The Portuguese “bank of materials” acts as a tile museum and a repository of free tiles for building owners. If you visit Portugal, you might notice all the blue tiles. They’re called azulejos and they’re a major part of the country’s heritage. They’re used on walls, floors, and ceilings and depict the history and culture […]
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Blue Crow Media creates a brutalist map for Canada’s second biggest city. The name Carte Montréal Béton just sounds great on its own. It is, of course, the French name for Concrete Montreal Map, the latest brutalist map from Blue Crow Media. It’s said that Montreal became a canvas for concrete architecture during the early […]
If you’re looking for a different kind of map for your journey, check out these architectural guides. Blue Crow Media are publishers in London who started out making series of food and drink city guides, before branching out to architectural maps. Their Brutalist maps are now all the rage, covering world cities such as Boston, […]
When the Barcelona Pavilion was designed in 1929 for the Barcelona International Exhibition, it wasn’t built to last. The gorgeous modernist structure with its refined glass and marble stoa was merely created for the exhibition as a temporary building and was taken down within a year. Its architect, the revered Mies van der Rose left […]