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Adam Nathaniel Furman🪬

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27 days

"Postmodernism, Architecture that Changed Our World" published by @RIBA @RIBABooks is available for preorder now!

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5 years

THREAD: So, most people associate Japanese design with either cute kitsch or zen-like minimalism, but its much more diverse, & 1 of my particular fav periods was the architecture of its 80-90s boom era; wild, strange & incredibly diverse, & unique in world architectural history

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Absolutely wild townhouse in Chicago

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Divine art-deco excentricity, Buenos Aires

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7 years

1960s overcladding is removed from a 1920s office building in San Antonio

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Iv been in love with, & mesmerized by the Thompson Center since I was a child. The most important postmodern public building in the world by far, it is an incomparably complex, virtuoso & ambitious symphony of geometry, polychromy, structure, space & ornament…

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One of the world’s great anomalies, Kyoto Station by Hiroshi Hara (1997) is a town-sized, public megastructure, fully built in one go to the coherent and total vision of a brilliant architect, effectively acting as a vast manifesto…

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6 years

Google maps algorithmic surrealism

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It’s quite hard to get my head around the fact that this huge heaving metropolis is right on a vast, aquamarine ocean of freshwater with beaches and water along its entire length

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I am totally obsessed with this building, Kenzo Tange’s imperiously elegant Tokyo Metropolitan Government complex from 1990 that is a Akira-style fusion of intricate granite ornament that recalls circuit boards and the towering profile of an ancient gothic cathedral…

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9 years

The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Bernini (left), & Lindsay Lohan (right) http://t.co/iOH4fxSKgC

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2 years

Ok so Preston Bus Station is even better than everyone says, its the bloody Parthenon of Brutalism, an absolute miracle of a building…

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The almost obscene slickness of Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz station in Leipzig by Max Dudler

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1 year

Some brick magic in the Fulton area of Chicago

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4 years

The delightful peachy-pink that Frank Lloyd Wright originally wanted the Guggenheim to be built in...

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One of the most beautiful art-deco crowns in the world, the black granite, green and gold terra cotta, with gold leaf and bronze trim Carbon & Carbide Building in Chicago by the Burnham Brothers, 1929

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The epic and delicate wall of handmade glass strata in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel

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The incredible layers of reflections and translucencies that are generated by Renzo Piano’s Maison Hermès in Ginza

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Chicago atmosphere

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2 years

An absolutely incredible facade, of sliced, bent, punctured and carved brick at Borges 2378, Buenos Aires

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1 year

It is difficult for me to put into words quite how radically sophisticated I find the Charnley-Persky House by Louis Sullivan in Chicago, it is a veritable pandora’s box of architectural delights

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Johnson Wax headquarters must have seemed like a meteor from the future had crashed into Racine Wisconsin when it was completed in 1939

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3 years

A dinosaur being delivered to the Museum of Science in Boston with Henry N. Cobb of I.M. Pei & Partner's Hancock Tower in the background, 1984

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Hans Hollein, model of the interior of the Haas House, Vienna, 1985

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The most glorious compost heap of modern architecture in the world, Chicago

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They demolished an entire neighbourhood to build this 1st year architecture school student F-grade fail project by Thomas Heatherwick

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4 years

Google maps algorithmic surrealism

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As urban vistas go, they don’t get more iconic than this… LaSalle St Chicago

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3 years

Greatest column since 426 BC

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1 year

So weird to think the biggest star in the design world’s career began with this, and only a couple of decades later ended up leaving a stadium-sized 200 million dollar suicide machine moored in the middle of Manhattan

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Scrawny lickle riverside house, Chicago

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4 years

THREAD: Colourful & shapely product design from the past 5 decades, a particularly rich seam in our consumer culture that I hope might b rediscovered soon (end of the black tablets of nothingness era pls). Here is the Sharp WN-30, collapsible pocket calculator 2 kick things off

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Marina City by Bertrand Goldberg looking spectacular in the sunshine

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One of the most fascinating complexes I’ve had the pleasure to’ve visited, the Palace of Youth and Sports in Pristina, designed by Živorad Janković and Halid Muhasilović and completed in 1977, is a vast Yugoslav-era project that brought numerous civic functions together…

