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Bahnhof data center, Pionen, Stockholm. Picture from Deposit/Data by Yann Mingard.
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The Blue Mosque , Edirne, Turkey 
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There is nothing more pathetic than a man, which measures all up and down, trying, as the poet says, “to measure the expanse of land, the land down under”, to solve the mystery surrounding the souls of his people, but unaware that it is enough to communicate only with their inner genius and honest service to him. The latter is to save, by his passion, desperation and dissatisfaction with the affairs of gods and men. Cases venerable gods by their perfection, the affairs of men kind to us by virtue of kinship with them. But sometimes the past excite some sort of pity, when they manifest ignorance of good and evil - the ugliness is not less than the inability to distinguish between black and white.

— Marcus Aurelius (via sigurdii)
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Frederic Chaubin: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
The fourth age of Soviet architectureIn this volume photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what could be considered as the fourth age of Soviet architecture. They reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the twenties and thirties, no “school” or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Their diversity announces the end of Soviet Union.Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, the holes of the widening net, architects revisited all the chronological periods and styles, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba sanatorium), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Tbilisi wedding palace). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to its suprematist influence (Promethee). Then comes the speaking architecture widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Kiev crematorium), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Kiev institute), a political center watching you like a Big Brother (Kaliningrad House of Soviet). This puzzle of styles testifies to all the ideological dreams of the period, from the obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of privacy and it also outlines the geography of the USSR, showing how local influences made their exotic twists before bringing the country to its end.
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hoschke118:

16. Soul - 243m - Gold Coast, Australia
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