#institutional architecture

[aroomforarchitecture]

021. COMMUNITY HALL

[madlori]

A few days ago, my BFF and I took a quick overnight trip to Detroit. She wanted to go to their art museum, it's a 3.5 hour drive, so we decided to make an overnight of it.

The Detroit Institute of Art has a truly historic permanent installation, namely a courtyard completely covered with murals by Diego Rivera, and they are stunning in that "stand there and get teary over human creativity" kind of way.

Anyway that isn't the point of this post.

We went to a jazz club that night, and the next morning we went for brunch. We had like an hour's wait, so we walked a few blocks away in downtown Detroit to the Guardian Building, which I'd been told was worth seeing. It's just an office building, open whenever, you can just walk in and look around, but it looks like THIS:

It's an absolutely stunning Art Deco building that's currently owned by Wayne County and houses most of their offices, along with other tenants.

There is a ton of Deco architecture in Detroit, as most of the big expansion of the city during the automobile boom was in the 20s and 30s. Downtown Detroit is back to being a bustling social hub and the city's recovered a lot from its crises.

I recommend a visit.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)

[indiaartndesign]

MAD Architects’ Winning Design for Changchun Airport T3!

MAD Architects reveals winning design for the new terminal of Changchun Airport – a biomorphic design that appears as a floating feather. Check out the massive 270,000 sq. m. terminal building and its state-of-the-art features here… https://bit.ly/MADArch_IAnD

[aeide-thea]

Stained glass by Constantine Woolnough, 1858 Church of St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk Photography by Simon Knott

[obsessedbyneon]

Master post: The interior landscape design in the Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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[dziubomir]

[science70]

Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development, Kiev, Ukraine, 1971.

Architects: Lev Novikov, Florian Turiev

Photography: Johansen Krause

[lindenardenshighlights]

"Paris is always a good idea." ~ Audrey Hepburn

Palais de l’Institut de France

[julianhuxley]

Two penguins “inspect” an architectural maquette of the new Penguin Pond, London Zoo.

Photograph by John Havinden, 1934 (RIBA)

[emaadsidiki]

Institute of France (Learned Society)

College of the Four Nations -&- French Academy

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1186)

[vintage-ukraine]

Polytechnic Institute Metro Station in Kyiv, 1969

[proofinggentlewoman]

The Obelisk (1788) - Hubert Robert

[obsessedbyneon]

State Of Illinois Revenue Center, Chicago, Illinois.

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[yz]

Busey Library. Urbana, IL. August 2024.

Fujifilm X-T50 with XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4.