#ruined city

[weirdlookindog]

"Là, sous mes yeux, apparaissait une ville détruite"

Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Ruined City

Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870

[tyiart]

Eerie, ghost-like whistling filled the air. It was the cold breeze, passing through the decayed metal remains of a traffic intersection.

full size wallpaper available in my ko-fi membership ✨

[anastasiamaru]

Mariupol

russian occupiers destroy historical center of the Mariupol

[scragglebirdart]

Background: Kaiju Bay Cityscape

The amazing and lovely @KaijuFluffs is having her soft debut today with her new model and the cityscape background I created for her! I had a great time working with her and bringing her city to life! 

[aerospiritual]

[rosesartcorner]

Hello everyone

I would like to present the best boy

Silver the Hedgehog

[lonehuna]

[helloyesamwoman]

Left For Dead

[emberarmy]

A wanderer far from his home beholds this new land after being tasked to deliver a message to someone important.

[dfl-inc]

AI image generation

[theknightoc]

[valeribevelsblog]

[malindamadaras1996blog]

[kalasser1962blog]

[spider-artdump]

A Girl in the Submerged City by yoshida_seiji.

[archimindblogger]

Architectural Ruins

What defines a ruin? 

When does a building or element of architecture become a ruin? 

A ruin does not have one singular definition, even within the field of architecture there are multiple perspectives. `Art critic, Brian Dillon sums up architectural ruin quite comprehensively by stating “ruins embody a set of temporal and historical paradoxes” - Architectural Review, Reading the Ruins 

The Cambridge Dictionary [online] states that a ruin refers to the “process or state of being spoiled or destroyed’, most importantly we will consider the latter element of this definition for the sake of this discussion. In this perspective of the definition within architecture one would commonly say that the building (e.g church) has fallen into ruin. Other perspectives of the definition of ruin are as simple as “to damage irreparably” - Merriam Webster Dictionary [online], this definition is particularly interesting when placed for the argument of when does a building become a ruin, following this perspective it would be at the point where a building is considered no longer repairable; although arguably, with modern advancement and historical understanding can any building be repaired, that is to say, restored? 

Arguably, is the point at which a building becomes a ruin the point at which a building is now considered essentially dead? Consequently of this question, it demands an answer regarding the death of a building; when truly is a building dead. In terms of anatomical architecture that is, what is the point at which a building’s heart stops beating? 

“The stains of time and building ruins are crucial eyewitnesses to demonstrate aging in architecture”. 

John Ruskin in Ruskin and the ruins: the stain of time in architecture 

To be continued…

References:

Architectural Review - https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/reading-the-ruins

Merriam Webster Dictionary - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruin

Cambridge Dictionary - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ruin Gonzalo Munoz-vera, (papers) Ruskin and the ruins: the stain of time in architecture - https://gonzalomunozvera.com/papers-Ruskin-and-the-ruins-the-stain-of-time-in-architecture#:~:text=In%20this%20regard%2C%20the%20stains,passing%20of%20time%20for%20Ruskin.