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Yeej finally a new piece finished 🥳

Some words to wet your appetite 😲

'Black Mirrors'
'Repurposed Nylon'
'Hoi Lai Terrazzo'
'Translucent Wire'
'Two unfinished Pieces' 🙄

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Causewayside Public School: the thread about the epicentre of a very sectarian Southside scandal

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (1872-1918) have for some reason a particular fascination for me, one which is more profound where they are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about each of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but rapidly snowballed into an intention to cover each, in alphabetical order, on its own and in rather more detail, but not so much that they can’t be posted quite frequently.

The fourth chapter of our series looking at the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” investigates Causewayside School. In 1875 Edinburgh School Board purchased the house of Grange Villa at 140 Causewayside for £3,218 13s 11d with the intention of erecting a new school. This half acre plot was a parallelogram in shape on account of its northern boundary being defined by an old drainage ditch that cut diagonally relative to the main road. Prior to this, schooling in the district was conducted at a school run by the United Presbyterian Church on Duncan Street, which moved with that church to the corner of Salisbury Place in 1864.

The Board had already held a competition in 1874 to find architects for its first batch of new schools and divided the work between the most successful applicants. Causewayside was awarded to Robert Rowand Anderson, who would rise to become one of Victorian Scotland’s most notable architects. He was also awarded the work for schools at West Fountainbridge and Stockbridge and the three shared a number of design and style features (“the dimensions of the various rooms repeat to within a few inches… and the ventilating and playground arrangements are also precisely similar“) but with significant variation in the layouts to make use of three very different sites, all of which had significant constraints.

Anderson set Causewayside back from the main road and spread it across two storeys, each with a large central school room with two smaller classrooms on either side at the rear, giving a roughly cruciform footprint. There was a single large gable projecting forwards whereas at Stockbridge (below) there was one on each flank. His early work designing churches translated easily to the Collegiate Gothic style much in favour at the time for schools except now the “steeples” did not contain bells, but hid an Archimedes screw ventilator to promote good air circulation through the buildings.

The construction contract was worth £7,974 11s 0d and work commenced in late June 1875. Progress by January 1876 was reported as “slow” but by June was “well advanced“. Although it was to be completed for 1st December that year opening did not happen until 9th January 1877. The chairman of the School Board, Professor Calderwood, performed the honours and at this time already 500 of its 600 spaces had been subscribed to.

An inspection in its second year of operation reported favourably on the quality of teaching at the school:

Report of HM Inspectors on the Edinburgh Board Schools for Session 1878-79.

Causewayside School.

Mixed School. — An extremely good tone pervaded this School, and the class movements were very orderly. As regards the work of the three lower Standards, some weakness appeared in the spelling and intelligence of the third Standard, but everything else was most satisfactory. Of the upper Standards, the fourth might have done rather better in arithmetic, and the fifth in composition, while both the fifth and sixth Standards answered unequally in history and geography. On the other hand, for grammar, general intelligence, and acquaintance with their specific subjects, all three Standards deserve praise. In judging of the School, it must, of course, be remembered that the staff is strong. Needlework and music are both carefully taught.

Infants’ School. — Discipline and instruction in this Department both deserve the highest praise. It is evident that the Mistress and her Staff exercise a most beneficial influence alike in quickening the intelligence and in regulating the behaviour of their young pupils.

A subsequent inspection in February 1885 by the local Superintendent, Colonel Campbell, “complained strongly” about the drawing examination at the school; the children were using their pencils as a measuring gauge when doing freehand work and that they were placing lined pages beneath their drawing paper as a further guide. The teacher protested that this was how she had been taught to draw but the Colonel demanded that the exam be cancelled: the matter was not dropped until representations in defence from both the Headmaster and Flora Stevenson of the School Board.

In common with the first wave of schools that the Board built, Causewayside was really too small to cope with demand and already by October 1878 it was over capacity, with 638 pupils. By 1883 it was so oversubscribed that an extension for 200 further children was authorised, widening the front of the building to the same width as the rear to add additional classrooms. In 1894 a further extension was approved but by the following year there were 250 vacant spaces on account of the recent opening in the district of Sciennes School. By 1901 the school was once again reported to be suffering form overcrowding – this was still a time of urban population growth.

