Saudi Arabia Discovers It's Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper (futurism.com)
Open-Source Water Purification, Structures, and Sanitation (Off-Grid Communities) 📖💧🏠🚾🌱 (www.eco-libre.org)
Happy 2024! The Eco-Libre project published our 2023 Annual Report for last year....
Historical Museum of BiH in Sarajevo; built in 1963, architect Boris Magas (lemmy.ml)
Photo was made by myself. Original content under CC-BY-4.0.
St. Luka the Evangelist Church, Sarajevo, BiH, 2007 (lemmy.ml)
Original content, CC-BY-4.0
Studio Libeskind creates social housing block for first New York project (www.dezeen.com)
What Makes Buildings Beautiful (And Why Beauty Does Matter) (www.youtube.com)
In which The Aesthetic City takes a deep dive on why people (especially student and professional architects) tend to like adequately-beautifully, designed buildings in cities and towns over modern-age ones, and some more surprising factoids over tastes and philosophies of some notable modernist architects of today along the way.
Avala Tower, Belgrade, Serbia (lemmy.ml)
Telecommunication tower built in 1965 according to the project of Uglješa Bogunović, Slobodan Janjić and Milan Krstić. Destroyed in an air raid in 1999, rebuilt according to the original project in 2010. One of the most famous examples of Yugoslavian Brutalism in architecture. A photo of the tower was included in the...
British Museum Great Court Ceiling (feddit.uk)
The Great Court is the largest covered public square in Europe. The ceiling is made up of 3312 panels, every panel is a unique shape.
"50 yars of the USSR", Novokuznetsk, Russia (lemmy.ml)
Built in 1972, architect A. Vipov (А.И. Выпов). Unofficial name is “The Stone Flower”.
Pebble-inspired Lè Architecture in Taipei by Aedas (lemmy.ml)
Morphogenesis completes world's largest office building in India (www.dezeen.com)
BVG Bus depot Müllerstraße, Berlin (lemmy.ml)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (lemmy.ml)
Built in 1965 by the design of Ivan Antić and Ivanka Raspopović. By design building should look like a crystal. Renewed in 2007-2017. When the renovation began one of architects of the original project was still alive and participated in the renovation....
Genex Tower, Belgrade, Serbia. (lemmy.ml)
Genex Tower (or Western City Gate) is one of the most famous examples of Yugoslavian brutalism architecture. The sky scraper was built in 1979 by architect Mihajlo Mitrović. The left part of the building contained apartments and the right part was suited for offices. In communist era there was the office of "Generalexport" here...
Hotel Jugoslavija, Belgrade, Serbia. (lemmy.ml)
Built in 1969 by architect Lavoslav Horvat. A nice example of socialist modernism in architecture and Yugoslavian architecture. In communist-era it was used for foreign delegation and diplomats but it is semi-abandoned today and, as I know, is not used as a hotel anymore. More information may be found in wikipedia....
Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments (getpocket.com)
Habitat Qinghuangdao, China (www.archdaily.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/377936...
Weird and wonderful Soviet brutalist buildings.
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/270375...
Impressive Examples of Soviet Brutalism in Architecture - English Russia (englishrussia.com)
https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/8a37d43e-33d0-48c2-955c-2e65f38a672b.jpeg...
Soviet apartments looking really cool at night (lemmy.ml)
Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal, Norway. Currently the tallest completed timber building at 85.4 meters. (lemmy.ml)
Image by Øyvind Holmstad, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0....