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Staircase Stuesday. From yesterday’s opening of the new Musée Picasso exhibition... but the true pleasure is a surprisingly comprehensive exhibition on Diego Giacometti’s light fixtures and furniture commission for the museum, in 1
Goodbye Paris, goodbye summer 😢
Maison du Brésil, by Lúcio Costa and Le Corbusier, 1959. One of the more controversial buildings associated with Le Corbusier in Paris (but aren’t they all?) is the Maison du Brésil, at the Cité Universitaire. Origin
The new Institut Giacometti, which recreates his studio as well as mounts exhibitions around his work, housed in a incongruous but beautiful Art Nouveau house in the 14th arrondisement.
The accidental Concrete Architecture Week ends with Jean-Michel Wilmotte’s Celestins underground parking structure in Lyon, with an installation by Daniel Buren. (swipe for the Buren piece in action). Thank you again to @olivier.abry for the re
An amazing visit to the Bischofberger gallery compound in Zurich. A series of industrial buildings were completely gutted and imaginatively resurfaced by Baier Bischofberger Architects to house gallery and collecting activities. One building is cover
Lugdunum, the Gallo Roman Museum by Bernard Zehrfuss in Lyon. Although little know outside of France, Zehrfuss was an important architect and collaborated with Marcel Breuer and Pier Luigi Nervi on the UNESCO building in Paris. Built into a hillside
It’s a Staircase Stuper Stuesday! . It’s not a superlative I hand out lightly, but when it comes to the main staircase at Rudolf Steiner’s cast concrete expressionist Goetheanum, built in 1928, it’s a no brainer. If you know o
Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals: It’s hard to believe this building is 20 years old. In 1995 I invited Zumthor to lecture at Rice University — he showed up with his teenage son, both dressed in cowboy dusters — and the photos of t
Climbed 2000 m in elevation to get this view 😅. Good thing the car has automatic transmission!
Birthday bath. Been wanting to come here for years... 🎂🏊🏻‍♀️ (Also, fotos verboten! So these are not up to the usual standards.)
Train Week concludes with, in reverse order of trip: Zurich, Cologne, Solingen, and Düsseldorf. 🚆
I know it’s not Stuesday, but with something this good... Arne Jacobsen’s Aarhus City Hall. Killer staircase, among many other elements.
Day Two of Train Week: Aarhus Central Station. Poul Henningsen lamps are like tap water in Denmark, they liberally sprinkle it everywhere. And the effect is gorgeous.
Just left Copenhagen but already missing it. In fact, I couldn’t get the Frederiksberg Town Hall out of my mind so I went back yesterday to properly photograph it. Can’t wait to make the story a part of the Copenhagen issue of AUGUST Jour
Here we go: Train Week commences, starting with Copenhagen Central Station 🚅🏛
Staircase Stuesday: Grand (the Christianborg Palace), Modern (Arne Jacobsen’s SAS Hotel), and Rustic (Karen Blixen’s House). A nice way to end the Copenhagen trip. Thanks to everyone for a great stay!
Fire and water. Jeppe Hein’s installation “The Only Way In Is Out,” at the contemporary art venue Cisternerne, an underground, former water cistern. 👩‍🎨 💦 @cisternerne
Happy birthday to Eero Saarinen, the Bernini of Modernism. He would have been 108 this year, but his buildings and furniture look as fresh as ever. Knoll advertising graphics by Herbert Matter.
“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.” The Karen Blixen House, on the Danish coast.