Showing posts with label architects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architects. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 January 2013

Maggie's Centre




Maggie's is a cancer daycare centre in Dundee Scotland.
Maggie Keswick Kencks, who died of breast cancer in 1995, pioneered the setting up of several cancer caring centres in the UK. The philosophy behind Maggie's Centres is that your immediate environment affects your well-being.
Frank Gehry did a magnificient job designing this building.
During the design process Gehry built over 70 models before he finally settled for two key elements: the tower, inspired by lighthouses, and the asymmetrically folded roof, based on a shawl worn by a woman in a Vermeer portrait he had seen with Maggie, for the main body of the building.
I love it!

Friday, 27 April 2012

Great "old" design

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The hanging light L40 designed by Gerrit Rietveld between 1920-1924.


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TC 6 lamp designed by Dutch architect and industrial designer Aldo van den Nieuwelaar in 1969.

Thursday, 8 March 2012