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# SEA /// Atlantikwall

Atlantikwall/ mur de l'Atlantique/ Atlantic wall was the german sea side protection from allied attack from 1941 to 1945.( more here )Following I'll show you some of the amazing concrete bunkers/blochaus that have been built by the german Army to protect the coast from Norway to France.Today most of this buildings are crumbling into parts, or sinking in the beach sand...-I made a special SEA thematic selection with only sinking bunkers.More here, here and hereThe best book ever about those bunkers is famous Bunker archeology of Paul Virilio.

the map of the Atlantic wall

# Concrete spicules !

Those who know me, may understand why I like so much those concrete tetrapods used for japanese reefs. Their shapes allow them to constitute an aggregate structure without any binding and easily removable and transformable.I know that a house might have been built with them but could not find it, so if anybody knows a bit more about it, I'd be interested to have these informations. Thanks.

# SMALL /// Tom DIXON Pylon serie

Here's some pictures of the work of the designer Tom DIXON. This serie of furnitures has been inspired by electric pylons, the lightness of the structure, is unusual at this scale and create an interesting contrast with daily life objects.

# Underworld: what's happening under your feet...

Those following pictures represent the Montsouris underground water tank in Pais 14th district. its the french version of the undergound cathedral.

Those pictures (and more) of the "reservoir Montsouris" are from this very nice site called Exurbis: here

# Konrad Wachsmann's structures (more)

Few more pictures of K.Wacshsmann work about structure network that show his amazing skillz to create beautiful structure jonction, I discovered that six month ago thanks to Ed Keller. Wacshsmann as bucky Fuller was comissioned by the US Air Force (plane hangar) to develop some of those structures.

# Konrad Wachsmann's Dynamic structure

Project by Konrad Wachsmann in the 50's for an universal structure system which does not use any joint.

# Crooked Spires (Clochers Tors)

Look what Marksor and Delpolo found in Rochechouart (Haute-Vienne / France) ! This church owns one of the hundred crooked spires (Clocher tors in French) in Europe. You can find a complete article on French wikipedia here. There are 66 crooked spires in France and some others in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, England and Denmark.

Saint Gall Chruch's crooked spire in Niedermoschwihr (Haut-Rhin / France)

Saint Mary Church's crooked spire in Chesterfield (Derbyshire / England)

# Serpentine Gallery's Pavilion 2008 is now open

As said in this post's title, the new Serpentine Gallery's pavilion has been inaugurated two days ago. This year, Frank Gehry with Ove Arup were appointed to design it and succeed to create a new impressing technical work. Although, I am quite desperate to observe that once more, what was created can be assimilated to an unique roof and people have been once more offered some basic benches where they can admire the genius'work... Does engineering is the only issue here ? Why do these TEMPORARY buildings have to be so frigid and neat ? When I visited Eliasson's last year pavilion I was with a guy who started to climb over the cone and who was immediatly yelled at and put back into the line of gregarious people visiting peacefully. Only MVRDV in 2004 proposed to tackle this problem but unfortunetly their pavilion was not constructed...

Here is a little reminder of past pavilions which are, I have to admit, all various and beautiful but which are also all hopelessly examples of what I was just observing.

As you might know, the Serpentine Gallery's Pavilion is appointed to an office which has never built any building in the UK.