Category: representation
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Suburban Fantasies
These visualizations of suburban patterns by Ross Racine offer “…fictive urban patterns, mostly suburbias, surrounded by a desert or agricultural looking environment.” (via Landezine) :: image via LandezineThis is definitely a compelling idea to both elucidate and satirize the ubiquitous suburban patterns, and offers some commentary about the drivers of these forms. I thought at…
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Annals of Artifice
This project made me think specifically of the MOMA rooftop garden by Ken Smith… something about artifice that seems somewhat contrived… but I guess that’s the point 🙂 Via Treehugger: “Purists sneered at this garden made out of plasticine when it was first exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show. Designed by the star of Top…
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Hoax of the Week
:: image via curbed This one was pretty good and definitely had a bunch of folks going (via urbanism.org > via curbed)… The concept: “Bulldoze under Central Park and replace it with a modern, international airport. The idea is so simple, so beautifully elegant, so inevitable that it’s hard to believe we didn’t think of…
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Radical Cartography
A very cool site that was reintroduced to me recently is Radical Cartography, one of the most interesting collections of maps out there (with the exception of maybe the wonderfully oddball collection over at Strange Maps). I had lost touch with the site, after this cool post on Agriculture maps of the US from back…
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Reinterpreting a Classic
Via Treehugger: “In 1982 Agnes Denes created one of the first examples of ecological art–she planted a wheatfield on an abandoned piece of land in downtown New York. Now, 27 years later, her work is being reinterpreted and updated, only this time in the east end of London. A derelict site has been planted with…
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The Writing on the Wall
The ability to use public art as a form of expression is quite rare. Installations are often visual or have a tacit (or expressed) ‘do not touch’ policy – creating the idea of public without the opportunity for real interation. A few installations try to break this boundary – offering a platform for expression. One…
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DailyLand: Rapid Palace
Location: Gothenburg, Swedenby Visiondivision Okay, I’m a sucker for interesting landscape graphics… and these are pretty cool. Some definitely questions about the viability of this for security and safety… but pffft… how can you argue with the graphic magical realism of these images. :: images via Arch Daily
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Do You Rule the Sewer?
I’ve been remiss in posting about the interesting WPA 2.0 competition and it’s alluring tagline: “whoever rules the sewers rules the city” as I was debating about entering because it is just amazingly compelling in idea. So alas, due to summer and time constraints (I know, lame, but I’ll explain later) I’m passing on the…
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Two if by Land, None if by Sea
Just last month, a strange site appeared in Portland, docked at Waterfront Park. The area, chain-linked off from anyone getting too close, gave a vision of a spectacle equal parts Rose Festival Fleet Week and kitschy episode of the The Love Boat, spawned from gigantism of the engineering prowess and the ego that could only…
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Interim Vacancy – Pt 2
A followup to the idea of interim use of vacant lands, the SF Chronicle surprised with expanded coverage of some ideas for these sites… and they are all pretty fun. King continues: “…a quartet of local designers see something else: a site that could become a sculpted realm of green folds spiked by artistic birdhouses…