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mrskokushibo · 6 months

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Warnings: Explicit sexual content, mention of BDSM. Strictly 18+. MDNI. SMUT. NSFW.

A/N: This little drabble is inspired by the Upper Moon Car H/Cs by @flametrashira , fic discussions with my dear @koku-shibou , and the character of Bruce Wayne from The Dark Knight.

MASTERLIST

Billionaire Kokushibo who meets you at an art gallery opening party. After your eyes meet, he can’t take them off you and neither can you take yours off him. The instant attraction draws you both to work the room toward each other while politely mingling with the other attendees.

Billionaire Kokushibo who finally gets close to you at the bar and chats you up with a polite ‘Would you like a drink?’ From then on it is just you and him, moving from small talk to flirting as the evening continues.

Billionaire Kokushibo who convinces you to leave early and go for drinks at his place. Your inhibitions are as blown away because despite wanting to take it slow and be a good girl, waiting with one-on-one time until the second date, your pussy has already determined the outcome of the evening for you. Yes, you are wet. Very wet. Because who are you fooling here, he is beyond ridiculously hot.

Billionaire Kokushibo who leads you outside of the venue and lends you his suit jacket while you wait for the concierge to bring his car. He has chivalry engrained in him and would never let a lady freeze. When the car arrives, you almost squirt. It is your favourite black Bugatti W16 Mistral. He opens the door for you and lets you in and then quickly walks around the sexy vehicle and jumps into the driver’s seat.

Billionaire Kokushibo who revs the engine a little extra just to show off. He drives fast and smooth, you can tell he has advanced racing skills. He doesn’t speak much while he drives, doesn’t touch you, or makes any indecent comments, but you can see in the corner of your eye that he has a small fleeting smile on his lips every time he casts a quick glance your way.

Billionaire Kokushibo who arrives at his modernist mansion in the most expensive part of town and gets welcomed by his butler. They exchange a few words and the butler takes care of the car while Kokushibo leads you into the house and into the minimalistic but luxurious living space with a view of the city. Politely, he directs you to the comfortable lounge sofa and asks about your drink preferences. He gets the drinks and sits down opposite of you in an armchair.

Billionaire Kokushibo who, after getting your next drink, sits down next to you and initiates a kiss. He is a great kisser and smells intoxicating of purple lilies and white musk. His hands caress you just enough to make shivers run down your spine in arousal and your pussy throb beyond control.

Billionaire Kokushibo who undresses you slowly as if he was unwrapping an expensive Ming vase that he just purchased from an auction at Christie’s. He kisses you down your neckline and goes straight for your breasts. While kissing you he is taking off his crispy white shirt that was already slightly unbuttoned showing off a glimpse of his trimmed, perfectly toned chest.

Billionaire Kokushibo who now unbuckles his belt and the two of you finalise your mutual undressing. He stops for a moment to have a good look at you and you can’t help but drool internally at the sight of the magnificent muscular apparition that is Kokushibo. His perfect cock draws most of your attention as it is large and girthy and leaks everywhere.

Billionaire Kokushibo who takes you on the sofa. He is gentle at first, making you come only by using his mouth, but once he enters you, his pace increases in speed and intensity. The elegant space is filled with lewd sounds of skin slapping skin and the loud squelching of your wet pussy being pounded relentlessly by this utterly hot male. Soon enough he is cumming inside you eliciting a deep, quiet growl to accompany his release.

Billionaire Kokushibo who leads you to his bedroom where you spend the rest of the night fucking each other’s brains out until you are both covered with sweat and cum, needing to shower several times in-between sex. You fuck in the shower, too, by the way.

Billionaire Kokushibo who is very embarrassed in the morning as he needs to ask his butler to change his bedding. The two of you made an indescribable mess. And this will not be the last time that happens.

Billionaire Kokushibo who buys you a penthouse in the city so that you can walk to your work as a store manager. He lets you design the place but takes the initiative to have your bedroom soundproofed so that the two of you can be as loud as you want to be. He also orders to have a sex room and adjacent specialised wardrobe built for you two, where you can store all the sexy lingerie you already own and will purchase, as well as sex toys and other gear.

Billionaire Kokushibo who is into BDSM and the sex room is made purposely for that. Both of you are switches so that the games you play are hot. To say the least. You love being tied up in Shibari and used like a slut when it is his turn to be the Dom. He goes hard as steel when you gently put the collar around his neck when it is your turn to be the Dom. He leaks all over and squeals when you peg him.

Billionaire Kokushibo who buys you lavish gifts and orders catering from Michelin-star restaurants when you decide to stay in for a longer sex sesh. He knows the value of a good woman and will spoil you beyond belief. He buys you a matching Bugatti W16 Mistral so that you can think of him when you need to go for a drive to visit your friends.

