Appearing in England towards the end of the Industrial Revolution (in the second quarter of the 19th Century), greenhouses were well poised to become an architectural representative of the Victorian Age’s zeitgeist; for greenhouses were not only the material manifestations of the revolution (beginning prior to Queen Victoria’s reign) in their use of iron and glass, but also reflective of the revolutions in the fields of science, economics, including the social mobility of the newly emerging middle class all creating demands for new types of urban and architectural spaces in which to spend the leisure time resulting from industrialization and its resulting new prosperity.
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Golconde interior.
Golconde Dormitory in Pondicherry, India
Golconde Dormitory. Team effort by both Antonin Raimund and Seattle's own George Nakashima. It was primarily the building section that caught my eye and had me wanting to know everything about the project.
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Waterfront For All: Incredibly exciting to see the waterfront effort come to this point. So many people in the room contributed to get us here.
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The ultimate goal of this exercise is to create a catalogue of buildings we feel have traits that can be carried forward to future development . . . .
Read MoreBIG Architects at the 2010 Venice Biennale
We admire BIG for their ambition and willingness to get innovative design and concepts out into the public realm for discussion.
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