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Tracing the urban brickscape
As surprising as it may seem I feel that the true quality of a city such as London lies in its “disorderliness”. Within the city countless e…
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Corleone
The window of a restaurant in Prague where two small tables are arranged within the thickness of the wall. The alcove in which the window is…
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Palma
The window of a flower shop in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina. A wooden rain shutter is stored under the low-hanging eaves and can be folde…
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Part 3: Apertures for Walking Through
… in Denmark but also in other European countries the concept of sliding doors had yet to be invented. The Japanese fusuma which allowed one …
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Villa Le Lac
A continuous series of windows facing the water in the Villa Le Lac designed by Le Corbusier for his mother. The eleven meter long windowsil…
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Willow Tearooms
The windows of the Willow Tearooms designed in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The row of twenty-two fixed and double-swing windows ma…
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La Medusa Ristorante
The windows of a restaurant in Porto Venere. A pair of outward-opening windows sits between fixed windows of the same size on either side cr…
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Mumtaziar Preserved House
The windows of a house in Safranbolu. A built-in bench sits below the row of wooden single-hung windows. Mumtaziar Preserved House 2 Preserv…
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Suleymaniye Camii
The window of a mosque in Istanbul. The space around the window becomes an alcove into which people can enter. On the interior a wooden door…
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A Desert Below Sea Level—Turpan, Part 2
…s which was often employed in European churches in the ancient and medieval eras (A buttress is a supporting structure that sticks out from …
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Bianco
A showcase window in Napoli’s Centro Storico. Government policies regulate shops’ showcase windows along the street resulting to a certain e…
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The Origin of the Idea
…so different from that of the European houses. In Europe the window really feels like it is a barrier between us and the boundary between th…
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Turkisk House
The window of a house in Mostar Bosnia & Herzegovina. The window projects out like a terrace fitted with a wooden handrail and screen wi…
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Tugendhat House
The window of a house designed by Mies van der Rohe on the outskirts of Brno. Plants are grown in the space created by two layers of glass w…
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Spinnery Restaurant
A window in a restaurant in Bowness on Winderemere which is famous for its lakes. A bench is built-in to the semi-circular window called a b…
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Blackwell
A window in the Main Hall of a house designed by Baillie Scott in Bowness on Windermere. The bay window is built next to the fireplace compl…
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Brand & Advise Office
The windows of a design office in Lisbon’s old district of Chiado. Tall thin windows that span two floors repeat across the façade. A mezzan…
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Opening the Window and Greeting the World
…or the most known Italian and European companies. For Olivetti he has been Director of Design from 1992 to 2002 and he developed experimenta…
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Supported the Japan Pavilion, The 15th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2016
YKK AP Window Research Institute had supported the Japan Pavilion the 15th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2016…
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Part 2: The Gathered Gates and Windows
…e stained glass of Middle Age European cathedrals they are quite similar. Chinese windows and doors are decorations and they are also a medi…
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Window and Passive Design
…e elements are discarded. The European concept of the window may be well compared to such subtle ones. To the contrary Japanese window is de…
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Vol. 5: A Contrastive Linguistic Analysis of Words for “Window”—Based on Comparative Analyses of Japanese, German, English, and Italian Idioms
…e people in the warm southern European climate make extensive use of t…
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Experimenting with Windows
…when I went to places such as Europe where there are fortresses with thick walls that have had embrasures carved out of them to make spaces …