Billionaire Kokushibo who asks you to marry him when on a holiday in Paris. He books the Eifel Tower just for you two and proposes on top of it. Afterward, you go out for a lavish dinner and spend the rest of the night fucking at the Suite Imperiale of the famous Hotel Ritz and indulging in the most expensive champagne the hotel has to offer. Yes, you don't just drink it, you bathe in the champagne as well, and, of course, have sex in the bath.

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homomenhommes · 1 month

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … March 27

1878 – Henry Davis Sleeper (d.1934) was an American antiquarian, collector, and interior decorator best known for Beauport, his Gloucester, Massachusetts, country home that is "one of the most widely published houses of the twentieth century."

Henry Davis Sleeper was born in Boston. He was grandson of Jacob Sleeper, one of the founders of Boston University as well as a clothier and manager of a real estate trust.

Henry's education appears to have been by private tutors due to ill health as a child, and it is unclear as to whether he was ever formally educated.

Sleeper was introduced to the Eastern Point in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1906 by the Harvard economist A. Piatt Andrew, who later served in the U.S. House of Representatives, who had built a handsome summer mansion, Red Roof, on a rock ledge above the harbor.

Sleeper was much taken by the location and immediately decided to build a little further along the ledge from Red Roof. He purchased the land on Eastern Point in Gloucester on August 13, 1907.In the fall of 1907, construction of Beauport, Sleeper's relatively modestly scaled Arts and Crafts-style house, began and was sufficiently finished to receive A. Piatt Andrew as a house guest in May 1908. As property flanking Sleeper's became available, Beauport was expanded several times until 1925, often in response to events or important experiences in his life.

In 1918, Sleeper became the U.S. Representative of, and a major fundraiser for, the American Field Service, an ambulance corps founded by A. Piatt Andrew early in World War I. While Andrew served in the battle zones, Sleeper crisscrossed the Atlantic with supplies and funds, and worked closely with the French military. France awarded him the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor.

Sleeper had never married and left no direct descendants. His relationship with Andrew, also a lifelong bachelor, was intense, and may have been a sexual one as well.

Sleeper died in Massachusetts General Hospital of leukemia on September 22, 1934, and is buried in his family's plot in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Andrew wrote the memorial tribute published in the Gloucester Daily Times.

Beauport House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003. In 2008, due to new information on Sleeper's life emerging, the decision was made to acknowledge his homosexuality in tour guides of Beauport, "not to define Sleeper but to contextualize him."

Portrait of de Maistre by Jean Shepeard

1894 – Roy de Maistre CBE (d.1968) was an Australian artist of international fame. He is famous in Australian art for his early experimentation in "colour-music", and is recognized as the first Australian artist to use pure abstractionism. His later works were painted in a figurative style generally influenced by Cubism. His 'Stations of the Cross' series hangs in Westminster Cathedral and works of his are hung in the Tate Gallery, London and in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He was very close friends with the Australian writer Patrick White.

From his family's very prominent position in Australian society, he helped to make modern art fashionable in Sydney in the late 1920s, or at least as fashionable as it could be., but the anti-modernist criticism he received following his first one-man exhibition in Sydney convinced him that his art could not flourish in Australia.

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In March 1930 he left Australia to live permanently in London. He held one-man shows at the Beaux-Arts Gallery, London (1930); in the studio of his colleague Francis Bacon (1930); at Bernheim Jeune, Paris (1932); Mayor Gallery, London (1934); and at Calmann Gallery, London (1938).

In 1936 de Maistre met the 18 years younger novelist Patrick White. The two men never became lovers, but firm friends. In Patrick White's own words "He became what I most needed, an intellectual and aesthetic mentor". They had many similarities. They were both homosexual; they both felt like outsiders in their own families (for example de Maistre's family disapproved of his painting and described it as 'horrible'); as a result they both had ambivalent feelings about their families and backgrounds, yet both maintained close and life-long links with their families, particularly their mothers. They also both appreciated the benefits of social standing and connections; and Christian symbolism and biblical themes are common in both artists' work.

de Maistre's portrait of Patrick White

Patrick White dedicated his first novel Happy Valley (1939) to de Maistre, and acknowledged de Maistre's influence on his writing. He even went to St Jean de Luz during the writing of the novel under encouragement from de Maistre. In 1947 de Maistre's painting Figure in a Garden (The Aunt) was used as the cover for the first edition of Patrick White's The Aunt's Story. Patrick White also bought many of de Maistre's paintings for himself. In 1974 Patrick White gave all his paintings by de Maistre to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

In 1940 de Maistre started work for the French Section, Joint War Organization of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John, London. In 1942 he was posted to Foreign Relations Department, British Red Cross Society. During this time de Maistre scarcely painted. After World War II, however, he had become an artist of the establishment. He had no trouble selling his paintings, and continuing to accept private commissions for society portraits. He died in 1968 in London.

