Nocturnal Geometry: The Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg

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Night at the Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida

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https://gregurbano.com/2025/12/19/night-at-the-dali-architecture-as-teacher/

One of the more unconventional places to visit in Lithuania is the Merkinė Pyramid.

The site is the brainchild of a guy named Povilas Žėkas, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Steve Jobs in a white turtleneck.

Mr Žėkas claims to have received a divine message to build a glass pyramid inside a glass geodesic dome in the middle of the Lithuanian woods. He also claims that people who meditate inside the dome can see into the future.

I was unfortunately unable to confirm the magical clairvoyant properties of the glass structure, but the acoustics are amazing.

#travel #tourism #Lithuania #Lietuva #pyramid #unusual #building #structure #geodesic #GeodesicDome

Time for a bit of ‘professional development’ reading. When did the tide (start to) turn from progressive, future-thinking agendas in American culture —specifically as reflected in architectural projects— to what in 2025 can only be described as a society gripped by nostalgia and almost completely absent of innovative, creative endeavors? Well, this book by Douglas Murphy starts to make a good argument for the 1960s and 70s. Murphy’s book takes us through the realm of World’s Fairs, Buckminster Fuller and Brutalist estate projects to shed light on a period of architectural history where Post-Modernism captured more attention in the books than these last grand projects of Modernism. Murphy does a really good job of not being exhaustive but, rather, focused on a selection of strong cases that illustrate the point: that these top-down projects were not resonating with a society where current events were undermining any confidence in the experts. The civil unrest of the late 60s knocked a few things loose, and the economics of the 70s continued to foster dissatisfaction in the citizenry. But the following couple of decades managed to be, arguably, a distraction from the continued erosion of confidence in the experts. And here we are today, where teachers, scientists, politicians have joined the architects as untrustworthy. These things really do take time to manifest profoundly in the everyday.
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#lastfutures #douglasmurphy #architecture #modernism #buckminsterfuller #brutalism #civicprojects #publichousing #worldsfair #expo #geodesicdome #distrust #postmodernism #ex_libris_jz

The greenhouse project is finally coming to an end. It still needs a door, but with the current temperatures we can do without for now. We build it with a Hubs geodesic dome kit and wood from the local supplier, treated with linseed oil. The cover was a bit of a challenge but we managed. So happy with the result and how it fits the landscape!

#greenhouse #serre #jardin #garden #geodesicdome #permaculture

Fancy a sauna?
#sauna
#geodesicdome
#Wanaka

Meeting today over in Fatima. Passed this gem. #CommunityGarden #GeodesicDome #ReubenStreet #Fatima #Dublin #Mastodaoine