Urban SKin

Low tide, and the beach chairs look forlorn. Can you imagine living in the buildings across the way and staring out at the leisure seekers here? Lisbon | Portugal (by biostatprof)

Casares, Málaga | Spain (by Nacho Coca)

Aerial Cities by Humza Deas

The Art of Jennifer Bin

Ornament is Crime 

“Absence of ornament has brought the other arts to unsuspected heights,” Austrian architect and theorist Adolf Loos said in a seminal 1910 lecture titled “Ornament and Crime.” Coming out against the Art Nouveau movement, Loos called for “the elimination of ornament from useful objects” and hailed “smooth and precious surfaces” in the name of cultural progress.

This sentiment is the guiding principle of Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture, a new book that celebrates modernist architecture from its origins in the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, written by Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill.

David Romero’s Hooked on the Past

Architect David Romero has created color visualizations of a pair of now-demolished Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, previously only seen in black-and-white photographs. Romero’s Hooked on the Past images visualize the interiors and exteriors of Frank Lloyd Wright’s demolished Larkin Administration Building and ruined Rose Pauson House, as well as their detailing and furniture.

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The Art of Building

The Art of Building photography competition is an international showcase for the very best digital photography of the built environment. It is open to both professional and amateur photographers.

The competition is run by the Chartered Institute of Building and celebrates the creativity of the industry, the passion of the people who work within it, and the impact their work has on those who make use of the final construction.

Here are some of the shortlisted images on the running for best image of 2016, you can vote for your favorite here!

Identified from the top:

Flatiron Building in the Snowstorm, Michele Palazzo 

The Hive, Marco Grassi

Coast minimalism, Senad Tahmaz 

Control, Roman Robroek

Purelife, Shibasish Saha 

Peacock, Gina Soden

People’s Friendship Arch, Oleksandr Nesterovskyi

Elevation, Naf Selmani

The Gherkin, James Tarry