Denton Welch: Self-portrait

1915 – Maurice Denton Welch was an English writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions.(d.1948)

Welch was born in Shanghai and spent his childhood in China — he recorded this in his fictionalised autobiography of his early years, Maiden Voyage (1935). With the help and patronage of Edith Sitwell and John Lehmann this became a small but lasting success and made his reputation. It was followed by the novel In Youth is Pleasure (1943), a study of adolescence, and by Brave and Cruel (1949). An unfinished autobiographical novel A Voice through a Cloud was published posthumously in 1950.

Welch did not set out to be a writer. He originally studied art in London with the intention of becoming a painter. At the age of 20, he was hit by a car while cycling in Surrey and suffered a fractured spine. Although he was not paralysed, he suffered severe pain and complications, including spinal tuberculosis that ultimately led to his early death.

He met his companion, Eric Oliver, in November 1943 while he was convalescing. Oliver was a farm-worker living in Maidstone, and was a regular visitor. He acted as nurse for Welch, then his secretary, and finally as his literary executor when Welch died at the age of 33.

His literary work, intense and introverted, includes insightful portraits of his friends. He continued occasionally to paint; there is a fine self-portrait (in the National Portrait Gallery), and some line illustrations in the first editions of his books.

What is clear from Welch's writing is that his chief limitation is also his chief virtue: his focus on himself. For his time and place, Welch's novels are surprisingly suffused with homosexuality. His examination of the people around him, very thinly disguised in the novels, and his exploration of his own homosexual feelings and responses to the world show Welch to be a writer of consequence, if an over-looked one.

William S Burroughs cited Denton Welch as the writer who most influenced his own work, and dedicated his novel The Place of Dead Roads to Welch.

It may be that his most lasting work will be his posthumously published Journals, in which he is frank about his homosexuality.

1943 – The Netherlands: A group of resistance activists led by Willem Arondeus, a gay man, dress as German soldiers, infiltrate the citizen registration building, and destroy it, hindering the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. The attack inspires similar ones throughout The Netherlands. Arondeus was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. Arondeus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. He was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards".

1963 – Dave Koz is an American smooth jazz saxophonist.

Dave Koz was born in Encino, California to Jewish parents. Although he is Jewish, Koz plays both Christmas and occasional Hanukkah songs at his concerts. He attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California performing on saxophone as a member of the school jazz band. He later graduated from UCLA with a degree in mass communications in 1986, and only weeks after his graduation, decided to make a go of becoming a professional musician.

Within weeks of that decision, he was recruited as a member of Bobby Caldwell's tour. For the rest of the 1980s, Koz served as a session musician in several bands, and toured with Jeff Lorber. Koz was a member of Richard Marx's band and toured with Marx throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. He also played in the house band of CBS' short-lived The Pat Sajak Show, with Tom Scott as bandleader.In 1990, Koz decided to pursue a solo career, and began recording for Capitol Records. His albums there include Lucky Man, The Dance, and Saxophonic. Saxophonic was nominated for both a Grammy Award and an NAACP Image Award. In 1994, Koz began hosting a syndicated radio program, The Dave Koz Radio Show (formerly Personal Notes), featuring the latest music and interviews with who's who in the genre. Dave co-hosted The Dave Koz Morning Show on 94.7 The Wave, a smooth jazz station in Los Angeles for six years. He decided to leave the show in January 2007 and was replaced by Brian McKnight. In 2002, Koz started a record label, Rendezvous Entertainment, with Frank Cody and Hyman Katz.

In an April 2004 interview with The Advocate, Koz came out publicly as gay.

Blake McIver Ewing - Then and Now

1985 – Blake McIver Ewing also known as Blake McIver and Blake Ewing, is an American singer-songwriter, actor, model and pianist. He was known for playing Michelle's friend, Derek, on the sitcom Full House. Ewing also portrayed the role of Waldo in the 1994 feature film version of The Little Rascals, and voiced Eugene on Hey Arnold! during its 5th season. He is currently one of the hosts of the Bravo series The People's Couch.Ewing co-wrote and performed the song "Along the River", the end credit song for the film End of the Spear. He has contributed his work to the It Gets Better Project, citing his own experiences as a gay teenager as his motivation. His debut album, The Time Manipulator, was released in May 2014. Throughout 2013 Ewing worked as a go-go dancer in Los Angeles. "The tips were good. In fact, I raised so much money, I was able to finish my record — mission accomplished."

