Tag Archives: Architecture

1964: World’s Largest Miniature City

Posted on August 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

Built for the 1964 World’s Fair at a cost of $672,000 (about $5.3 million in 2017), the Panorama of New York City at the Queens Museum is the world’s largest architectural model of a city. It includes about 895,000 miniature … Continue reading →

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1991: Three Doors

Posted on August 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Charles Matton: Boulevard Saint Germain (3 doors) (1991)

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1905: Doors

Posted on August 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Vilhelm Hammershøi: Open Doors (1905)

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1929: The Metropolis of Tomorrow

Posted on August 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

Hugh Ferriss: Illustration from The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929) (source)

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1789: The Bastilles Made from the Bastille

Posted on August 13, 2017 by corvusfugit

Pierre-François Palloy owned one of the largest building firms in Paris when the Bastille fell on July 14, 1789, and, after some debate over the fate of the prison that had come to symbolize tyranny in the city, he acquired … Continue reading →

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1756: Allegory

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Allegorical Frontispiece of Rome and its history from Le Antichità Romane (1756)

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2014: Homesick

Posted on August 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

A still from Hrair Sarkissian’s video Homesick (2014), in which he destroys a scale model of the apartment building in Damascus in which he grew up and where his parents still live.

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2013: The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz constructed these model buildings in the 1950’s and 1960’s, working with cardboard, matchboxes, wallpaper scraps, and magazine pages. They were discovered by artist Oliver Croy in 1993 in a Berlin junk shop, each in a … Continue reading →

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1913: Whitlock’s Folly

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

Once located on the southeastern tip of the Bronx, this mansion was built by Benjamin Morris Whitlock in 1859. Sitting on a fifty-acre estate, the structure boasted a hundred rooms and was said to have cost $350,000 (about $9.5 million … Continue reading →

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1944: Model City

Posted on July 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

The decorative industrial management buildings and exhibition centers in authoritarian countries are much the same as anywhere else. The huge gleaming towers that shoot up everywhere are outward signs of the ingenious planning of international concerns, toward which the unleashed … Continue reading →

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