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aroomforarchitecture · 1 year ago
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021. COMMUNITY HALL
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madlori · 5 months ago
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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.
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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:
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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.
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fashionsfromhistory · 9 months ago
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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)
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indiaartndesign · 2 years ago
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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
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aeide-thea · 2 years ago
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Stained glass by Constantine Woolnough, 1858 Church of St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk Photography by Simon Knott
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bhrarchinerd · 1 month ago
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Order by Rob Oo Via Flickr: Ohgigaoka Campus, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Noinochi, Japan. Design (1967): Sachio Otani.
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dziubomir · 2 months ago
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mim70 · 6 days ago
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Residential building on the Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Koltusi (Keltto), near Vsevolozhsk, Saint Petersburg region
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science70 · 1 year ago
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Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technological Research and Development, Kiev, Ukraine, 1971.
Architects: Lev Novikov, Florian Turiev
Photography: Johansen Krause
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lindenardenshighlights · 4 months ago
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"Paris is always a good idea." ~ Audrey Hepburn
Palais de l’Institut de France
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julianhuxley · 1 year ago
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Two penguins “inspect” an architectural maquette of the new Penguin Pond, London Zoo.
Photograph by John Havinden, 1934 (RIBA)
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emaadsidiki · 7 months ago
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Institute of France (Learned Society)
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College of the Four Nations -&- French Academy
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fashionsfromhistory · 9 months ago
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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)
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bleachbleachbleach · 27 days ago
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On the topic of wheels, what do you think of Akon's giant cart? It was really funny to me that it only appears in two panels of the manga, but because of the nature of animation, they had to show him pushing that thing around for like 3 solid minutes. I'm a little disappointed they couldn't have come up with something to put in it, some writhing tentacles or something. Do you think the Squad 12ers ever push each other around in these things when it gets real late in the lab and they're feeling punchy? Has Rin ever napped in one?
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There probably aren't more wheels in Soul Society because they are simply too powerful. Plus, too many simple machines and the physics of the place becomes just a little *too* legible and other things start breaking down. It's a delicate trade-off, and there's a faction of the 12th that privately believes that although the headliner balance that always gets talked about in Soul Society is the souls (it being the eponymous balance, and the one most directly related to the present shinigami mandate), it's actually the wheels you need to watch out for. (It's worth noting that, yes, of course this 12th faction is related to the Train Guys underground, being that the train 1) has wheels, and 2) is a Very Important thing in Soul Society that almost no one else thinks about regularly.)
Indeed, the train and these carts share some phylogenetic relation, though of course it's quite distant. But not so distant that most shinigami in the 12th aren't careful about how they comport themselves around the carts, as rumor has it they sometimes exhibit a mind of their own and a few of them can be very persuasive. (It's not unusual to push an empty cart around for three whole minutes with seemingly not ask or destination in mind, just to diffuse some of the animacy of the damn thing. Akon usually tries not to take the carts for a walk without some other express purpose, for efficiency's sake, but Nemu's needs don't often align with efficiency's sake, so they walk. They talk. They push an empty cart nowhere.)
Rin's heard all the warnings. He is also friends with most of the cart-walking shinigami (who are usually not Akon, and tend to have fairly high turnover because sometimes they just *disappear* and it's never been proven whether they were called to volunteer for what is listed in the budget as "other experiments" or whether the carts took them for a walk), because he is generally pretty excited about the carts, given his interest in Little Guys:
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[Bleach e134]
One day he hopped in one, and was suddenly overtaken by the feeling that he should nap in it, as in a rowboat headed for a waterfall (according to the cart, this was a good thing).
When he woke up, he wasn't anywhere he recognized, though the tracks in the dirt (and even the hard stone--grooves worn into it as though wheels had been tracing this place for a long, long time) suggest he was not the first to find himself there. It was cold, but surprisingly dry, with a brine to the air like a sea without water. As his eyes adjusted to the dark and the rest of his sensorium to the nature of the reishi here, he realized he was in some kind of cavern. It felt a little like the walls of the Seireitei, the seki-sekki they were made from. Perhaps that was what made this place, too.
Whether he was there for a few hours or a week or several years, he's not sure, but at some point he fell asleep again and when he woke, he was back in the lab. Based on the date on the calendar, it had in fact been months, but no one could remember missing him, or else were playing a very elaborate game where they pretended not to for the sake of the bit; and Rin can't begin to guess which was more likely, because that commitment to indeterminacy is the nature of the 12th. All his work was... done... He wasn't behind on anything. But that only meant either his colleagues had done his work for the sake of the bit (less unlikely than it sounds--if there's one thing that truly unites the Gotei, it's not duty to serve but duty to the bit), or he'd managed to be in two places, two states, at once. He'd been in the cart and not in the cart. Naturally.
After his return, a bulletin did go out, though. A revision to the guest rules, which outside visitors to the 12th would all now need to sign:
Don't touch anything.
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vintage-ukraine · 8 months ago
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Polytechnic Institute Metro Station in Kyiv, 1969
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proofinggentlewoman · 5 months ago
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The Obelisk (1788) - Hubert Robert
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