Life Without Buildings: an architecture blog

23 January 2008

Artful Project Documentation

The architectural photography of Kurt & Walter Photographies:









Amazing compositions and almost surreal environments.

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Anonymous PEJA said ... (1:42 PM) : 

"Amazing compositions and almost surreal environments."

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25 July 2007

San Francisco from the Bay Bridge

Circa 1971:


click the image for a GINORMOUS version.

Did you see Zodiac? That movie does an incredible job of channeling 1970's San Francisco, and there's a particular scene that has to be one of the coolest uses of a building as set-piece in film (after Cremaster 3 and King Kong). In order to illustrate the passage of time and the prolonged duration of the Zodiac case, a camera pans over a sped-up, historically accurate, San Francisco until we see the extremely sped-up construction of the Transamerica Building. Awesome. Well, this image reminds me of that except that it's real, which is arguably cooler. The color, the era, the scene, everything.

via Telstar Logistics

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13 April 2007

A View Into North Korea

The desolate grandeur and architectural vastness of North Korea as presented by photographer Mark Edward Harris, from his monograph, Inside North Korea, published by Chronicle Books.








More images can be found on his website.

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Blogger sheeep said ... (8:48 PM) : 

Ironically interesting photos. Enomously big monuments, tiny people in size and power...

 

Blogger reinito a.k.a brayan said ... (3:44 AM) : 

the pics are fantastic. it's also good to see you're posting again...

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ps. thnx for the link!

 

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