Geological Map Of Great Britain - Sheet 2 - Scotland & England (North Of National Grid Line 500 Km N)

A New City - Matt Sawyer

The Gold Mines of Serra Pelada | Via

In the early 1980s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada, some 430 kilometers south of the mouth of the Amazon River, where a notorious gold rush was in progress. A few years earlier, a child had found a 6-grams nugget of gold in the banks of a local river, triggering one of the biggest race for gold in modern history. Motivated by the dream of getting rich quickly, tens of thousands of miners descended into the site swarming like ants in the vast open-air pit they had carved into the landscape. Salgado took some of the most haunting pictures of the workers there, highlighting the hazardous conditions in which they worked and the sheer madness and chaos of the operation.

During its peak, the Serra Pelada mine employed some 100,000 diggers or garimpeiros in appalling conditions, where violence, death and prostitution was rampant. The diggers scratched through the soil at the bottom of the open pit, filled it into sacks each weighing between 30 to 60 kilograms, and then carried the heavy sacks up some 400 meters of wood and rope ladders to the top of the mine, where it is sifted for gold. On average, workers were paid 20 cents for digging and carrying each sack, with a bonus if gold was discovered. Thousands of underage girls sold their bodies for a few gold flakes while around 60–80 unsolved murders occurred in the nearby town, where the workers lived, every month.

by  Rene Meyr “Fondacione Jodice 2” | Architecture School, Vienna University of Technology - TU Wien - Austria | March 2013

Andreas Papastergiou, Untitled, graphite on paper, 40 x 30 cm, 2016.

Design for the Living Room of a House for Max Hoffman of Rye, New York.  1955 -  Frank Lloyd Wright

The Peak Leisure Club | Zaha Hadid | Via

In 1982, Zaha Hadid won the competition for a new private club located in the hills ofKowloon. The architect proposed a horizontal skyscraper formed by different layers in order to create a new artificial topography. These layers were designed as large cantilevered beams that came from the ground and float above the site. One of the most interesting features of the project is the recovery of the suprematism proposed by El Lissiztky among others during the Russian Avant Garde as a starting point of her careerr. The superposition of different horizontal layers builds the project, adapting the programs into the design. Moreover, the open spaces between the beams are also one of the most interesting parts of The Peak. These areas create dramatic spaces where Zaha Hadid introduces leisure programs as the swimming pool.

Archigram Drawings - Architectural Design Magazine Number 41. August 1971, page 493

Time In Between - Fairy Tale Of Russia | Frank Herfort

The whole world is frozen in a condition of waiting. The people on these photos seem to be totally absorbed in a deep, paralyzing, enchanted slumber. And we have the uncanny sneaking feeling that this time there is no prince on his way to kiss them awake again. “This moment of life here could go on for ever” remarks Frank Herfort, who photographed his project “Time In Between” in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other places in Russia. The images make a surreal, absurd impression; they raise more questions than they answer. “The storyline, these absurd constellations, develops out of the relationship between the people in the photos and the space around them,” comments the Leipzig born photographer, project. 

The seminal idea for it came to him during a stay in Russia some years ago, at a time when he was beginning to develop an interest in the aesthetic aspect of public spaces. “In Western Europe everything is so neatly defined, so specific. A waiting room is a waiting room, an office is an office. In Russia, in contrast, rooms are open to interpretation, many-layered and not so prettified.

Church of the Concilio Sancta Maria Mater Ecclesiae, by Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1965-1970) : @charlesranken

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