THE LIMN

Art, Architecture, Words: A Repository

by Architectural Graduate Sophie Hamer.

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the art of welcoming

June 20, 2010 by Sophie Hamer
"architecture is fundamentally the art of welcoming, since it contributes many unexpected things. "-Borel
June 20, 2010 /Sophie Hamer
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View fullsize Louvre-Lens. July 2018. The three years since I took the train from Paris to Lens to visit this incredible space have all but dissolved. Time does that, dissipating, passing through your fingers like sand, until suddenly you can count it by the spad
View fullsize Sailors Grave, Coromandel June 2021 On the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere, it was magic to receive photos of the sunshine completely filling this cedar-lined outdoor room. The builder of this new home, a good friend of mine,
View fullsize Lac de Derborence June 2021 It is a late start to the season this year, but summer is finally here, and the mountain passes (and dead end roads) are open for exploring. Lac de Derborence surprised me in all the best ways, including finding that perh
View fullsize Lac de Moiry October 2019. Each evening when the shadows get long and the sunlight turns golden, I am surprised by how late the light stays. Spring has been all grey skies and raindrops this year - a far cry from last years month of May, when all I
View fullsize Kunsthaus Erweiterung David Chipperfield Architects A visit to an as-yet-unoccupied gallery Zurich, May 2021 Folded and fluted brass lines each threshold between rooms. In the empty building, with no things to see, the focus is on the framing ele
View fullsize Baloise Park C, Valerio Olgiati. Basel, April 2021. A tour of the perimeter, in spring The expressed edges of the floorplates reach out to become the facade, thin slices of concrete balancing on the array of pointed columns. There is something de
View fullsize Lac de Moiry, looking across to the Pointes de Mourti above the Moiry glacier beyond. We rode from Sierre, up the switchbacks of Val d’Anniviers and up the valley through Grimentz. It was mid-October and the colours were beginning to turn, re
View fullsize Overlooking one of the less familiar sides of Christ & Gantenbein’s Kunstmuseum Basel Neubau, where a tapered courtyard descends to the museum storage zones below. Basel, March 2020.
View fullsize Swiss National Museum by Christ & Gantenbein. Zürich, August 2019.
View fullsize Lago del Sambuco, October 2019. En route to Lago del Narèt at the top of the raw and immense Vallemaggia, a steep valley of stone grottos, waterfalls and mountain pastures that climbs up into the alps behind Locarno, Ticino.
 
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Jan 21, 2019
TRANSIENCE
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 21, 2019
Nov 9, 2018
How we come back
Nov 9, 2018
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Jul 11, 2018
IMPRESSIONS
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May 18, 2018
Penumbral Reflections
May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018
THE LIMN-LOUIS BARRAGAN-PORTRAIT
May 17, 2018
BARRAGAN
May 17, 2018
May 17, 2018

Sophie Hamer 2015-2020