Black Mountain, NC / September 2018
Fame on Pegasus in the Tuileries by Antoine Coysevox 1702
I took this photograph of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin thirty years ago. This roof, a two way structural steel system, weighs 1250 tons. This photograph presents one of the eight columns that support it. On top of the column and beneath the roof occurs the only curved lines in the entire structure that I know of. This is the point at which the weight of the roof transfers through to the columns and down to foundation. The element is not one piece. It is formed from two pieces one male and one female. The female piece is the one on top. The diameter through which the loads are passing is no more than 7 inches (18cm). That's an approximate surface area of 39 square inches. The bearing stresses at this point are thus 64,102 pounds per square inch, well within the proportional limit for standard structural steel. The element appears to project a dark golden light. Which is to say the element as a whole holds in equilibrium two and a half million pounds all day everyday
From the grounds of Clos Pegase winery Napa.
Grounds of the Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth
Fleet Week. Nuclear aircraft carrier shot from the deck of the Golden Gate.
A precinct inside the ancient Royal Palace, Seoul Korea, built in 1395
… of Fort Walton Beach
Roche Dinkeloo, New York City, 1967
Wandering behind Park Guell
Later, in the 1990’s, an architect from Switzerland built a brick building in front of it.
The streets of San Francisco
Frank Lloyd Wright owner built house. Berger was a public school teacher.
La Tourette
Roche/Dinkeloo
Scotts Valley, CA. 1993
Built for William Haines Hall, Kentfield CA, 1946
Built for William Haines Hall, Kentfield CA, 1946
Somewhere in the Central Valley of California
If you didn’t already know, it might come as a surprise to learn that this building is an icon of late modernist architecture in the United States.
The first project from Roche and Dinkeloo after the death of Eero Saarinen.
Winery in Napa by Michael Graves