Located as it was between the Grange and Newington, you could be forgiven for thinking this school as being in a middle-class catchment. However, like most Board schools at this time, it drew its intake largely from the working classes and its pupils were subject to a life in the harsh social environment of Edinburgh at this time. In a court case in February 1884 Helen Dick, or Taylor, was brought before Sheriff Rutherfurd and charged with “failing to provide elementary education for her children and also with failing to secure their regular attendance at school“. She told the court that “she could not do more than she had done” for her two children – Jessie (10) and George (8) – her husband had abandoned the family 6 years prior and to support them she worked anti-social hours at a laundry. She had to leave early in the morning and was not allowed to return home to wake her children and get them ready for school, so they inevitably did not go. The Sheriff ordered that they be made to go to school at Causewayside. Another example comes from an 1896 meeting of the School Board which heard that of the 722 children at the school only 21 had baths in their homes. 71 boys and six girls reported that they went – occasionally – to the Corporation baths to wash. In 1901, it was estimated in 1901 that 15 percent of the juvenile department of the school were working after their school day to help support their families.

In 1905 the headmaster, Robert Mathewson, retired owing to ill health after 20 years in service. He was briefly replaced by James Clark, promoted from St Leonard’s Public School, who soon returned to the latter institution as its head to be replaced in turn by Thomas W. Paterson of North Canongate. Paterson had begun his career in 1879 at Causewayside and remained there until retiring in 1922 after 51 years in the profession, the pupils and parents presenting him with the gift of a typewriter for the occasion.

On October 1st 1913, pupils from Causewayside joined their compatriots from Davie Street, St Leonard’s and South Bridge in a spontaneous protest march through the district, a rumour having spread through the streets that they were to begin attending school on Saturday Mornings.

Evening schooling began at Causewayside only a month after it opened, when the Edinburgh School of Cookery was allowed by the School Board to run courses here which were open to the general public. This became known as Continuation Schooling; continuation of education for those who had left school (at 14) but had not qualified for a Higher Grade school (or could not afford to go to one). Causewayside became the principal such school for young women and girls in the city, offering both basic academic subjects and practical classes focussing on employable skills – cookery, millinery, laundrywork, dressmaking and needlework. While these classes were not free, in 1915 a term cost 5 shillings, an excellent attendance record could result in the fees being reimbursed. Completion of these classes could qualify women for the Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, where employers provided bursaries. In 1915, 177 pupils earned the return of their fees and forty qualified for the School of Cookery. Headmaster Paterson of Causewayside wrote to the editor of the Scotsman in 1917 that continuation classes were “to the better equipment for life’s battle for those children who leave school at 14 years of age without passing the qualifying examination.”

An almighty brouhaha erupted at Causewayside in 1925 when the Education Authority announced plans to close the school, transfer its pupils to other nearby schools, and re-open it as a Roman Catholic school. The background is complex but stemmed from the fact that R. C. schooling in Scotland was not transferred from that church to the state until 1918 at which point the newly formed Education Authorities inherited a rather poor portfolio of school premises. Few, if any, of these had been purpose-built and almost none were really fit for purpose; St. Columba’s R. C. School, which served the Southside, was teaching 291 children (with a waiting list of 27) in a totally inadequate converted town house at 81 Newington Road. Causewayside’s school roll had slumped after WW1 due to urban depopulation and with only 321 children at less than half its capacity. The authority’s bean-counters were convinced that Sciennes, Preston Street and Bristo schools could comfortably accommodate Causewayside as they too had falling rolls and that nobody would have a problem with making the most economical use of their buildings.

How wrong they were! Edinburgh, in case you didn’t know, was a hot-bed of radical, anti-Catholic political Protestantism in the first half of the 20th century and the nascent Scottish Protestant League, led by the rabble-rouser Alexander Ratcliffe, went all in on trying to use the school proposal as a wedge issue in their efforts to repeal the provisions of the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 that saw the state obliged to provide non-secular R. C. schooling. You can read the full details of the vitriolic campaign that they orchestrated to oppose this change in the thread about the Sciennes School Strike of 1925. Suffice to say, the Education Authority was unmoved by the accusations it was handing over a “Protestant school to the Roman Catholics” and “putting Rome on the Rates” in “the city of Knox“. It maintained its position that it had a legal obligation to meet and that its only other option was to build a new school in its entirety – which would add even further to the tax burden of the local rates! And so it was that Causewayside School closed at the end of the 1923-24 term and re-opened after the summer holidays as St Columba’s R. C. School.

The Continuation School was unaffected by all this, a matter quietly and conveniently overlooked by those claiming the school was being “given” to the Catholic Church! The Scottish Protestant League were still publicly and vocally agitating against St Columba’s, well into 1925 – until the focus of their ire was drawn to the opening of a Carmelite Convent in Merchiston in September.

