The old seen project

Collected as a series of albums, all these images and more can be found here. This page is kept for archival purposes.

David Chipperfield-Neues Museum

Chipperfield - Neues Museum

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David Chipperfield

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Borromini-Sant Ivo alla Sapienza

Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza

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Bramante: Santa Maria Della Pace

Santa Maria Della Pace Cloister, Bramante

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Rome-Pantheon

Pantheon - Rome

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ARU-Welcomm

Welcomm City

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Florian Beigel + ARU and Seung H Sang

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ARU-Paju Book City

Paju Book City

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Buildings By Florian Beigel + ARU

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Le Corbusier-Swiss Pavillion

Le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse

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Pavillion indeed

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Le Corbusier-Maison du Bresil

Le Corbusier, Maison du Brésil

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Playful brutalism

Perhaps not conveyed in these photographs. The building appear surprisingly playful and gentle.

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Jean Nouvel-Cartier

Jean Nouvel, Fondation Cartier

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Steel and glass done right

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Nicholas Hawksmoor-St Mary Woolnoth

St Mary Woolnoth by Nicholas Hawksmoor

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Gunnar Asplund: Gothenburg Courthouse

Gothenburg Courthouse by Gunnar Asplund

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A stunning interior

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Peter Celsing-Harlanda

Härlanda Church by Peter Celsing

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Modern Romanesque

Before seeing it in real life I thought it was a lifeless building. On the contrary it is probably Celsings best.

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Mezquita de Cordoba

Mezquita de Cordoba

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The Mosque Cathedral of Cordoba

A building of fantastic spatial and ornamental complexity.

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Inigo Jones-Queens House

Queens House by Inigo Jones

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That colonnade is pretty terrible. Not done by Inigo though.

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Campo Baeza-Caja de Granada

Caja de Granada: Campo Baeza

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The monumental minimalism has a questionable impact on the public space but creates beautiful interiors.

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Gunnar Asplund: Stockholm Library

Stockholm Library

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Mild Mannered Swede

Despite the bright orange this building is mild if not cool.

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Zurich Tramdepot

Zürich Tramdepot

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Interior city room: 1938 Herman Herter

The tramshed sits in the center of Zürich between housing and sunken train tracks. The ashfalt of the street enters the building with the tram tracks that once inside the building disperse across the vast floor. It is an interior room at the scale of the city with the materiality and directness of the city. The space is beautifully lit by monitor rooflights and flourescent tubes. Inspite of its scale and direct design the large building sits quite comfortably on the residential street.

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Franz Fueg-Marble Church

Marble church by Franz Fueg

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This Church performs a magic trick as you walk from the exterior to the interior. From the outside the material of the walls appear to be opaque white stone. Inside the stone reveals a golden brown translucency.

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Jean Nouvel-Lutzern Art Center

Luzern Art Center by Jean Nouvel

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Big roof

This expensive looking building revealed to me how surreal most of Jean Nouvels designs are. Before visiting this building I saw him as a typical steel and glass modernist. The price tag is easily conveyed in photographs but the wierdness is tamed.

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Peter Märkli: Schule am Birch

Birch Schule by Peter Märkli

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Big house with big joints

This school is part of a redevelopment of an industrial area in Oerlikon just outside Zürich. Märklis intention was to create a shool that is part of and a generator of public space. The repetitious precast facade aims towards the language of classical public buildings. The building faces in every direction and is “the same all over”. A reference to the Smithsonsand their concept of “a building of the conglomerate order”? The interiors follow the logic of a “big house with big joints”. The materials are robust and the joints large. The internal elevations are highly elaborated and there seems to be no attemt at reduction. The problem of sprinklers, fire alarms, smoke detectors and lights was solved in a positive way. Rather than hiding them Märkli has collected them in flat white cages attached to the ceiling. The suspended ceilings form boxy space-making shapes. The design choice between less or a robust more always fall on the latter. The palette of colours comes from a 1969 Alpha Romeo and is a muted green, grey, beige. A very successfull and unusual choice is the dark red colour used for sinks and flooring in wet areas. Märkli is was keen to point out that one should not use primary colours for children as in would contribute to an infantilizing of the young who are just as sensitive in these matters as adults.. Moreover the children, their art and their clothes will add colour to the school. Sadly I lost the 'real' roll of film from this visit. These photograhs are only my casual digisnaps.

