Category: representation
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Warped Perspectives
A horizonless project in Manhattan called Here & There, by Schulze & Webb that gives a roller-coaster like view of the island. These are really, really cool… nuff said. :: images via Space Invading
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VIVA: 1-10
The flip side of the VIA 10 spots is the Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment – looking at the latest and greatest in representational vegetated architecture. Lots to see here. VIVA 1: G TECTS:: image via Bustler VIVA 2: Realize Hudson Rise :: images via A Daily Dose of Architecture VIVA 3: Green Wall in Cordoba…
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Drawing Water
This great image (from BLDGBLOG) featuring a proposal from EDAW for a 2008 exhibition from the London Festival of Architecture entitled ‘If I could design London I would…‘ As pointed out on the BLDGBLOG post, the poster features some compelling retro-futuristic graphics that look at the water-based configuration of London. :: image via BLDGBLOG A…
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The Future is Now
The Wall Street Journal asked a trio of designers to imagine the ‘Green House of the Future’, with energy efficiency as a point-of-departure. This group came up with some inventive visions – although it’s telling that all of these ideas and problems could be envisioned right now with our available technology and materials. Nonetheless, the…
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Food for Thought Winners
The winners for the competition ‘Food for Thought’ sponsored by 24-7 sandwich shop have recently been announced, and it seems as if the organizers were successful in providing some provocative visions of a new culture of food. The winning entry ‘Connection Wall’ comes from Milos Milivojevic from Serbia and envisions a digital diner where virtual…
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Malcolm Wells: Infra Structures
Subtitled “Life support for the nation’s circulatory system”, the 1994 book Infra Structures by Malcolm Wells offers a chance to revisit the integration of our architecture and infrastructural systems – appropriate for our new found interest in the workings of our society and urbanity. The the juxtaposed pipe/greenery on the cover, the thrust of this…
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Meadowlicious: National Wildflower Centre
Buildings that are used to celebrate botanical phenomena seem the most appopriate to become melded into the landscape in more meaningful ways. Aside from abstracted metaphor, there is a direct link between the building and the content and context in which it is meant to reference. A recent competition and subsequent announcement of winners for…
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Veg.itecture: VIVA Conceptual 3
Veg.itecture in Visual Assessment (VIVA) continues with some amazing examples (and not to mince word, there are shitloads of them on the web). Perhaps a trend, perhaps overexposed, or perhaps we’ve finally reached the point where we’ve transcended the original and just become purveyors of the mundane. A quick snippet of the amount of blog…
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Desert Oasis
While we think of the politically charged border-wall and crossing as a confrontational experience, why can’t these international transition spaces be celebrated as points of interest and beauty. The competition for border crossing for pedestrians between Mexico and the United States in 2005 was won by the Belgian firm OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen,…
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DailyLand: June Callwood Park
Bustler recently announced the winning entry the international design competition to provide a vision for Toronto’s June Callwood Park. The competition was won by Toronto-based architecture and landscape design firm gh3 for their ethereal design that mixes forms of bands, waves and groves together in their entry for the ‘Super Real Forest’ – patterning light…