The monastery of La Tourette of the Dominican Order of Lyon was built in 1957-1960 by Le Corbusier. It is in Eveux-sur-Arbresle, near Lyon in France for free in the countryside. The system consists of a church, the monastery itself, with 100 cells, chapter room, classrooms, library and refectory. The basic shape is a rectangle that is formed of four wings. The architecture works through its clear design and layout very strict and austere – a place of silence and prayer. The box shape of the church was suspended by the lighting on both sides and provide for a special light show inside.

The versatile artist who had studied architecture in Athens, is mainly known as a musician and composer. received in the history of architecture but it is by his decisive participation in the studio of Le Corbusier during the 1950s. For the monastery of La Tourette near Lyon in Eveux (1955-59), Xenakis was not only project managers but also the designer of the vertical window divisions of the main facade and the cloister. Read the rest of this entry »

Pierre Puget sculptor, illustrator, painter and architect of French seventeenth century, was born in Marseilles in 1620 and died there in 1694. At fourteen, he learned his trade from the wood sculptor Jean Roman. It creates in the workshop many decorative pieces for ships. Later he worked with Pietro da Cortona to Florence (1638-1643), with Bernini in Rome (1661-1662) and then in Genoa until 1668.

He returned to Marseilles in 1643 and received several commissions, including the cathedral of Marseilles. After his stay Genoese, he became director of construction of the arsenal of Toulon. Read the rest of this entry »

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
- John Greenleaf Whittier, “Maud Muller,” 1856
The Wagner & Nauland Block, a composition of two Italianate commercial structures at 742-748 Seneca Street, was demolished in the late 1990s. Was it necessary?

This photograph, taken at about 1979 by Black Rock activist Scott Glasgow, shows the block in its final iteration as Mindy’s Home Service, a used appliance store that occupied the site into the mid-1990s. The heritage structures, which would have finely complemented the streetscape of any city, were reportedly in good repair at the time of their demolition, only a few years before the 2002 rehabilitation of the Larkin Terminal Warehouse, 500 feet away, shattered misconceptions about the potential marriage of preservation and economic development in Buffalo’s “near downtown.” Read the rest of this entry »

The Cor Jesu High School in Malang town East Java was a historical building it was built in 1924, finished in 1926 during Netherlands colonial in Indonesia. Corridor between classroom still carefully although have ever experienced fired.

The ornament details on this building have an eccentric colonial design. One of the detail which is remain to defended as artistic object and still be functioned till now there are the Bell made from brass. Read the rest of this entry »

The Larkin Company’s corporate logo, emblazoned across the late mail-order company’s Larkin Terminal Warehouse for the past 97 years, is still a potent advertising vehicle for the heritage structure, now repurposed as Class-A office space.

The corporate logo (“LCo”) was actually obscured for years by another sign for Graphic Controls, which leased 4,000 sq. ft. space in the former warehouse in 1940 and later purchased the entire building from the Larkin Warehouse Co. in 1967, the likely year of the original sign’s concealment. (Graphic Controls expanded to the nearby Exchange Street Industrial Park in 2001.) When the mammoth 600,000 sq. ft. structure was purchased by investors Howard Zemsky, Bill Jones, Doug Swift, and Joe Petrella in 2002, the original Larkin sign was revealed, a highly-visible first step in the building’s rehabilitation. Read the rest of this entry »