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Vintage Wooden Toy Skyscraper Architectural Building Blocks, USA ca.1930.
(via ebay - futura321)
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Breeze Blocks
The name refers to a perforated concrete wall made up of individual blocks, each pierced with the same shape, most commonly a cross or circle. Mounted together, they form a striking pattern.
Get to know one of the grooviest features of midcentury modern architecture
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Illustrations by Ellen Surrey
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Life size modular building blocks by EverBlock
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Before LEGO: ‘Practical Architecture for Young and Old, with Real Stones in Natural Colors,’ Richter’s “Anchor” Blocks, 1880
Via archive.org
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Anchor Stone Building Blocks [source]
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Floor Games by H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells, the popular science fiction writer, published this children’s book titled Floor Games in 1911. Floor Games is a milder taste of Wells’ writing; if you know H.G. Wells, you know that he wrote The War of the Worlds (1898), which became infamous 40 years after it was published when Orson Welles presented it as a radio broadcast that led to a frenzied epidemic among many listeners.
H.G. Wells wrote in many genres in addition to his well-known science fiction, ranging from textbooks to political and social commentary. Floor Games can be viewed in the Newberry’s special collections.
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A brilliant little set of architectural building blocks from Archiquest - you can get them in all different styles!