Written by admin on 22 February 2012
arne jacobsen, ibstrupparken housing II, gentofte, denmark 1946
Image by seier+seier
ibstrupparken housing, second stage, gentofte, denmark 1946.
architect: arne jacobsen, 1902-1971.
the second stage of jacobsen’s ibstrup park housing was done shortly after his return to denmark from exile in neutral sweden. once again, jacobsen offers us modernist manipulations of a traditional pitched roof brick house but the horisontal emphasis is new: an early version of an expression that would dominate housing the following decades.
the plan behind the balconies is related to kay fisker’s verstersøhus. but the subtleties of flower boxes overlapping with the brick walls and windows extending over the balcony fronts create a lightness which is a far cry from how fisker used his classicist training to bring his huge block of flats under control with vertical giant orders.
there is a selfconscious lack of drama in the little architecture we have from the 1940′s. I fear this makes its qualities invisible to our age.
the glassed-in basement floor adds considerably to the lightness of the building. it also allows us to see the original window profiles from 1946, predictably thinner than their replacement in the floors above.
more jacobsen.
Tags: 1946, arne, denmark, gentofte, housing, ibstrupparken, jacobsen
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Written by admin on 21 February 2012
FISHBACK HOUSE
Image by lewsviews
This house, located in Jeffersonton Virginia, was named for a German stonemason who moved to Culpeper county in 1728. This, the third house he built , was completed in about 1750. Thomas Jefferson was a frequent guest and his ghost is rumored to be an ocosional visitor. Just prior to the second battle of Manassas Robert E. Lee used it as a headquarters. I learned this from the homes current owner.
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Written by admin on 21 February 2012
house of lights
Image by Grant MacDonald
This is a shot of a house on Caledonia that always jumps into the Christmas light thing with both feet. Every square inch of their yard is lights. More shots to come.
Tags: House, lights
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Written by admin on 18 February 2012
Low House (demolished) from Library of Congress
Image by whitewall buick
William G. Low House, demolished, formerly located at 3 Low Lane, Bristol, RI
Architects: McKim, Mead and White
Built 1886, demolished 1962
Cervin Robinson, Photographer. Photo taken September 18, 1962
From Historic American Buildings Survey at the Library of Congress
Probably the greatest example of the shingle style ever built.
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Written by admin on 18 February 2012
The house in the valley
Image by deadstar 2.1
Strobist: sb-28 at half power inside the house, manually triggered in front of each window + sb-24 outside triggered once.
Tags: House, valley
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Written by admin on 17 February 2012
A little house
Image by plastAnka
A little house next to the meadow.
Tags: House, little
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Written by admin on 16 February 2012
The house with the moss green paint.
Image by dalylab
This is a house we love, the paint color matches the moss growing on the roof.
Tags: green, House, moss, paint.
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Written by admin on 15 February 2012
Sapp Shotgun House
Image by tantrum_dan
An abandoned shotgun-style house on the Sapp property near Archer, Florida.
historic.alachua.fl.us/infosys/browse_detail.php?SITE_ID=…
Tags: House, Sapp, Shotgun
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Written by admin on 15 February 2012
Alexander Graham Bell house, Pigeon Cove
Image by Joel Abroad
Edmunds house, Pigeon Cove, Mass., November 2011: where Alexander Graham Bell lived during the summer of 1881
Tags: Alexander, Bell, Cove, Graham, House, Pigeon
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Written by admin on 14 February 2012
Grandma’s House, Redlands, CA
Image by inkknife_2000
(1 in a 19-picture set)
Where I grew up in Iowa, everyone had a grandma who lived in a little house such as this. When I stop and look at such a house as this, I can smell Grandma’s cookies baking in the kitchen.
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