architecture

I like this Perspective. Interior of the National Gallery of Canada designed by architect Moshe Safdie. Building materials consist of concrete, granite, wood, steel, and glass.

Andirons, 1909, Cast Iron, Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959) and George Mann Niedecken (American, 1878-1945)

An andiron sometimes called a dog, dog iron, or fire dog, is a horizontal iron bar upon which logs are laid for burning in an open fireplace. They are usually used in pairs. In older eras andirons were also used as a rest for a roasting spit or sometimes had a cup-shaped top to hold porridge.

Estee and Joseph Lauder Design Fund and gift of Scott Elliott in memory of Alex Sutherland, 1990

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. Over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of its midtown home, located on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown.

MoMA’s holdings include more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiseels d’Avignon and Three Musicians, Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin’s The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse’s Dance, Marc Chagall’s I and the Village, Paul Cezanne’s The Bather, Jackson Pollack’s Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills, and MoMA’s Library and Archives, the premier research facilities of their kind in the world, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 70,000 artists.

word from renderer : Continuying my HDR architecture exploration of Singapore.
United Overseas Bank Building, Central Business District, Singapore.

UOB Building, originally uploaded by DanielKHC.

Rotterdam architecture: futuristic office building near the central station.

Futuristic Office Building (Rotterdam Architecture), originally uploaded by fraktalisman.

Architecture (including landscape architecture) is the largest and most encompassing of the visual arts. One of the challenges faced by the user is to determine just how big a building is, and the yardstick against which we measure the size of a building is our own size. How big a building is, relative to the size of the average human being, is said to be its scale.

Techno city Karachi, originally uploaded by The Nish Adeel.

The gatehouse survive intact from the 17th century ,while the rest of the house was restored in 1881 (after the fire) to include the lattes advances in country house design .

Lanhydrock, originally uploaded by spectrefloat.

Contemporary Art Museum of Niterói, designed by famous Brazilian architect, Oscar Niemeyer, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originally uploaded by Leonardo Martins.

This Building Architecture was designed by Zaha Hadid.

Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, originally uploaded by ARKNTINA.

Contemporary Jewish Museum was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, located in San Francisco, California.

This building opening to the public on June 8, 2008.

Pre-opening at the Contemporary Jewish Museum., originally uploaded by Telstar Logistics.

Desert View watchtower was designed by Mary Colter architect, Located in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.

Desert View Watchtower, originally uploaded by Don_Hutter.