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Otakar Novotný, Czech architect

9th January 2023

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National Library of Kosovo

29th February 2020

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Nilson Nelson Gymnasium, Brasilia

24th September 2019

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Narkomfin Building

4th September 2019

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10th August 2018

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Oscar Niemeyer

“the concrete poet”

24th October 2017

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Richard Neutra; A career that spanned the Hapsburg Empire to Hollywood

24th October 2017

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Lalbhai Institute of Indology, Ahmadabad, India, 1

Lalbhai Institute of Indology, Ahmadabad, India, 1962. Architect Balkrishna Doshi. Photo with thanks to @lukas.schlatter An early example of his public buildings, the design is said to have been partially inspired by Kenzo Tange’s 1960 Kurashiki Town Hall project (check it out over at @greyscapeworld )

Chiesa San Paolo Apostolo (1972) in Gallarate, Ita

Chiesa San Paolo Apostolo (1972) in Gallarate, Italy. Originally conceived as a project of the Commission for Sacred Art in 1968, architect Mariarosa Zibetti Ribaldone’s beautiful building was dedicated on October 7 1973.
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Just a quirky example of novelty architecture? The Teacup Dome gas station is an anything but kitsch reminder of a nasty scandal, declared the ‘high water mark of cabinet corruption’.

When architect Jack Ainsworth designed a petrol station as a teapot with a handle and spout in 1922 he wasn’t just nodding to a rock formation, a ‘geological structural uplift’ to be precise described before its erosion as having a ‘handle’ and ‘spout’, located close to important navel oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. He was reminding everyone of its connection to a criminal trial and Senate investigation that gripped the nation and said to be of the magnitude of the Watergate scandal.

It saw Albert Fall, the Interior Secretary of President Warren G Harding’s administration sent to prison after awarding two of his friends leases to extract oil from Teapot Dome oil fields which held crucial naval oil reserves (alongside a bunch of other sites), and brought the Harding government down.

Today the teapot sits protected in the Memorial Park of the City of Zillah, Washington, after taking a bashing and caving in after being hit by car in the 1970s. It’s now restored and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Photo with thanks to @modtraveler

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