A gradual refinement The steel rail is an artifact whose form has been carefully optimized. This gradual refinement of the design was done not by a single brilliant engineer but by more than a century of industrial evolution. The rail was never meant to be an object of beauty, but its cross section has all the elegance of fine typography. Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape elegancetypographytransportationevolutionchange
Kengo Kuma's sketches Show image 0 Show image 1 Show image 2 Show image 3 Show image 4 Show image 5 Show image 6 Show image 7 Kengo Kuma, My Life as an Architect in Tokyo Anatomical Drawings of Staircase Spaces drawing