et après ça, la ville

archimaps:

The Madeleine seen from the barricaded Rue Royale during the Commune de Paris in 1871, Paris

huiswerk:

Ignazio Gardella, Anti-tuberculosis dispensary

(via functionmag)

Maxfield, 8825 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood

(I’m sure I’m not the first to point it out, but it never ceases to amuse that the ZIP code for WeHo is 90069.)

(Source: designspiration.net, via euphues)

cjwho:

102-Year-Old Abandoned Ship is a Floating Forest / Image by Andy Brill

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“Raising Kayne”, Santa Monica by James Turrell with Standard

(Source: ummhello)

good:

In 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway that would stretch from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may seem like a preposterous notion now—everyone knows Angelenos don’t get out of their cars—but at the time, amidst the height of a pre-automobile worldwide cycling boom, the idea attracted the attention of some hugely powerful players. And it almost got built.

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Bike-loving white people have been trying to ruin Highland Park for more than a century I guess.

(via urbnfutr)

I love the idea of a symposium on urban context being held at the fucking Getty.

via screamsinblackandwhite

(via bbook)

Fred Herzog, Two Men in Fog