As St. Columba’s the school also became a Supplementary School, i.e. for children over the elementary age of 11 and below the leave age of 14 and who were not in High School education; what we might now call a Secondary School. It took children from other R. C. primaries in the city; St Mary’s on York Lane, St Patrick’s on St John’s Hill, St Ann’s in the Cowgate, St Peter’s in Morningside and St Ignatius’ at Tollcross, adding 300 students and 9 teachers to the school. This brought the school to over 600 pupils, but the effects of depopulation soon began to take their toll and by 1938 it had dropped to 409. There were only 190 children in the elementary department and so the following year it was closed, the pupils displaced to those other R. C. schools, and the girls’ supplementary department transferred to St Thomas of Aquin’s at Lauriston. St Columba’s was to be converted and expanded into a dedicated junior secondary school for boys aged 12 to 14 and the Education Committee authorised expenditure for this scheme. This coincided with the outbreak of WW2 and so no work ever took place. Evacuation caused a further drop in the remaining school roll, part of the school was requisitioned by the Auxiliary Fire Service and the remainder suffered from a lack of coal which caused the heating to stop working, pipes and toilets to freeze and then flooding when they thawed. In February 1940 the authorities called it quits and the remaining 150 boys were sent to other schools and it was closed permanently.

This was not the end for the building though and it was given a new lease of life by converting it into an emergency cooking centre, the work undertaken by John Kelly & Son (Kitchen Engineers) Ltd of Rose Street. What became “the largest kitchen in Edinburgh“, capable of cooking 10,000 meals at a time, was intended to help feed the populace in the event of a catastrophic air raid. Fortunately it was never required for this purpose and so was transferred to the Education Committee in 1942 as a central kitchen for producing school meals. Together with the existing centre at the former West Fountainbridge School, together they could produce 9,000 two course lunches daily, sufficient for every child in the city who wanted one. Its official opening took place on Friday 11th September, when Thomas Johnston MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, made a speech imploring the nation to double its consumption of home-grown oatmeal and potatoes. He also announced that school cookery classes would now focus on these ingredients and local and national schools competitions for their use.

Closure of the Causewayside centre was proposed in 1952, both as an economy measure and also reflecting the fact that most schools now had their own kitchen facilities. Newspaper adverts from 1955 record the disposal of its cooking equipment to the highest bidders.

After this it lay vacant for a decade until in 1965 the newly formed Scottish Certificate of Education Examination Board (SCEEB) acquired and demolished it as a location for its new headquarters. A modern, three storey, brutalist office block by Alan Reiach & Eric Hall was built in its place, the only notable feature of an otherwise unremarkable building being an abstract concrete panel over the entrance by Charles Anderson. This includes the crest of the Board and their motto In Trutina Ponentur Eadem which, according to the Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, translates from Latin as “These Matters are to be Weighed in the Balance“. The SCEEB moved in during 1967 but lasted less than a decade, moving in 1975 to Dalkeith on account of needing more space. They were replaced in turn by the Scottish Law Commission but their coat of arms remained, the motto perhaps equally appropriate for both institutions.

No trace of the old school now remains and as of the time of writing (February 2026) the redevelopment in turn has been empty for a number of years and a full planning application for its demolition and replacement has been submitted to the Council. A previous plan for the site in 2023 was asked to consider the re-use of the sculptured panel but I the current developer has offered it as a gift to the Scottish Qualifications Authority – SQA, the spiritual successor of the SCEEB at Dalkeith. Thank you to Peter Gillett for this update on their future. The SQA of course now needs to follow through in accepting the gift and having it removed and appropriately relocated…

The previous chapter of this series looked at Castlehill School. The next chapter examines the Davie Street Schools.

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Cromwell Tower, Barbican Estate, London, 2025

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Heatwave at the Barbican Estate, 2025

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'fILTR' a brutalist concrete coffee filter holder. In the pictures the holder holds a pack of 100 number 2 coffee filters. It should be able to hold larger size filters, the larger filters will stick out more of the holder.
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'Trio number One' a Concrete & Steel table lamp. Only three made. 🤖

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‘RiG’ a one of concrete and stainless steel light sculpture.

RiG's surfaces have been sanded down to reveal specs of river sand and crushed clam shells used as an aggregate in the concrete

Dimensions and weight:
Width: 21.7 cm / 8 ½ Inches
Depth: 13.5 cm / 5 ¼ Inches
Height: 11 cm / 4 ¼ Inches
Weight: +/- 1.7 Kg / 3.7 lbs

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Brutalist concrete coffee filter holder.

