speciesbarocus:

Sandro Botticelli - The Tragedy of Lucretia (ca. 1500).

archiveofaffinities:

Henry Clay Borgner, United States Patent 18,891, Design for a Century Monument, 1889

moonzerotwo:

To Open the Sky - Peter Elson

(via fuckyeahspaceship)

a-l-ancien-regime:

“Teatro del agua” (the theater of waters)

The Belvedere, Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati , Italy.

Architecture

Cassells Encyclopaedia, c.1900, Cassell & Company Ltd.

booksnbuildings:

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invisiblestories:

Theodor de Bry’s illustration of a Native American charnel house, published in Thomas Hariot’s A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588).

psychotic-art:

The Madonna of Port Lligat 

by Salvador Dalí

(via rhaegartargaryen)

fiore-rosso:

micromegas / daniel libeskind.

(via infiniteinterior)

archimaps:

Hypothetical reconstruction elevation of the Château de la Fère-en-Tardenois, France

streetdragon:

attadesign:

ReferencePhoto

/polychroniadis:

“John Berkey is famous for doing concept design for the original Star Wars movies. When he wasn’t imagining space battles, he designed cities of the future - on Earth and in space…”

Reblogged via Stumblr

(via infiniteinterior)

speciesbarocus:

Athanasius Kircher - Phonurgia Nova (1673).

2001

Typical footing details

DEFRA and DTLR (2001) Limiting thermal bridging and air leakage: Robust construction details for dwellings and similar buildings. London. TSO.

booksnbuildings:

“Tribute to Wren,” by C.R. Cockerill (1830)

1985

Stair Detail drawn using AutoCAD 2.18

Between The Lines: All Things Autodesk and Technology

Shaan Hurley

http://www.flickr.com/photos/btl/1601784460/

zolotoivek:

Design for a Russian-themed Gas Service Station by F. Ponomareff. From the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco.

If I’m not mistaken, this was actually built and is still standing somewhere in Connecticut.

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