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18th February 2019

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Corbusier’s Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Roncham

Look at this together with the previous post to ge

Look at this together with the previous post to get the sense of the whole. We could have titled these photos, “ In Celebration of the Cantilever”; to suspend a weight of concrete with such apparent effortless ease. If you glory in the cantilever, share snaps of your favourite examples. Photo with thanks to @derek_swalwell

Brutalist or …? The ‘place where the sun sets’ on a large expanse of concrete ‘where every beam is supported by the previous one and supports the next one’ This is Hemeroscopium House, built by the architect Antón García-Abril with his architectural practice, Ensamble Studio (2005-2008). In an interview with Icon Magazine he also noted that more than just a family home ‘… it has also become our laboratory – we are living and experiencing the structures that we are using and the research that we were developing in the office. And we are receiving first-hand information, because usually as architects we only have reports of how our buildings behave.” Photo with thanks to @derek_swalwell

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