Urban Explorer Infiltrates an Abandoned Gasometer via Urban Ghosts
Situated somewhere in Europe, urban explorer Urbex Maestro captured this striking series of photographs featuring a now abandoned gasometer dating to the turn of the 20th century.
The vast empty structure, built in 1904, was designed to store 50,000 cubic metres of gas. The roof was capable of moving up and down to control the pressure inside the 60-metre diameter tank.
This gasometer is a typical example of the ornate industrial architecture that flourished throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, reflecting the importance of form as well as function.
Luyeyuan stone sculpture museum by Jiakun architects. Located in Xinmin town, Pi county, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
Optical Glass House designed by Hiroshi Nakamura & Nap in Hiroshima,Japan
Luyeyuan stone sculpture museum by Jiakun architects. Located in Xinmin town, Pi county, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
Lumio is a portable lamp that folds just like a book and when opened, it becomes illuminated from within. Designed by architect Max Gunawan, who launched it as a Kickstarter project, Lumio is now fully funded.
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Jacobs University by Max Dudler Architekt, Dietrich Architekten + Ingenieure.
Jacobs University is a private, state-recognised university with an international outlook, located in Grohn, a district of Bremen. To satisfy growing student numbers and the increasing emphasis being placed on university sports, Jacobs University deci- ded to convert its pre-existing campus sport facilities into a multi-usage building.
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Voyages Along Re-imagined Utopian Worlds By Jean-François Rauzier via Yatzer
Highly acclaimed, multi award-winning French photographer and visual artist Jean-François Rauzier has quite a long tradition as a distinctive visual storyteller and a prolific purveyor of re-imagined photographic hyper realities and utopian worlds. In 2002, he invented the concept of the HYPERPHOTO, an elaborate virtual image consisting of several hundreds of shots taken with a telephoto lens and then digitally stitched together with the aid of technology. Each composition is made up of between 600 and 3,500 individual close-up images and amounts up to 120.000.000 pixels in total. ”It’s an attempt to reveal every element of a place, taking photos as closely as possible, as widely as possible, and from all angles”
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Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook by Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon and Clara Wong.
Axonometric maps revealing Hong Kong’s multi-layered elevated walkways, ramps, elevators and infrastructure interchanges. Definitely enbiggen.
(read more on the guardian and randomwire)
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Theory of Moments (part I) by Instant Hutong
Temporary site specific installations in empty spaces and abandoned courtyards in XianYuKou district in Beijing. The neighbourhood is under threat of demolition and people are expected to leave it. In this situation of uncertainty for many of the local inhabitants, the project works through different approaches and media. Graphics patterns to decorate the public walls, redefinition of public spaces using existing materials founded on site, insertions of little elements to be used as playground, interactive installations with colours and sounds will define a series of “moments” rich of meaning in which to intensify the vital productivity of everydayness, according to the definition by Henri Lefebvre (Theory of Moments in “La Somme et le Reste”, 1959).
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