The storefronts, façades, and marquees of Portugal’s second city offer a startling blend of styles. Traditional tilework, geometric modernism, and startlingly honed typography often cover multiple stories, with signage making full use of the city’s often tall, narrow buildings.
A new collection from Blue Crow Media gives a global perspective on monumental concrete structures.
Like many urban centers in the Netherlands, Eindhoven experienced massive devastation of its architecture and infrastructure during WWII.
London-based publisher FUEL‘s books on Modernist and Brutalist architecture have generally focused on Russia and Central Asia, in a…
WITH A TOTAL population of 56,000 spread across a landmass twice the size of all other Nordic countries combined, Greenland’s overall density hovers at just over zero. The precursors to Greenland’s modern-day inhabitants were settlers both indigenous and European, dating back millennia and including the Saqqaq, Independence I-II, and Dorset cultures, as well as the Greenlandic Vikings who settled in the far south in 982 (led by Erik the Red). All these prior cultures and settlements, however, disappeared, leaving only archaeological records.
The Großer Heineberg is a 56-meter hill in Potsdam-Bornim (peak at 52.435010, 12.988588, map below). After WWII it was used as a dump for building materials, and while the vegetation has generally made a comeback the soil is still filled with pieces of brick, tile, and glass, with larger piles of rubble appearing frequently.
