Forms Archive
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Forms Archive
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Objects, spaces and visual culture worth remembering.
Sumali Haziran 2025
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@TypeThrow666 @KeithStalker2 Fair point. The material may need to be separated from its late-century applications before it can be fully appreciated again and even though some styles have a habit of outliving the eras they're most associated with, I don't see this happening soon either.
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@formsarchive @KeithStalker2 At this point they're so tied to the 1980's that we would have to move into a period of unironic appreciation of that decade in architecture and design spaces and unfortunately I think we're a good ways off from that
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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@gordofobo Estamos reuniendo una cantidad preocupante de aficionados al vitroblock en este post.
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me flipan tanto estos cristales tan poco traslúcidos
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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@addthattomylist It's surprising they fell so far out of favor given how effectively they balance light and privacy.
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can we renormalize this
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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Love glass bricks so much omg
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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@formsarchive Chicagoans really are spoiled. Brick and curved glass is sorta everywhere.
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@la__japo La tentación es real. Siguen resolviendo muy bien problemas que la arquitectura contemporánea sigue teniendo.
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Últimamente con unas ganas de poner vitroblocks en algún proyecto
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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como que forgotten yo pienso en ellas todos los días
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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@dennyburt8 A perfect pairing easy to imagine. Mid-century interiors often shared the same optimism about materials and modern living.
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@formsarchive They look great with the Marcel Breuer Isokon bentwood table. They were the prototype for the chrome dinette, ubiquitous in 50s households. Ours was yellow.
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One of the most recognizable silhouettes in furniture design.
Cesca Chair
Marcel Breuer, 1928.
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@allowedposting Every few years they seem to inch closer to a comeback.
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@formsarchive I still think glass bricks should make a comeback they looked really cool
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@elie_foube16925 Couldn't agree more. Half the reason it still feels contemporary is that so much of contemporary design is still catching up to Rams.
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A portable music system from 1959. It still feels contemporary.
Braun TP 1
Designed by Dieter Rams, 1959.
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Bold, graphic and unapologetically joyful.
The Girard Group
Designed by Alexander Girard, 1967.
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@KeithStalker2 Yes! The 80s definitely gave them a second life, still waiting for their next revival.
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@formsarchive Popular during the 1980's and early 90's as well
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teenage engineering and apple would be nothing without dieter
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A portable music system from 1959. It still feels contemporary. Braun TP 1 Designed by Dieter Rams, 1959.
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hopper mentioned
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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@SpliffSpiegel The temptation to ask where is almost unbearable.
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I know a secret town where these can be found all over the place….
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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@KeystoneLite716 That one is actually a restaurant in Chicago that is now closed, but I'm certainly going to look for that building.
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@formsarchive is that first one pittsburgh opera company?
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@stibi_shimi The line between architectural ambition and public-sector pragmatism was often surprisingly thin!
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when the urban core still got the distressed public health clinic from 1971 >>>>>>>>
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A forgotten architectural obsession, curved glass brick facades.
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@CRXSSF4DE Their reception looks beautiful! Curved glass brick has a way of making even ordinary spaces feel unexpectedly cinematic. I'm sure we can find some uses for it!
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@formsarchive there's a company near me that still does them to this day and if i had literally any use for it, it would honestly be so tempting to install
their office reception entryway is like this and it's pretty cute
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