Ewing was nominated for an Ovation Award for his role as "The Little Boy" in the Los Angeles production of Ragtime. He is a graduate of UCLA.

Blake released his equality anthem "This Is Who We Are" on July 14, 2015 and works as a host for AfterBuzz TV.

Blake Mciver Ewing has apparently done a lot of growing up over the years and is now a living his life as a proud gay man. He is also a regular fixture on "The People's Couch," providing witty commentary about television shows and viral clips alongside openly gay entertainer Scott Nevins.

"When I was 14 I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better," the actor noted in a YouTube description of him performing a poignant anti-bullying song. "But that being said, I believe we must raise awareness to protect the LGBT teens who are still being physically and verbally assaulted and fear for their lives every day. We also have a responsibility to end this suicide epidemic."

2009 – Japan acknowledges its nationals same-sex marriages to foreigners from countries or states where same-sex marriages are legal.

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dwreader · 9 months

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interior design insp/references dubai edition

Just like with Louis's wardrobe in Dubai I feel like there's a lot of misconception about the design of the penthouse and what it's meant to represent. First of all, dark modern was and still is super popular design style amongst the wealthy!! It's a very popular way to style large open spaces (like a penthouse apartment). Light and airy designs are usually intended to reflect more natural light to make your rooms look bigger but when you already have a MASSIVE space that's kind of unnecessary. Also it doesn't need to be said that these are vampires so enhancing natural light with bright wall colors/furniture is utterly irrelevant and quite frankly counterproductive to them. You would rarely see a very dark design in a tiny apartment though, that's why its popular mainly among the super wealthy in their mega penthouses or modernist mansions.

Black furniture also screams lux because it's a PAIN in the ass to maintain like lint, dust, grime, etc gets everywhere constantly so by purchasing black furniture you're pretty much announcing to your guests that you have a maid who cleans for you cause your rich ass sure as hell isn't dusting that shit every day.

While the overall aesthetic of Dubai I would say is highly modern, there are interesting touches that suggest a couple that has collected items through time. In the first screenshot, you see Daniel and Louis sitting in the ultra modern living space while Armand is off to the side at his very mid-century chair, a very early hint that he's maybe from a different time.

Looking at this shot, you can see as many as 4 different design styles in a single frame. The table is clearly ornate traditional, the chair (which looks like rattan or bamboo) is more mid-century/boho and the japanese garden, and finally a little pink modern organic henri dejeant lamp. It's such a perfect representation of how long Loumand have been alive and together cause its normal for couples to accumulate different pieces over the course of their lives together and try to fit them in even though they don't exactly match the current designs. But this is what happens when you've been together for 75 years!

It's also interesting to see how the design choices of the penthouse evolved because an earlier visualization had a green mario bellini couch instead of a dark grey/black. The bellini couch was a 70's design that made a huge comeback in the last couple years, which is like the WHOLE 2nd interview like someone from the 70s who has entered the picture again after a long absence. However, I bet they probably pulled back on the bellini couch cause it was becoming overdone although it is still mega expensive (comes in at around $20k) but it's kind of become one of those ughh not that shit again kind of item.

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #i stg im not rich i just like interior decor #im just trying to serve everyone plates of corn

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zebee-nyx · 5 months

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CalmWriMo Day 19

[11/19/2023]

Update!

Had me a fairly nice day. (^.^) Fought off my anxiety long enough to brave the outside world to see a play at the local theater. So woot for that! (>v<) Aside from that, made my little progress on the prologue by getting that last odd ball paragraph in. Which was then immediately followed by being absolutely consumed by my worldbuilding obsession to yeet out the blurb below. ('^.^)

Progress:

2 Hour Writing Goal: ✅

Blurb: [see below]

Self Care:

Food: ✅

Hydration: ✅

Sleep: ✅

Reading: ✅

Blurb: The Uppercity

The "Uppercity" is Neocago's gleaming bastion of opulence. This part of the city is full of luxury apartments, beachfront properties, parks, exclusive clubs, and to some degree exclusive mansions. The parts of the city within this region are strictly controlled, planned, and maintained by NEX. The uppercity can be further divided between the massive central commercial district along the coast of Lake Michigan and the northern part of the city that is mostly made up of residential suburbs.

The primary commercial district, known as the "Loop" [a name inherited directly form Chicago before it became Neocago, might consider changing the name of this tho…], is defined by it's towering high-rise skyscrapers and countless blooming businesses. The Loop is also home to all of the NEX Conglomerate members' headquarters. At night the city lights up like it were day around this gem. Various restaurants and an endless diversity of stores fill the street level spaces. A common sight is bright LED screens in any prime viewable location on building sides that advertise pricey products, the newest augs, upcoming events, high fashion, the hottest locations, as well as the regularly scheduled reminders that NEX made all this luxury possible.

