Nuno Laranja: architecture

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Travel diary: Rotterdam

A selection of photographs taken during some cold grey autumn days in the impressive city of Rotterdam — an obligatory destination for fans of modern architecture.

"German photographer Markus Brunetti has spent the last 10 years embracing the nomadic lifestyle, travelling Western Europe in his truck and documenting the façades of churches, cathedrals, and cloisters that he encounters throughout the continent. The resulting collection of photographs, aptly titled FAÇADES, is a stunning display of the intricate details within these ancient structures, documented through photos that bring to mind the original architect's drawings. Brunetti uses a labor-intensive, time-consuming process to produce his large-scale photographs. He shoots each structure from top to bottom and then compiles a large number of frames to create a singular profile shot. (...)" — Via My Modern Met

Short architectural poems

Abendland

Zonenrandgebiet

An-Sgurr

Malakoff

Ostpol

Collages by designer Matthias Jung.

Downtown Munich

Photographer Víctor Enrich digitally reconfigures the same building in Munich in 88 different dispositions. View them all on his website.

I am the sub-librarian

Helsinki University Main Library by Anttinen Oiva Architects. (Because books will never die.)

via designboom

A home for Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was one of Portugal’s greatest modernist writers, renowned for creating different pseudonyms and writing personalities, each with their own backgrounds and characteristics. The three most significant ones were Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis. Architect Filipe Paixão created a stone wall house as a place to read, write and think through, for a poet that is at the same time several. Each of the rooms vary in dimension, geometry and light according to the unique personal traits of Pessoa and his pseudonyms.

Fernando Pessoa’s writing room