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Chicago’s skyline is the best in the world. Full stop

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7 years

Phone box graveyard, Germany. Photo by Ralf Hirschberger

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One of Shin Takamatsu’s most important surviving buildings, the tiny, packed, positively vibrating-with-dark-energies Pharaoh Dental Clinic in Kyoto from 1984

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3 years

Córdoba Office Center, Córdoba, Argentina, by Miguel Angel Roca, 1987-93

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The Yasuyo building in Shinjuku, Tokyo, with its razor-sharp aluminium fins and three storey restaurant interior designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, was completed in 1969 (just after the riots!) by Nobumichi Akashi

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Richard Rogers’ incredibly ornate little hi-tech piece of jewelry in Shinjuku, Tokyo, the Kabuki-Cho Tower from 1983

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Nothing can quite prepare you for the symphony of decorative cast iron on the ground floor elevation of Sullivan’s Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store in Chicago from 1899

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My fav unbuilt skyscraper of all time, the oh-so-nearly-happened Dearborn Tower by Peter Ellis of SOM, with its layered polychromatic facade that would have glittered like a waterfall on normal days and exploded in a bonfire of reflected light when the sun was low on clear days

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6 years

From Alexey Kondakov’s series ‘Art History in Contemporary Life’

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2 years

Kyoto Station, one of my favourite buildings in the world, by the brilliant and under-appreciated Hiroshi Hara Image unknown source

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7 years

@Oniropolis The great wooden synagogues of the shtetls were probably the greatest ever architectural expression of Yiddish culture. All lost in the Holocaust.

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THREAD: the Italians have a very special way with their apartment buildings, with do many of them almost being pieces of art for the city... lets start with Condominio in piazza Carbonari, 1960 - 1961, Milan, by Luigi Caccia Dominioni (7/12/1913-13/11/2016)

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There r few things in architecture as magical as a beautifully charged absence, & the Chicago Civic Opera riverside elevation is 1 of the best, a vast, weighty void that is emphasized in its massiveness by the surrounding windows. By Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, 1929

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5 years

Probably the greatest monument to this era is also one of its last, and I believe the largest, to be completed, Hiroshi Hara’s incomparably spectacular, and overwhelmingly vast Kyoto station, begun in 1990 & finished in 1997 - Photo courtesy of Linus Yng

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Hiroyuki Wakabayashi‘s Humax Pavilion, Shibuya, Tokyo, 1993

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Gorgeous metal and stone signage artwork at the new 61 Curzon St in Mayfair

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THREAD: The great wooden synagogues of the shtetls were probably the greatest ever architectural expression of Yiddish culture. All lost in the Holocaust.

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Chicago layers

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Lumbini International Institute, Kenzo Tange, Nepal, 1978 - Photos via Laurent Beaudouin

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The absolutely mind-boggling beauty and sophisticated, immersively baroque elegance of Richard Gilbert Scott’s Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Birmingham, 1966-7 with stunning glass by John Chrestien

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Chicago atmosphere

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2 years

A couple more of these adorable rural primary schools in Morocco, both of these in Skoura

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4 years

THREAD. Shin Takamatsu is 1 of Japan’s greatest living architects, with an incredibly unique & beautifully executed body of mysterious & pregnant work that ought 2b far better known, & probably would be if they fit a more stereotypical idea of Japanese design....

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1 year

Goodbye Chicago 😭😭😭im leaving, but will keep posting for a bit as I took a lot of pictures

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Poor Norman has been reduced to colouring-in cad drawings by hand

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I cannot emphasise enough what an incredibly momentous and dangerous precedent has been set by the @V_and_A , effectively reintroducing the logic of Section 28 that brands LGBT+ people as being unsuitable for children, lumping us together with paedophiles and pornography…

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6 years

Pen and ink drawings by contemporary American graphic artist Benjamin Sack.

