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Re: The Architecture Thread - 04-26-2007, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Luwalira View Post
I like the soap bar compartment by the sink. Hmmm lots of visible concrete, must have been constructed during the late 60 or during the 70s right?
It is a recent building Hassan. But you are not wrong with your perceptions ....it definately has a 60s/70s Brutalist aspect to it. This kind of Retro-Modernism has been a popular trend for about a decade now. In the mid 1990s there was a big revival of interest in mid-Twentieth Century architecture and design. Fashion designer Tom Ford (former Gucci designer) was a big influence on the 1990s fashion for mid-twentieth century Modern architecture and interior design -- Wallpaper* magazine also played a big part in this. It seemed you couldn't walk 10 metres in the 1990s without bumping into a Charles Eames or Arne Jacobsen chair. Even the music videos were full of white interiors with Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chairs (probably the most famous chair of the 20th century and although it was designed in 1929 it became particularly popular in the 1950s).

Mies van der Rohe's famous chair originally designed for the German Pavillon at the Barcelona World Exhibition in 1929.
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