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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

les caryatides de guyancourt: a photo essay on the postmodernist complex of suburban paris

Eighteen colossal Venus de Milo replicas form Les Caryatides: two identical postmodern apartment blocks in Guyancourt that use classical sculpture as structural, theatrical elements.
fromDesign You Trust - Design Daily Since 2007
3 months ago

Gilded Disease-carriers Are the Grilles That Adorn the Facades of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Depicting Lice, Mosquitoes and So on

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine features a striking Art Deco frieze of gilded bronze animal figures sculpted into its iron balconies, each symbolizing a threat to human health. These ten animals-mostly insects and arthropods like fleas, mosquitoes, and ticks-are known for living close to humans and thriving on the food and shelter we provide. Eight of them are disease vectors, earning the nickname "gilded vectors of disease," though the cobra and bedbug are exceptions.
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fromJuxtapoz
4 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Louisa Owen "Spires" @ Fredericks & Freiser, NYC

Constructed from antique paper and the thorns of wild roses, Owen's sculptures suggest fortresses, reliquaries, and dreamlike towers. Their tapering forms strain upward, yet their surfaces are creased, stitched, and scarred, holding a quiet gravity. In Owen's hands, stability feels precarious, and foundations seem half-remembered, the scarred surfaces of her forms suggesting both skin and structure. Hidden recesses suggest stories of touch, damage, and sacred encounter.
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