Above some streets there are elevated tracks for sleek maglev trains that speedily ferry travelers to and from the city's core, feeding in from the northern half of the city and some stations in the midcity. Further above those there are skybridges that stretch gaps between some skyscrapers. Typically between those skyscrapers owned by the same corporation or with the expectation that the people living in one will be working in the other. Built primarily as shortcut walkways between buildings these skybridges often double as fancy restaurants or clubs with impressive views over the city. Aside from these two neat features much of the space about the streets is simply free open air. While the excessive light pollution makes seeing stars an impossibility, this is one of the few parts of the city where the moon and sky is readily visible.

In the northern most parts of the city there are neat suburbs with wide open artificial lawns around modernistic homes. Different communities are usually gated off form the outside city to provide a level of exclusivity as well as privacy and security. Frequently anything the residents here could wish for is ordered and delivered directly to their door in abundance. Naturally, only the most wealthy can even dream to afford one of these properties. Unsurprisingly the population density of this part of the city is strikingly low, only somewhat inflated by inhouse indent servants [more on indents some other time ('^.^)]. It is lonely at the top after all!

One of the most distinctive features of the uppercity overall is just how clean it is. Any trash that happens to make it to the street is typically swiftly retrieved and disposed of by a massive workforce of NEX owned androids. These androids, who typically wear distinctive one piece blue and white uniforms, patrol the streets automatically performing any cleaning, maintenance, and repair services in the city commons. Behind closed doors, these androids are the eyes and ears of NEX within the uppercity. There is seldom a thing that can happen here beyond the conglomerate's notice... should they apply the right filters to actually find it within the mountains of data that is.

While not a common sight out in the streets, the services of security firms are typically a mere minute away with quick response teams at the ready to protect their clients. In the uppercity they often use vtol aircraft to hastily maneuver through the open space between buildings to provide the fastest response times possible. This has made any sort of violent crime within the uppercity a death sentence as almost everyone here is either covered with a security policy or is in a stone's throw of someone who is.

Unlike in undercity much of the uppercity's utility infrastructure is run underground, seamlessly supplying power and water to the tall skyscrapers and mansions alike. The majority of the city's ridiculous power draw is feed by somewhat distant nuclear reactors.

While everything in the uppercity speaks to wealth and luxury, nothing compares to the handful of parks. These indoor parks simulate the outdoors with an artificial day-night cycle. Each park is themed in it's own unique way, but all have a couple shared traits that are seldom found anywhere on the world; plants and animals. Parks have carefully curated and beautify maintained gardens with real plants. One cannot find fresher air than within an uppercity park. While the plants are often at least mostly natural, the animals often are far from it. The animals in these parks are heavily bio-tailored to amplify exotic features as well as making them absolutely domestic and passive. As a result of their exclusive "naturalness" these parks have become hotspots for those who can afford the entry fee to simply hang around, meet up, meditate, enjoy picnics, hunt to a limited degree, or whatever else happens to strike one's fancy.

[YEET! (^v^) Gahhhhhhh! I really feel that needlessly detailed and expansive worldbuilding is where I shine brightest! Seriously, could do this for hours and write so much more on this, but need to cut it off here. That or risk absolutely drowning the world in text lol. (>v<) Anyways and always, hope you had a lovely day, peace (^v^)v]

#writeblr #writing #worldbuilding #writing community #cyberpunk #digitally dead #calmwrimo #nanowrimo

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breha · 1 year

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i'm playing the floor is lava in the gray modernist living room at the vampire mansion

#vampire posting #louis should have another kid so they can have one of those truly evil minimalist beige nurseries

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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Architects tend to think if it’s popular, there’s something wrong.

- Quinlan Terry

To those in the architecture industry, Quinlan Terry is a divisive figure. While the philosopher Roger Scruton hails Quinlan Terry as ‘our greatest living architect’, the architectural critic Gavin Stamp brands Terry ‘pedantic and unimaginative… a victim of that perennial curse of English Architecture: Palladianism.’ But there is no question that Quinlan Terry’s mission and clarion call to design buildings that last and are easy on the eye have caught the popular imagination. Terry’s work has been seminal in the revival of classical architecture since the 1960s, a grassroots revolution led by a couple of mavericks at their drawing boards.

As a scholar, he was expected to bow at the drawing boards of the likes of Le Corbusier. He worked on placement for modernist behemoth Jim Stirling (of No 1 Poultry fame) and rubbed shoulders in class with Richard Rogers. And yet his sketchbooks were full of details of country churches, symmetrical façades, and the monuments of classical Western architecture. He was told that if he didn’t design a modernist scheme, he would fail his finals. He swallowed a bitter pill of compliance.

