 04/04/2018
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the movie cameras 26/02/2018
- Apple Park 24/07/2017
- Archispeak #1 – TEA, Tenerife 11/01/2017
- Dismal Designs – Nikon D5 30/10/2016
- Delightful Designs – 1946 SIRIO Elettra II camera 10/10/2016
- Japanese Style 22/07/2016
- Whistler’s Haircut 27/04/2016
- Beyond The Dreaming Spires 11/04/2016
- Leica 1 Model C – The First System Camera 29/02/2016
- Blot on the Historic Townscape 21/02/2016
- Dismal Designs – The Hearing Aid 09/01/2016
- A Factory Filled with Light – Olivetti at Pozzuoli 13/11/2015
- Great Designers Remembered – Pier Giorgio Perotto and the first PC 28/10/2015
- Dismal Designs – New Google Logo 15/09/2015
- Miniature Masterpiece – Leica FIKUS Variable Lens Hood 03/09/2015
- Disappointing Designs – Apple Watch 18/08/2015
- Memorable Images – Henry Taunt 19/07/2015
- Duane Hanson at the Serpentine 16/07/2015
- Blots on the Cityscape – The Ruin of London? 15/07/2015
- Disappointing Designs – Alfa Romeo Giulia 07/07/2015
- Golden Silver – The Beauty of Nickel Plate 02/07/2015
- Delightful Designs – Arteluce Bean Bag Light 15/06/2015
- Housing Design Crisis 12/06/2015
- Blot on the Landscape – Close-board Fencing 10/06/2015
- Delightful Designs – Alessi Birdsong Tea Strainer 08/06/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica RASAL and ROSOL Frame Finders 31/05/2015
- Hiroshige at the Ashmolean 01/02/2015
- Blot on the Townscape #2 – The Blade, Reading 01/02/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica APDOO, WINKO, WINTU and AUFSU 01/02/2015
- Dismal Designs – Premier Inn 01/02/2015
- Blot on the Historic Landscape – The Port Meadow Scandal 09/01/2015
- Peter Overs – Emu Dreaming 08/01/2015
- Dismal Designs – new Mini 04/01/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica VISOR, VIDOM and VIOOH viewfinders 03/01/2015
- Alessi Makes Serious Coffee 29/12/2014
- Blot on the Townscape #1 – Oxford 29/12/2014
- Great Designers Remembered – George C Blickensderfer and the First Portable Typewriter 29/12/2014
- Constructivism in Tenerife! 19/12/2014
- Dismal Designs – Fiat Fiorino 19/12/2014
Category Archives: Architecture
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations
1929 poster for the film by the Stenberg brothers “We leave the film studio for life, for that whirlpool of colliding visible phenomena, where everything is real, where people, tramways, motorcycles, and trains meet and part, where each bus follows … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cinema, Constructivism, Design, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, silent film, Soviet film, Uncategorized
Tagged Arcadia Beach, Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, Bolshoi Theatre, Boulevard Stairs, Coal Mine, Debrie Parvo movie camera, Documentary film, Donbas, Donbass, Donetsk, Dziga Vertov, Eisenstein, Elizaveta Svilova, Experimental film, Film locations, Iron foundry, Kamianske, Kiev, Kinamo, Kulyanik, Kuznetsky Most, Kyiv, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Moscow, Odesa, Photography, Potemkin Stairs, Pushkins'ka Street, Soviet Silent Movies, Steelworks, Strastnaya Square, The Eleventh Year, Tverskaya, Volkhov Hydroelectric Plant
Adriano Olivetti
Adriano Olivetti in memoriam 11th April 1901 – 27th February 1960 A film about the greatest industrialist of them all: https://youtu.be/Ax_zKlnSxHE
Posted in Architecture, Art, Computers, Design, Housing, Housing Design, Personal Computers, product design, Typewriters, Uncategorized
Tagged Adriano Olivetti, Architecture, Design, Design Italiano, Industrial design, Italian design, Italy, Ivrea, Olivetti, Typewriters
Apple Park
Steven Levy of Wired magazine was invited in for a tour of the vast new Apple headquarters building in Cupertino, California, designed by Foster and Partners. Opened in April 2017 the building has cost a reported $5 billion, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Building, Computers, Construction, Design, Olivetti, Personal Computers, Uncategorized
Tagged Apple HQ, Apple Park, Foster and Partners, Foxconn, Jony Ives, Pegatron
Archispeak #1 – TEA, Tenerife
WHAT ARCHITECTS SAY VERSUS THE REALITY! Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2008 ARCHITECTS: Herzog & De Meuron, project directed by the Canarian architect Virgilio Gutiérrez ARCHITECTS: “…..A new public path diagonally cuts through the building complex connecting the … Continue reading
Beyond The Dreaming Spires
THE OTHER OXFORD, FAR FROM THE TOURIST TRAIL Mention Oxford to most people and an image of beautiful golden stone buildings with spires and domes comes to mind. The High Street or ‘The High’ is surely one of the most … Continue reading
Blot on the Historic Townscape
King’s Lane Development, Cambridge, UK (1967) – Architect: James Cubitt & Partners There are so many third-rate modern buildings around they just blend into the background, but sometimes you come across one that is so crass, ugly, and ridiculous that … Continue reading
A Factory Filled with Light – Olivetti at Pozzuoli
“…Facing the most remarkable bay in the world, the architect has designed this factory to respect its beautiful surroundings and to make this beauty a source of comfort in the working day. We wanted nature to be part of the life of the factory rather than being excluded by a … Continue reading
Blots on the Cityscape – The Ruin of London?
There has been an astonishing lack of serious debate about the future planning of London except in one or two of the architecture journals and the Guardian. Over 400 very tall buildings are planned for the city, particularly along the south … Continue reading
Housing Design Crisis
In an effort to improve on the woeful standard of housing design in the UK the last government launched the Building for Life 12 scheme in 2014. It is ‘designed to help local communities become more involved in design conversations and in shaping development … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Housing, Housing Design
Tagged Bracknell, Building for Life, Housing crisis, housing design, Jennett's Park
Blot on the Townscape #2 – The Blade, Reading
This is the tallest building in Reading (Berkshire, UK) and so the ridiculous silver cardboard pointy bit on the top can unfortunately be seen for miles around. Quote from the building’s website: “Sharp thinking……The curving form of the spire gives … Continue reading
Blot on the Historic Landscape – The Port Meadow Scandal
CASTLE MILL GRADUATE STUDENT ACCOMMODATION, OXFORD Port Meadow is an ancient area of water meadow by the Thames on the edge of Oxford. Around 300 acres (120 hectares) in area it is still used for grazing cattle and horses, as it … Continue reading
Blot on the Townscape #1 – Oxford
Looking at this horror in the centre of the city you might think it was an electricity sub-station with those gates, or even University squash courts. But no, it is a block of flats in an area of Victorian terraces … Continue reading
Constructivism in Tenerife!
I came across this interesting building in the architectural wasteland of South Tenerife. An old apartment block overlooking the beach in Los Cristianos, it has an early Soviet Union Constructivist flavour about it. Rather a clever concrete structure, there is … Continue reading