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Sad and demented but social.
Here’s a list of thoughts I had while watching Django Unchained. It’s not going to be as well received as the list of things I wrote for Les Miserables. You know, because of the accidental racism and stuff.
- I’ve been in this theater for six minutes and I’m already being forced to sit…
Enceladus Geysers Water into Space, Cassini, December 25, 2009 — Michael Benson
Skyscraping Tower of Abraham Lincoln Books
There is a lot to be said about Abraham Lincoln, one of America’s most influential presidents, which is made abundantly clear by the newly erected tower of books in the nation’s capital. The cylindrical structure stands three stories high at approximately 34 feet in height and features about 6,800 books representing over 15,000 titles about the 16th president of the free world. The innumerable volumes of works present in this towering pillar symbolize the never-ending discussion about the famed American president.
Placed in the lobby of Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership, it makes for an excellent introductory piece to the new museum dedicated to Lincoln’s history. Fascinatingly, it is adjacent to where Lincoln died at the Petersen House. The museum is currently under construction and set to open later this month, in time for President’s Day.
Daffodil House, a replica Victorian in Pacific Grove, California.
Photo by Ghostom.
Cane Hill was an insane asylum in Croydon, London in use until 1991 when – by all appearances – everyone just got up and walked out. Some of the inmates were transferred to other secure locations but the hospital, and much of the medical apparatus still remains.
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Basque Health Department Headquarters Coll-Barreu Arquitectos
The site is located in the crossroad of two important streets of the Ensanche neighborhood, designed in 1862. The restrictive city rules compel to repeat the shape of the neighboring walls, reducing penthouses according to a curved directive, chamfering the corner and building a tower on it. The folded façade generates multiple visual directions from inside to the streets bellow, and also from the highest floors to the landscape that surrounds the city, a highly effective mechanism for the incorporation of urban vitality inside the building.