How cool is Norman Mailer’s place? The New York Times: “In the author’s raucous younger years there was a hammock strung up between the rafters, a trapeze swing dangling from the ceiling and a rope ladder, providing a more adventurous way to scale the apartment.” More images of it here.
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Text from oobject:
…[T]he Kirkbride Plan … created a very unusual form of architecture for asylums throughout the Anglosphere that was used until the 20th Century. As a result of their demise, most are abandoned ruins today, giant, rotting testimonies to a bygone era of clinical Victorian discipline combined with neo-Gothic extravagance.
The Kirkbride Plan consists of an enormous a[nd] symmetrical staggered wing, like a bird made out of lego. Men are on the left and women on the right in wings that radiate from the main entrance for increasingly violent or incurable patients. Early mental institutions where patients had to pay for their own incarceration would also vary in class (rich to poor) on the y axis. The staggering of the wings ensured the flow of air through each, purging them of diseased vapors perhaps, such was the Victorian obsession with fresh air, from outdoor tuberculosis wards to seaside promenades and piers.
Via bookshelves:
El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Converted from a theatre.
Deputy Dog posted these photos of Eglise Saint-Merri the other day. A couple of commenters mentioned the chairs might be left over from Hugo Bonamin’s “Les Chaises” installation for the 2005 Nuit Blanche; the hanging painting, Mein Engel, is also Bonamin’s.
Larger photos here
“Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin makes images of unexpected buildings – that is, he ‘combines photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures.’”
Text source; discovered via Interior design room.
I call architecture frozen music.
