A wonderfully curved 1860s blonde sandstone tenement on the corner of Wilton Street and Belmont Street in the West End of Glasgow.
For me, nice, sweeping curves are one of the major features missing from many modern buildings. I've often wondered if this is because straight-edged boxes are much easier to draw with the Computer-Aided Design software now used by many architects.
Poem
Partially Slanted
These are The Paths It was Handed
Turning and Twisting
Coexisting and insisting
To be partially Slanted
Slanted to Curves
Pacing to the Words
That Gives Flight
Delight
Like Flight to The Birds
Probably the best and most comprehensive video about why curvature continuity is so important in product design, what causes those “bumps” on the edges of regularly rounded rectangles, and why it all works as it works.
The Continuity of Splines (youtu.be)
Probably the best and most comprehensive video about why curvature continuity is so important in product design, what causes those “bumps” on the edges of regularly rounded rectangles, and why it all works as it works.