‘I prepared a design of an ugly asymmetrical high building in steel and glass, which wasn’t difficult,’ he recalls, ‘and my tutors were delighted. They thought they had a convert.’

Terry spent a year working for a modern architect, during which he created some of his least recognisable buildings: steel and glass office blocks in Victoria Street. ‘I became deeply depressed at the thought of making this beautiful world uglier,’ he says, and considered giving up all together.

But then he met Raymond Erith, who at the time was almost the last surviving classical architect. Erith was responsible for the rebuilding of 10, 11, and 12 Downing Street, and some college buildings in Oxford, and he was a Royal Academician, but he was also a pariah in the architectural world. Terry says Erith was ‘a lone voice in the wilderness’ because he shirked the egomaniacal, modernist dogma of the day in favour of buildings that looked like they had always been there. Erith wrote to Macmillan in 1955 of his Downing Street scheme: ‘I do not intend to leave my mark on Downing Street, but I shall carry on as best I can in the way the neighbouring buildings were built.’

Erith took Terry on in 1962. ‘That was my apprenticeship,’ he says. ‘He had four daughters and no son, and I think he looked on me as a son. He really taught me.’ When there was a lull, Erith encouraged Terry to go to Rome for four months on a scholarship. This was a time when, sleuth-like in a five-piece tweed suit, Terry clambered over the pediments and architraves of the Pantheon taking measurements.

Erith died in 1973, and Terry took on the office. There was little work and he had three young children and a dog to cater for. A few small projects kept him going, including an enormous Doric column for Lord McAlpine, supported on a pedestal bearing a Latin inscription that translates as: ‘This monument was built at great expense with funds which — sooner or later — would have been taken away by tax collectors.’

Terry’s fortunes improved in 1984, with a commissioned for Richmond Riverside. Scruton wrote of the scheme that ‘this harmonious collection of classical buildings, rising on a knoll above the Thames, illustrates Terry’s principles; to use an architectural language that puts a building into relation with its neighbours and with the passer-by.’

The jobs kept coming - from Brentwood Cathedral to Royal Hospital Chelsea and private mansions in Dallas, Terry took the classical revival head-on. He became known as Prince Charles’s favourite architect for his work at Poundbury, among other projects. He was awarded a CBE.

#terry #quinlan terry #quote #architect #archictecture #design #city #urban #living space #classical architecture #britain #society #culture

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thegamecollection · 7 months

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"HAUS!"

No, we're not playing Bingo (we do that on Tuesday nights). Instead we're celebrating the confirmation of Dead Island 2's first story expansion that arrives on 2nd November!

Whether you've only just got the blood out of your clothes from your last trip to HELL-A, or if you're still up to your neck in zombie muck, this is an invitation you'll both want to consider and avoid... Pfft. Who are we kidding! We love parties. Especially ones thrown by a billionaire's secret techno death cult in a 60’s era modernist mansion over on Malibu.

"My advice is simple. If you receive an invitation to Haus – however curious you are, whatever promises are made – do NOT go."

-Yoni Kaplan, freelance reporter.

We know better than to listen to the news, right?

The expansion will come to all released formats of the game and will add a new location, at least three weapons, and eight skill cards to mix and match when you party crash!

We know you slayers want the gory details on those handy new munitions, and we're only too happy to oblige:

K-ROSSBOW: Crafted for precision and lethality, unleash devastating long-range firepower and explode zombified brains with ease.

Hog Roaster: The ultimate ticket to visceral slaying. Why only butcher a zombie when you can BBQ them at the same time?

Dead Islands: To take the weight off your shoulders whilst you smash undead enemies into oblivion.

Keep an eye on your mail, TGCollectors... The HAUS of fun may just have you on its guest-list!

You can grab Dead Island 2 on PS5 with us right here at The Game Collection!

-Jack

#dead island 2 #deep silver #tgc #thegamecollection #gaming news #haus #plaion #gamers of tumblr #video games #news #gaming #ps5 #xbox series x

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oreganosbaby · 1 year

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roman needs to be bluebearded in matsson's modernist mansion that's also probably a smart house.

#dalia writes #succ sesh

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raynerwilde-kjrp · 10 months

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Previous anon here, please do not spare me I'm very interested

ooc:

Sorry this took me a while to get to, anon. I was answering asks at midnight last night so you can imagine how dead I was today.

Since Rayner and I have the same program there are quite a few quotes and lyrics that I associate with him as a character. Since you asked, and opened Pandora's Box, here are my top ten quotes that inspire Rayner Wilde:

(I'm only going ten only because I have to limit myself or this answer will go on FOREVER.)

