Sans-Serif Ampersand

Oceanário, by Pedro Campos Costa.  Lisboa 2011.

subtilitas:

Mansilla+Tuñón - MUSAC auditorium, Leon 2004. Perhaps the most celebrated of the practice’s work, winning the Mies van der Rohe award for best European building in 2007.

“In contrast to other types of museums, which focus on the exhibition of frozen historic collections, MUSAC is a living space that opens its doors to the wide-ranging manifestations of contemporary art. This is an art centre that constructs a set of chessboards on which the action becomes the protagonist of the space; a structure that develops from an open system, formed by a fabric of squares and rhombi, allowing the construction of a secret geography of memory.”

Toti Semerano - Casa de Masi, Casarano 2010.

The psychological power of unusual spaces should not be overlooked.  While the results might be unpredictable, there is certain quality of space that can change one’s state of mind and even their perception of the world. 

Tree Hotel in Sweden
http://architypereview.com/3-hotels-highlights-2010/projects/184-tree-hotel 

archimess:

Gathering the architecture community on Tumblr.

Reblog this, so that we can see who’s who.

After a week or two, I’ll post every single blog that has an architect/architecture student behind it, or any blog that has something to do with architecture.

It will be a nice promo for everyone

dressupvamp:

Sipopo Congress Center by Tabanlıoğlu Architects in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

(via dressedupvamp)

Deaf couple’s home in Tokyo has almost a hundred windows to allow them to sign to their children even when playing outside.

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Blob VB3 Mobile Office 

The “ampersand” was not listed in English dictionaries until 1837.   The character, previously known simply as “and,” was commonly recited at the end of the alphabet.  The phrase “and per se and,” which followed the letter Z, meant “and ‘and’ by itself.”  Since then, the name of the character has become a mondegreen, just an abridged version of a mindlessly recited phrase.  

An evolution of the ampersand. 
1.  Originally, the ampersand was a ligature of the letters E and T.
2-3.  Fourth century renditions of the ligature.
4-6.  Ampersand iterations from the ninth century.

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