Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales
unspoken words
“Spoken words are silver, unspoken words are gold.”
—Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, 1869; translated by Anthony Briggs, 2005. (p. 491)
Orbe
Catacumba
Arial & Helvetica
comic sans & courier
dark blue with some red
“ ’Mamma, does he really love me? What do you think? Did men love you like this? And he’s so nice, he really is nice! Though he’s not really my type—he’s a bit . . . sort of narrow, like a clock on the wall . . . Do you know what I mean? . . . Narrow, you know, all grey and pale . . .’
‘You do say some silly things,’ said the countess.
Natasha persisted. ‘Don’t you understand? Nikolay would. Now, take Bezukhov—he’s blue, dark blue with a bit of red, and his shape is square.’
‘You flirt with him, too,’ said the countess with a laugh.
‘No, I don’t. He’s a freemason. I’ve just found out. He’s a very nice man—dark blue with some red. How can I explain it?’ ”
——Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, 1869; translated by Anthony Briggs, 2005. (p. 491)
she’s a blue-stocking now
“ ‘No, she’s a blue-stocking now. She’s renounced those old affairs for good,’ he said to himself. ‘There’s never been a case of a blue-stocking having any passions of the heart,’ he kept telling himself—a general principle he had picked up somewhere and certainly believed in. But curiously enough the presence of Boris in his wife’s drawing room—and he was nearly always there—had a physical effect on Pierre.”
—Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, 1869; translated by Anthony Briggs, 2005. (pp. 478-479)
Green Dolphin Street
“Green Dolphin Street supplied the setting
The setting for nights beyond forgetting”
—Bronislaw Kaper & Ned Washington, “On Green Dolphin Street”, from the movie Green Dolphin Street, 1947.