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Berlin Free University

Berlin free University

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By Georges Candilis, Alexis Josic, Shadrach Woods, Jean Prouvé

This building designed by Team X members is considered to be a prime example of a mat-building. The low, large footprint structure has no front elevation, it is the same all over but responds to site and programme within the constraints of the construction system. It has been successfully extended several times as the facade finish bear witness. Students use the vast areas of wide, carpeted, corridor floor to sit down, study, and socialize. The footprint of the building creates a total interior The courtyards are unable to challange the carpeted interior world as they in courtyard manner look inwards. The beautiful Jean Prouvé facade system in cor-ten steel is in a bad state and is to a large extent covered in gaffer tape and foil. The additions use other finishes with reasonable success but never with the beauty of the original rusting steel.

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Le Corbusier-Unite Berlin

Unité Berlin

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Le Corbusier's Unité Berlin

Not Corbs best work but it was still interesting to see. Especially the interior corridors and the scale of the building in the landscape.

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OMA-Dutch embassy Berlin

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Dutch Embassy Berlin

The building does not appear quite as dramatic i real life. The slice of building forming the two thin sides of the parcel is the most flamboyant architectural decision, only parts of if can be used by people. The (exterior) finish and materiality appear sober and sophisticated. The glased double facade seem expedient and beautiful at the same time.

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Peter Celsing-Misc

Peter Celsing

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Prolific modernist

The swedish architect who seem to have built everything.

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Leonie Geisendorf-School of St Goran

School of St Göran

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Brutalism

Built 1956-60, designed by Leonie Geisendorf.

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Sigurd Lewerentz: Church of St Mark

Church of St Mark by Sigurd Lewerentz

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Church of St Mark

The visual and tactile strenght of the brick construction allows for a freedom in detail and form. What could have been an incoherent mess of to many ideas is tied together, by the brick, into a building that has both monumental strenght and liberating looseness.

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Sigurd Lewerentz: Chapel of Resurrection

Chapel of Resurrection by Sigurd Lewerentz

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The impact of this building nears the narrative arts, it grabs your guts. The austerity of the exterior, the exaggerated proportions and long approach tries in vain to prepare you for the interior.

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Sigurd Lewerentz: Riksförsäkringsanstalten

Riksförsäkringsanstalten by Sigurd Lewerentz

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Riksförsäkringsanstalten

Even as a white modernistLewerentz designs were incredible strong and unlike his contemporaries. This building manages to be both classical and modernist without insecurity or blandness, Lewerentz design personality is stronger than the styles.

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Ivar Tengbom-Hogalids Church

Högalids Kyrka

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Högalids kyrka by Ivar Temgbom

An overly national romantic church.

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Åsö Gymnasium

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Eyesore with potential

Åsö gymnasium is pretty much a large dead area in Söder (area of Stockholm) but the complex has a stark beauty hidden in the ill maintained volumes.

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Warehouse

In södra Hammarbyhamnen this warehouse is beeing deconstructed. Its a very nice setup with a ultra light building ontop of the concrete deck.

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Herzog de Meuron-Laban Center

Herzog & de Meuron - The Laban Center

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Herzog de Meurondoes surfaces in Deptford. The building is beautiful, but its´s immaterial, unreal qualities are in to stark contrast with its surrounding. The fence, beautiful as it is, and other strong terriorial markings couple with the immaterial facade to create a beautiful, not hostile, but indifferent alien.

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Francesco Venezia-Maestre workshop

Francesco_Venezia - Maestre workshop

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University Workshop Building

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The Smithssons-London misc

The Smithsons

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Economist Building
Economist Building
Robin Hood Gardens
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The Economist Building is a direct result of the Berlin competition where the Smithsons refined their ideas of cluster buildings. The complex shows a softer side of the Smithsons and their debt to Mies is at the most obvious. The Economist building must be their most sucessful building, the thresholds and the gradual spatial transitions are very sensitive. The scale and positioning of the buildings show respect for the context whilst adding something distinctly new. The plaza is very well articulated and does form a nice shortcut in the city as envisaged by the architects.

Robin Hood Gardens

A very tough building located on a tough site. This building is an example of how the Smithsons were influenced by the heroic architecture they critisized.

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Caruso St John-Walsall Art Gallery

Caruso st John

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New Walsall Gallery

The most memorable thing about this gallery was its presence in the city. From a distance it looked like a large but special factory situated in the industial city. Secondly the way it was used by teenagers, hangin' out and snogging in an art gallery, unusual.

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