Dimensions and weight:
Width: 15.5 cm / 6 1/8 Inches
Depth: 6.8 cm / 2 5/8 Inches
Height: 8 cm / 3 1/8 Inches
Weight: +/- 0.49 Kg / 1.1 lbs

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UTS B&W

A couple of Black and White Stills shots from UTS Sydney. Taken with the Nikon Z f in Monochrome Mode.

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The Royal London Hospital and Ledbury Estate

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This piece has been sanded and even in some areas been polished.
Its concrete should be cured and dried by now.
So time to add some shine and bling.
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Brutalism Friday

“Maritime Terminal”, Zahka Hadid, Salerno, Italy.

Zaha Hadid’s work is characterized by fluidity, dynamism and unconventional forms. Hadid's buildings were often described as "neo-futuristic" and challenged traditional conceptions of what architecture should look like.

Commissioned in 2000, the Maritime Terminal in Salerno, Italy is inspired by the movement of water and waves, which is fitting for a terminal that serves as a gateway to the sea. The exterior of the terminal is characterized by its sinuous curves and fluid lines, which gives the building a sense of movement and dynamism. The white concrete exterior is punctuated by large windows that offer panoramic views of the sea and the city.

The main hall of the terminal is a large, bright open space and the ceiling is supported by a series of slender columns that give the space a sense of lightness.

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“Miniatures”, Frank Kunert

Model maker and photographer Frank Kunert explores the "absurdity of life" through his meticulous architectural models with a twist.
The German artist's handmade miniatures recreate seemingly normal scenes that, upon further inspection, reveal a surreal scenario.

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Pigeon brutaliste
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“Basilica Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tears” Sculpted by ANPAR

The Basilica Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tears envisioned by ANPAR architects is the largest pilgrimage church in Sicily. Like a frozen drop of water, the structure commemorates the 1953 miraculous tearing of a plaster effigy representing the Virgin Mary. The construction began in 1966 and took 28 years to fruition, and excavations revealed a VI century settlement on the site.

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“Palace of Assembly”, Chandigarh, India | Le Corbusier, 1962.

In 1947, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was commissioned by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to design a new legislative assembly building for Punjab. It was requested that the structure would be “unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbol of the nation’s faith in the future.”

The structure of the hall resembles a box, with a portico on one side and concrete piers on the other. As a decoration, the façade bears a repetitive pattern. The roof was inspired by the structure of industrial power stations and cooling towers. To emphasise the entrance, Le Corbusier created an off-centre ceremonial pivoting door. Inside, there is a circular assembly chamber for gatherings. The Palace of Assembly was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.

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“Gas Stations”

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“Monument to the Resistance”, by Paolo Castelli (1967-1968), Macerata, Italy [Pic: Roberto Conte (2021)]

Located in central Italy, this 1960s monument commemorates the local resistance movement that fought against Nazism and Fascism during World War two.

Built in the same year of the Apollo 11 mission on the Moon, the monument connects the craters of the war fields of the past with the lunar crater of the future. The design implies the meaning of a changing era of humanity, from bomb craters to lunar craters, from the era of fighting for peace to the era of developing science, from past history to future projections.

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“Villa Gontero”, Cumiana, Italy. Carlo Graffi, Sergio Musmeci (1971)

The client, Riccardo Gontero, is a Turin entrepreneur, owner of the company Impresa Cementi Armati, a company that specializes in reenforced concrete . Relatively forgotten in the last couple of decades, ‘Villa Gontero’ has been carefully renovated in recent times.

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“St. Klemenz Church”, Bettlach, Switzerland

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“The Monitor Building at Beckton Sewage Treatment Works”

It wasn’t until the Great Stink of 1858 – a period of a few months in which hot weather made the stench of human waste and effluent in the Thames unbearable – that the government decided to work on a permanent and adequate underground sewerage system. In 1864, Joseph Bazalgette drew up a plan to construct a total of 1,182 miles of mains and street sewers to divert wastewater to the outskirts of London.

The Monitor Building at Beckton STW was commissioned in 1967 and designed by architects at the Public Health Engineering Department. The most striking aspect of its design are the four legs which support its raised structure, giving it the appearance of a large concrete quadruped walking across the works.

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“Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie” Fehling+Gogel, Berlin, 1966–74

Great importance was placed on the quality of the exposed concrete of the building shell. In order to obtain soft curves and a fine surface structure, attention was paid to particularly precise execution of the board formwork. This resulted in a consistent exposed concrete building that is unique in Berlin in such careful execution. The design responds to the neighborhood by gradually increasing the building masses and creating a five-story office and laboratory block with the front facing the old village center.