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Chicago atmosphere

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The exterior of the National Library of Kosovo, designed by Andrija Mutnjaković and completed in 1982, it is one of ex-Yugoslavia’s most important pieces of modern architecture…

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More romantic 1920s gigantism, Chicago

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The impressive stylistic hybridity of the Baháʼí House of Worship in Chicago comes together with immense elegance to create something at once strange and fascinating and also profoundly comforting and recognizable. Built between 1912-1953 & designed by Louis Bourgeois

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A couple of newly completed sections from the 57m long Mosaic for London Bridge Station that I designed

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It is incredible that after over 140 years the Temperate House at Kew still has the power to fill us with wonder. I was honestly like a child full of glee running around in it the other day

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Studio Gang’s iconic Aqua in Chicago

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Artists studios by Antonio Bonet, Buenos Aires 1938

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An almost unbelievably perfect little slice of North Italian neo-Gothic in Buenos Aires

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Palace of Culture for the Railway Workers, Aleksandr Dmitriev, 1927-1932, Kharkiv, Ukraine Photo by @R_P_Anderson

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The base of the mahoosively impressive Monadnock Building, the tallest load-bearing brick building ever built, & the largest office building in the world at the time of completion… by Burnham & Root and Holabird & Roche, Chicago

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Hiroyuki Wakabayashi‘s Maruto Bldg. No.17, Kyoto, Japan, 1991

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2 years

It beggars belief that they want to close all this off and stick a tower on top 😞

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Came across several of these amazingly ornate cast clocks on the streets of Chicago… the grandeur of public facilities long forgotten

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THREAD: Colour in architecture is 2 often avoided & feared, which is a recent & silly tendency, becos its the most powerful tool we have in creating beautiful, impactful & effective atmospheres thru design. Even the ancients knew this, & their buildings were all brightly coloured

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More Chicago mahoosiveness, Merchandise Mart, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, it was the largest building in the world at the time of its opening in 1930, being so large that it had its own ZIP Code (60654) until 2008

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Concrete castle at the University of Chicago

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Hello Buenos Aires, its been far too long

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This is the Aoyama Technical College, Aoyama, in Tokyo, by Makoto Sei Watanabe, finished in 1990

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Hiroyuki Wakabayashi‘s Life Inn Kyoto, Private senior citizens residence, 1986

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The deep, dark, intense and mysterious Noa building in Tokyo from 1974 by the singular and defiantly atavistic architect Seiichi Shirai who studied not architecture but philosophy at Berlin University in the 30s, which makes the building feel even darker…

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The almost aching beauty of the Hyakumangoku Kaga Maedas in Kanazawa, an Edo period palace of quite jaw-dropping sophistication

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St Olaf House, a glorious little art-deco masterpiece designed by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel, 1932

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Bunka No Sato, Cultural Centre, Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, Toyokazu Watanabe, 1990 - Image unknown source

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2 years

This tension member is feeling the compression. Heathrow T5

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Nash sublime

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Excentric neo-gothic, Buenos Aires

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4 years

I so wish Frank Lloyd Wright had gotten to build lots of skyscrapers, his designs for them were absolutely, brilliantly romantic. Design for the National Life Insurance Building, Chicago 1924

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THREAD: Postmodern architecture, now an umbrella term for an extremely diverse array of creative, imaginative & evocative approaches to building design spanning the world from the 60s to the 90s, is much maligned... it shouldn’t be, & here’s why...

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Chicago atmosphere

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The tiniest, but most utterly joyous of front gardens, Kanazawa

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And of course there’s Hara’s Umeda Sky Building in Osaka, the hole on the top of which you rise through on two vertiginous escalators, & was imagined as the void left by a departed spaceship... - Photo from Wikipedia

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THREAD: my collection of Penguin Classics about the great and the good of starchitecture

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10 months

As a demolition permit has bern issued for parts of the building, I’ll re-share this thread where i had an incredible visit seeing the Thompson Centre in its original form. Bye bye you v special thing (i think?)

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Iv been in love with, & mesmerized by the Thompson Center since I was a child. The most important postmodern public building in the world by far, it is an incomparably complex, virtuoso & ambitious symphony of geometry, polychromy, structure, space & ornament…

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I very much enjoy the cantilevered corners all over Buenos Aires, providing better circulation, a bit of shelter, and small moments of architectural drama, here in a lovely 1960s apartment building