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth," from Oscar Wilde.

"She burned the image into her mind, burned in the relief that flooded through her veins and tasted like sweetness on her tongue," from Chloe Gong's These Violent Delights.

"Light and happy are the frce / No fair mansion hails me lord," from Joanna Baillie's Rayner

“There is consequently another aspect of the inhuman as it is invoked by the modernist canon, namely the function and structure of the imagination as expressed in art," from Rosi Braidotti's The Posthuman

"Me? I don't have you to mind / I have my heart to take care of / if heart is what it if, if heavy is its leaf weight / and one afternoon in that assizes it felt enormous with its own metaphor" from Dionne Brand's poem "Nomenclature for the Time Being" from the collection Nomenclature-> I HIGHLY recommend this if you like poetry.

"How long do souls linger by the side of their bodies? Do they really flutter away like some kind of bird? Is that what trembles the edges of the candle flame?" from Han Kang's Human Acts

"A layer, then another, then the eye, present and overall ignored. / It is a moment, a choice, then it is gone. / Onwards and onwards, / Or rather, backwards and backwards. / Or rather, simply standing still." From Oana Avasilichioaei's Eight Track-> Another I highly recommend

"So what am I now? Wise enough to be weak? Or strong enough to be foolish?" from Greg Egan's Diaspora.

"I wonder why you will never see a white swan landing on the swamp?" From Alexis Wright's The Swan Book

"[O]ur manufactured freak show" from Alice Major's "Welcome to the Anthropocene" in Welcome to the Anthropocene.

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Only a handful female architects pioneers worked together in their times with later to be world-famous male modernist architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Gerrit Rietveld

Only a handful female architects pioneers worked together in their times with later to be world-famous male modernist architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Gerrit Rietveld. A unique partnership history that is never before noted nor appreciated nor seen as a phenomenon, but resulted in established iconic 20thcentury design. Those above mentioned male designer pioneers worked together with female artists long before it became a common practice as it is today. They were appreciating the input of the woman artists architects before anyone else could see the progressive early adaptor mindset of these copartnerships, and they did so before anyone else. Yet another progressive and ahead of time characteristic that defines those early modernists even more today. They did allow female architects to play their part in modern history, next to their side, before anyone else did. Thereby creating a source of novelty and uniqueness so characteristic for authenticity.

The list with female architects worldwide gets longer every year. The at the time advanced education system in UK and USA, Canada and the Netherlands laid the foundation for many female architects to come into existence in those few countries first. Nowadays the woman architects are working from Iraq, Uganda and Turkey… Some of these woman architects started already as true pioneers in the medieval times, building castle towers and mansions that still stand today! Also these pioneer ladies paved the ways for future female engineers to follow these world heritage contributors in their footsteps on the road to a wholesome architecture worldwide.

In the early days of architecture, design and building was a male domain only. The few women architect working in those times were not really a curiosity nor novelty, they were already admired in selected elites for their work and buildings they created. Of course these girls had to shine a bit more than their male colleagues equivalents to only compensate their lagged behind status start. Some of these ladies were so effective at ‘compensating’ they ended up really famous in their own right. Of course architecture can be seen as an ancient profession, just look at the pyramids. So it’s one of the oldest profession of mankind, but it is only the very last hundred years that architecture by woman architects on this big scale came to be a part of our today’s modern world. And since we live in a digital world, recently this new millennium is the time that appreciates their living artists while still alive and although these first female architects were admired, unfortunately a lot of the work of some of these pioneers is not well documented and even completely lost and destroyed due to the disrespect and the ignorance, the male chauvinism, and lack of appreciation. Like even today the Architect universities do not include the female contribution in their Curriculum. Let’s learn and get to know ourselves better by looking at ourselves in the tubular mirror reflections of the chrome designed modernist 20th century co designed tube chairs.

Now is the time apparently to shine a lit candle on this hardly unopened tomb. Let's shove the closing stone with full force to try to open this female and male mystery architecture tombstone box. Peak through the opening and see what we can find who else is lying in there. …

Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham 14 February 1632 27 July 1705 UK.

Claim to fame: Weston Park St Andrew's Church, Weston-under-Lizard, Belton House in Lincolnshire, de Windsor Guildhall in Berkshire en Up park House in Sussex. and four hundred more buildings!

An insane and very productive career, especially for those times to position yourself first in the male dominated seventeenth century to build all those huge mansions. Since her work was not well documented it was her architectural handwriting that made experts conclude that more and more buildings were ascribed and credited to her only later. Even Buckingham Palace en Clive den House in Buckingham shire show her typical watermark trademark design specifics.

