a monolith of copper in the middle of green

07/25/2015 by alaundre

The de Young  |  Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA From wikipedia: The current building was completed by architects Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Fong + Chan and opened on October 15, 2005. Structural, civil and geotechnical engineering was provided by Rutherford & Chekene; Arup provided mechanical and electrical engineering. Herzog & de Meuron won the competition in January 1999 beating out other short-listed architects Tadao Ando and Antoine Predock. The terrain and seismic activity in San Francisco posed […]

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a space of warmth amongst your concrete walls

11/17/2014 by alaundre

  Salk Institute      |      Louis Kahn .

Categories: art | design, create, random / life, seen • Tags: architecture, buildings, cellphone photography, institutions, modern architecture, modernism, photography, shapes and forms, spaces, structures, sunsets, vsco cam

city of staples

05/28/2010 by alaundre

Ephemicropolis by Peter Root

Categories: seen • Tags: architecture, art, art installation, found objects

new archidecs site

05/11/2010 by alaundre

– Finished work on my friend’s website. Click on the first image to view the site: you can view the original rough idea HERE.

Categories: art | design, create, worklog • Tags: architecture, design, site design, web design