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Wednesday 4 July 2012

12 CAPTIVATING RAINBOW-COLOURED ARCHITECTURE


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The Very Best of Rainbow-Coloured Architecture
By Claire Cottrell,
Flavor Wire, 2 July 2012.

Seneca the Younger, the Ralph Waldo Emerson of ancient Rome, wrote one of the earliest encyclopaedias of the natural world covering fun New Age topics like meteors, halos, mock suns, lightning, and comets. Devoting an entire volume to rainbows, he offered the first known scientific observations of nature’s most charming phenomenon by explaining “that rainbows appear always opposite to the sun; they appear in water sprayed by a rower or even in the water spat by a launderer on dresses.” A man way before his time, he even speaks of rainbows “produced by small rods of glass”, anticipating Newton’s brainy experiments with prisms 1500 years later.

We here are Flavorpill love a solid rainbow coloured roundup to combat the Monday blues. Case in point, our short survey of rainbows art and our rainbow-hued film guide. From a building that lets you experience what it’s like to be inside a rainbow to the prettiest kaleidoscopic flower market in the world, click through to check out the very best of cheerful, full spectrum design.

1. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects - Aarhus, Denmark

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Image credit and more information: freshome

2. Saint-Cloud Sports Centre by KOZ Architects - Paris, France

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Image credit and more information: KOZ Architects

3. Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Shimura Branch by Emmanuelle Moureaux - Tokyo, Japan

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Image credit & more info: Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture+Design/Nacasa & Partners Inc. via designboom

4. L’école maternelle de la rue Pajol by Palatre et Leclere Architectes - Paris, France

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Image credit and more information: Palatre et Leclere Architectes

5. Arc En Ciel by Agence Bernard Bühler - Bordeaux, France

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Image credit and more information: Traces of Creation

6. The Saguaro Hotel by Peter Stamberg and Paul Aferiat Architects - Palm Springs, California, USA

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Image credit and more information: joie de vivre hotels

7. Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Tokiwadai Branch by Emmanuelle Moureaux - Tokyo, Japan

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Image credit & more information: Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design

8. Fine Arts Centre by Kell Muñoz Architects - Edcouch-Elsa, Texas, USA

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Image credit and more information: Best House Design

9. Flower Market by Willy Müller Architects - Barcelona, Spain

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Image credit and more information: Yatzer

10. Contemporary Arts Museum of Castilla y León by Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón - León, Spain

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Image credit and more information: Mansilla + Tuñón Architects

11. Manzana Perforada Social Housing by Amann-Canovas-Maruri - Madrid, Spain

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Image credit and more information: Amann-Canovas-Maruri

12. The Rainbow School by DLR Group - Los Angeles, California, USA

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Image credit and more information: Arch | dez | art



[Source: Flavor Wire. Edited. Top image added.]


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