Category: art
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The Deconstructed City
Amazing new maps from an L+U favorite, Strange Maps, featuring ‘A Taxonomy of City Maps: “Imagined cities built from the fragments of real ones: something similar is happening in Tout bien rangé, a cartography-based artwork by French artist Armelle Caron. It consists of a series of map pairs, one a blind, but recognisably real city…
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More Hidden Rivers – NYC
An interesting post from Urban Omnibus from earlier in January entitled ‘Grey vs. Green: Daylighting the Saw Mill River‘ is less intriguing in design concept that in larger idea of envisioning the expression of the variety of waterways that are hidden/buried/forgotten within our urban areas. As referenced by Eric Sanderson through his work on the…
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Architect’s Brother
Stunning work by artists Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison worth checking out (link via the always great Landezine). Not a whole lot of descriptions around to place these – so just soak them in – more at the artists website. Happy New Year! :: images via Landezine
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Black Friday
Let’s make the shopping experience a bit more dangerous… Asphalt Spot in Tokamashi, Japan by R&Sie(n). :: images via Space Invading
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The Wilderness Downtown
I have in the past alluded to the ‘Soundtrack of Spaces‘ linking music to our physical environment. I know most people have amused themselves with this video experiment, but I finally found myself engaging with the Arcade Fire’s interactive video ‘The Wilderness Downtown‘ – perhaps a literal interpretation of the space/music connection. The narrative film,…
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Reading List: The Exposed City – Mapping the Urban Invisibles
If you love maps, not as just as visual artifacts but as part of design and planning methodology, Nadia Amoroso’s recently published ‘The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles‘ (Routledge, 2010) will validate, comfort, and quite possibly amaze you. That’s the effect it had on me – after quickly devouring this visually rich resource –…
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A Perfect Perch
Atop the rooftop chaise lounge at the Sattler Winery in Tadten, Austria by Architects Collective (spotted via Arch Daily) :: image via Arch Daily
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Elizabeth Caruthers Park
One on the more recent additions to the park inventory in Portland is the neighborhood park for the South Waterfront Area. (see here and here for more on SoWa). The park is named Elizabeth Caruthers Park (after one of the pioneering founders of Portland – on whose original land claim the park now lies) this…
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Disaster Imagery
The Gulf oil spill – documented by Photographer Edward Burtynsky, best known for his fabulous work ‘Manufactured Landscapes‘… capturing the essence of the breadth of disaster and human-wrought destruction. (via Treehugger, more images on the exhibit at the Metivier Gallery). :: image via Treehugger
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Portland Photographic Record – Places
A completely different scale from the concentrated landmarks – and perhaps the antidote to the over-documented – comes from the great Portland Grid Project a photographic essay of the city using a loose framework of grid points in which photographers are unleashed to document the ‘other’ places in the community. The plan, photographers are directed…