Category: representation
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Off Grid 2.0: Healing the Damaged Edge
The ideas competition Off Grid 2.0, sponsored by the California Architecture Foundation, recently announced a slate of winning entries under the theme ‘Healing the Damaged Edge’. Definitely take some time to get into the full size PDFs as these thumbnails don’t give one the full picture, and there aren’t any project statements. A range of…
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More Fake Trees
And They’re Pretty Handy if we are Attacked by Giant Interstellar Swarms of Flies: :: image via InhabitatVia Inhabitat: “A report published last Thursday from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) suggested that a forest of 100,000 artificial “trees” could be “planted” near depleted oil and gas reserves to trap carbon in a filter and…
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Digital Exhaustion
It’s seems a little time off makes one introspective, or at the very least a bit nostalgic. Did you ever feel that impossible to scratch, lingering itch in the back of your mind? You know, the one that you can’t subsume, but says we’ve devolved from a culture that celebrates the built beauty and artistry…
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EcoCity Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany’s new planned EcoCity by TecArchitecture and Arup has received a lot of attention as of late… let’s take a look::: image via WAN Wind turbines… check. Green roofs and walls… check. Water and futuristic, semi-biomorphic building forms… check. Reuse of structures… check… Multiple green rating systems… check! Looks like an eco-city… Ok, I’m…
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Reading List: Andrea Cochran: Landscapes
I’ve had the book ‘Andrea Cochran: Landscapes’ for a while now, since Princeton Architecture Press (2009) sent me a copy. I’ve paged through it numerous times, but figured I’d get around to reading it at some point, at least formally, before putting the review together. Well, for a review I have to admit that I…
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Reading List: Learning from Las Vegas
:: Logorama by H5 – image via Designboom :: (color plate from the book) It is one of those books that everyone should read at some point, so I finally got around to sitting down and busting through the entirety of my copy of Learning from Las Vegas by Venturi, Scott-Brown and Izenour. Strangely enough,…
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New York Day/Night
Another interesting map, this time showing the difference in population from daytime to nightime – showing the major exodus that happens when the workday is finished. Via People and Place > The Pop-Up City > The Urbanophile “…an interesting graphic that gives insight in the huge differences between New York’s day and night population density…
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Future Pastoral
Beautiful images via BLDGBLOG from some work by Nathan Freise that remind me of the wonderful techno-aesthetic urban imagery of LTL and Lebbeus Woods, with a bit of Andrew Wyeth thrown in for good measure. Amazing stuff. :: image via BLDGBLOGSome info: “Freise’s series of inkjet prints depict experimental architecture projects. His hybrid illustrations combine…
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Modern Industry
Cool image via People and Place > Poster Cabaret: Modern Industry by Adam Hancher: “…print is based upon communication within modern industry, and the relevance of renewable energy sources”:: image via Poster Cabaret
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DailyLand: Pier 57
This project has been around the blogs lately, and it’s an interesting meshing of site and architecture – driven by the unique opportunity of creating space atop a pier in New York City. Via Bustler, the team includes LOT-EK, with developer Young Woo & Associates The project “…foresees a rooftop park crowning a small shopping…