Cycled past repurposed mills.
Category: Design
Hita Station
I can add Hita train station, northern Kyushu, Japan, to my “delighted” list. By any standards, it’s a small station. A single train track enters town, and a single track leaves town. At Hita station, the track fans out into multiple tracks, more than enough to handle the three platforms and the boarding of an… Continue reading Hita Station
World-Class Style
Posted World-class style in a small-town train station.
Athens Gasworks
Athens tourist, day 1 of 3. First port of call: Athens Gasworks. It operated 1857-1984, now preserved and repurposed.
Glass Houses and Buried Museums
The Farnsworth House A Glass House in Illinois Completed in 1951, the Farnsworth House, near Plano, Illinois, is widely regarded as one of the major architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took his belief that “less is more” almost to the limit by designing a steel-framed, glass-walled box. The box floats… Continue reading Glass Houses and Buried Museums
Glass Houses and Buried Museums
Wrote about glass houses and buried museums.
Robie House
Visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, self-described cornerstone of modern architecture. Nothing modest here.
Farnsworth House
Walked into architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s idea: the Farnsworth House, near Plano, Illinois.
Repurposed Department Store
Cycled to a business meeting with Allina Health in a repurposed Sears department store.
Chichu Museum
Art hike, day 2, including extraordinary underground Chichu Museum: removing boundaries between art and architecture.