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“Johannes XXIII Church”, Heinz Buchmann and Josef Rikus, 1968, Cologne

The Johannes XXIII church inspires mixed feelings as ugly structure or masterpiece. While the exterior construction is dominated by concrete, the interior is much more complex, with coloured glass windows dipping the church in warm light. A rare example of unusual Catholic architecture, this is well worth a visit.

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“Maunsell Army Forts”, Guy Maunsell, Thames Estuary, 1942

Part of the Thames Estuary defense network, the anti-aircraft defense consisted of a cluster of seven stilted buildings surrounding a central command tower. Operational, catwalks connected the buildings. They were built on land and then transported to their watery homes. Originally there were three of these forts, but only two are left standing: the Redsands Fort and the Shivering Sands Fort.

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“Wotruba Church”, Mayer, Vienna Fritz Wotruba/Fritz Gerhard Mayr, 1964

An iconic brutalist design, created from 152 concrete blocks whose weight ranges from 1.8 to 141 tons. The idea of a church was first conceived by Fritz Wotruba in 1964 and the location was chosen separately, a relevant point as the current site was formerly home to Nazi barracks.

Wotruba, a sculptor attributed his inspiration for the church on his visit to Chartres Cathedral in France.  The architect, Mayr, worked with Fritz Wotruba to bring his extraordinary sculptural brutalist design to life, creating a space that is equally a sacred space and a living sculptural tribute to Wotruba, who died before the project was completed.

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“Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP)”. One of San Paulo’s major architectural landmarks and one of the main attractions on Paulista Avenue due to its pyramid shape. The building is 325 feet high and is one of the largest buildings on the Avenue. The building was built by Rino Levi's architectural firm in 1979. In 1998, and redesigned by the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to include the construction of a cultural center on the ground floor.

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“Lycée Sainte Marie”, designed by Georges Adilon in La Verpillière, France, is an educational building built by raw materials such as concrete, wood, glass, and metal. The windows are designed especially to be unique to emphasize students’ uniqueness.

📸 Stefano Perego, Roberto Conte

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“North Christian Church” Eero Saarinen, 1959, Columbia, Indiana.

Saarinen was inspired by the steep steps at Angkor Wat and Borobudur and traditions that make a visitor interact with the architecture and gives a sense of magnanimity while entering the church. The odyssey from the exterior to interior is organically augmented to give worshippers a spiritual experience.
The use of earthy materials, grey slate floors, dark mahogany pews to the spirited formal geometries, the architecture strives to create a pious ambiance that is intimate and subliminal. The decompression of the chamber, grey slate floors, dark mahogany pews, and eerie natural lighting induce a sense of awe in the visitor.

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“Ventilation Shaft of the Arlberg Road Tunnel (1974-78) in Arlberg, Austria. Photo by Victor S. Brigola.

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“St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church”, designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard in 1964, about the same time Breuer designed the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Breuer's design for Saint Frances de Sales Church, along with his designs for another Catholic church in Collegeville, Minnesota, around the same time, revolutionized religious architecture. Located in Muskegon, Michigan

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“Brutalist Bus Stops”

Photographer Christopher Herwig spent 12 years, covering over 18,000 miles by car, bike, bus and taxi to find these Brutalist Communist relics.

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“Guesthouse of the Armenian Writers’ Union”, Gevorg Kochar and Mikael Mazmanyan, Sevan, Armenia, 1969

The Guesthouse is a model of early Soviet avant-garde ideals, utilizing abstract forms to represent social utopianism, creating a functional, progressive and egalitarian space that exemplified the ideals of the revolution.

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“Reading Pavilion”, Herzog & de Meuron, Jinhua Architecture Park, Jinhua, China, 2006

The geometric pattern is more than a mere veil. It was given depth to project into space and be converted into space in its own right. Projected from all sides of a cube, the pattern is a virtual spatial grid, being an infinite number of lines and points of intersection inside the geometric body.

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“The Bank of Georgia headquarters”, Architects George Chakhava and Zurab Jalaghania, 1975, Tbilisi, Georgia. Designed by the Ministry of Highway Construction of the Georgian SSR.

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“National Museum of Qatar” Jean Nouvel, French

The exterior consists of 539 disks, with 76,000 patterned cladding elements throughout; the interiors twist and turn, with the ceiling rising and dipping, constantly keeping visitors surprised through the eleven linked galleries.

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Various brutalist stairways and balconies.

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“Metropolis”, Fritz Lang's miniature movie set for "Metropolis" (1927) - in the German Cinema Museum, Berlin.

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Former "Iwanowo" cinema in Łódź, Poland. Later it became a music club, nowadays abandoned and devastated.

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