After the great city fire in London in 1666 she redesigned eighteen of the fiftytwo churches... Since she was working in the seventeenth century it was impossible for her to be seen as a lady architect on the construction sites at the time of building. As a result she is not nearly granted and appreciate ted and recognized for her pioneer work unfortunately. But working from the bureau only was an advantage to her: A very productive life as a building, designing and constructing master.

Marion Mahony Griffin 1871 – 1961 USA

Claim to fame: Adolph Mueller House, Illinois David Amberg Residence, Michigan.

She is for sure one of the great female US architects. No less than graduating at prestigious MIT at that time in 1894 already she cooperated a year with maybe the most famous architects of all: Frank Lloyd Wright. She was a drawer and glass in lead designer. During their co-partnership she designed furniture, light armature, murals and wall decorations for a great amount of the Frank Lloyd Wright heritage. Her beautiful aquarels of the Frank Lloyd Wright design plans are only later accredited to her. Later after she refused an offer by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Europe, she did co-work later with his successor though..

In 1911 Marion Mahony Griffin moved together with her new husband to Australia after winning a designer contest award for Canberra city. She worked as an architect for that city for twenty years. Later the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne was designed and build by her bureau and team. In 1936, they moved to India. The Lucknow University library is designed there by them. Her autobiography was written about her work and life, leaving a heritage of architecture.

Lilly Reich 1885 1947

Claim to fame: The world-famous Barcelona chair and the Barcelona Pavilion

Another co partnership was formed with female architect Lilly Reich and famous architect Mies van der Rohe Lilly Reich was in her time a modernist architect and collaborator with Mies van der Rohe.

The world-famous Barcelona chair and the Barcelona Pavilion are both co-designed by Lilly Reich and Mies van der Rohe together. Next to that another architecture landmark is the Villa Tugendthat. Another partnership between Lilly Reich and her husband Mies van der Rohe. They worked together for more than ten years on several projects. Yet another result of their partnership together next to the Barcelona chair was the other well-known BNRO chair, an icon of 1930 20th-century design. In short a very intriguing and fascinating result comparable to the impact that only few female designers like Coco Chanel amongst others had on modern iconic design culture.

Famous for her Co designing Furniture with Mies Van Der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion Villa Tugendthat .

Julia Morgan 1872-1952

Claim to fame: Hearst Castle

Julia Morgan was the chief architect behind Hearst Castle, collaborating on its construction for 28 years with William Randolph Hearst. Another unique collaboration due to the nature of the collab: the length and the again female pioneer architect working in close partnership shaping one of the most iconic designs of our modern times: Hearst Castle. To build this together with billionaire and media tycoon Hirst, being visited 750.000 times per year today, makes this collaboration one of a kind in the world and yet another example of pioneer men not afraid to work with female talents that are at those times unheard-of and ahead of times. To build only this Hears Castle would have been a super accomplishment for any of us living creatures, but she built seven hundred more buildings, making her the most productive (female) architect of the twentieth century. Julia Morgan Projects: More than 700 buildings in California Hearst Castle California Women Shelter buildings YMCA buildings Berkeley City Club Chapel of the Chimes

Vera Schrader 1926 1983

Claim to fame: Design Rietveld Furniture

She studied Architecture and design at the Kunstnijverheid school in Amsterdam, now known as the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. After her studying with Gerrit Rietveld as a student she started after finishing the architect academy to collaborate with him and co designed several pieces of furniture. And later founded her own architect bureau Vera Schrader and Partners. Gerrit Rietveld later in his own right as a very progressive and ahead of time modernist architect and designer became world-famous after his death for his partnership of ‘De Stijl’ (The Style). A modernist and minimalist art collective together with yet another world-famous Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan. Known for his black lines combined with primary colour squared paintings. Those lines and primary colors were also a trademark water brand of Gerrit Rietveld as is noticeable in his Red and Blue Chair. One of the first 3D expression of the De Stijl art movement. Now part of UNESCO World Heritage. One table designed by Vera Schrader at the time working with Gerrit Rietveld amongst other collaborated design is now known to be sold as a prototype at one hundred and fifty year old warehouse De Bijenkorf in Amsterdam. At that time licensing and selling original Gerrit Rietveld furniture. Since it was approved by Rietveld as an official Rietveld furniture piece and designed by Vera Schrader Catz the furniture is now assigned and accredited to Vera Schrader. Co-designer of Gerrit Rietveld. Vera Schrader Projects: Casimir Lyceum Amstelveen, Bibliotheek Arnhem, De Stijl minimalist Houseboat ‘Pardoes’, Furniture Design together with Gerrit Rietveld, Schrader house Amstelveen, Solar house San Diego.

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