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Posts tagged with ornamentation

there are so many seams everywhere

Black and white outdoor photo of beautiful, carved, weathered ancient columns converging toward a tall, rough-surfaced, stained, cracked, and graffitied gray wall with a white plastic lawn chair and plastic bags at the bottomPhoto by Kübra Arslaner

"This was not only an aesthetic issue, cracks are where the light gets in, but also where moisture, dirt, cold air and pests get in ...": mumimor has a fantastic comment discussing the architectural history of ornamentation – practical, industrial, and societal – in the The beauty of concrete thread.

05/19/24
by taz

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