Piel - Skin

Found this wonderful link over at MoCo Loco, and made me wish it was a little more extensive. Piel.Skin is an online publication about buildings skins and their evolution from facade to an actual skin, capable of much more than just covering up a structure and being beautiful. It also includes Google Maps links to all of the projects featured in the publication, a dream come true for us architectural tourists, I wonder if all these buildings are in MiMoA's database...

MIMOA - We needed something like this

MIMOA, or Mi Modern Architecture, is a traveling Architect's dream come true. It's a website that posts locations and photos of the modern architecture in Europe. It launched last month, and as of now it is only a European thing, but hopefully will spread to the rest of the world.

In their own words:

"It is the best source of information for your city trip in Europe with all Modern Architecture in one view. MIMOA shows Europe’s Modern Architecture on a map with the address and all additional information you need to actually find and visit interiors, parks, public places, buildings and bridges."


Projects like this Purist building in Essen, Germany, by the Japanese architects Sanaa, that they designed for the Zollverein Design School (the map above is the location for this building). It's a part of the revitalization of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2001 as proof of the "evolution and decline of an essential industry over the past 150 years."