il pantheon
roma

galleria umberto
naples

flatiron building
toronto

les salons de l'atalaïde
bruxelles

st. basilius
mockba

some pink house
in new orleans

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guggenheim - bilbao - frank o. gehry - 1997




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the new seattle public library is pretty cool

(just a note.. my office building is peeking out on the top left)

Boulee Cenotaph (Never Built)


In 1784, French architect Etienne-Louis Boulée designed a memorial for Newton. This cenotaph was to be a vast hollow sphere. Hundreds of meters across, by day light would shine through small holes pierced in the dome to form a star-field, a predecessor of the planetarium. By night, a great lamp lit a giant orrery suspended in the sphere’s center. The entirety of the universe as known in the late 18th century would be represented within. Boullee adhered to Neoclassical geometric principles and worked mostly with large, clean, solid forms. It was not until the 20th century that the technology to create buildings this size even existed, but his works inspired architecture for centuries hence, including the Hayden Planetarium, and unfortunately including Speer’s fascist designs for the 3rd Reich and the Soviets’ monumental plans in the 1920s.*

*from here