Today Glen Small's Abu Dhabi Trilogy Cont., Part 2-
In his highly anticipated blogpost, our anti hero and most talented Glen Small shows what he can do with his hands in the desert sand. This is essential Glen: ABU DHABI FROM OREGON (PART 2 OF 3)
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- Today Venice #11: 'Hylozoic Ground'
- The Canadian Pavilion offers an immersive, interactive installation, an exploration in responsive architecture, a breathing, intricate lattice of living web of tens of thousands of digital sensors, in Philip Beesley's 'Hylozoic Ground.'
The project stems from the concept of Hylozoism, the ancient philosophical belief that all matter contains life. A geotextile meshwork weave of digital components, feathers and whiskers, the artificial forest breathes and reacts as a living organism, giving a he... (more)
- Today detroit recon
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some photos from detroit's infamous derelict manufacturing areas.
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- Yesterday Fall 2010 Architecture School Lecture Posters!
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It's that time of the year again! For the third year in a row Archinect is soliciting submissions for architecture school lecture posters. See 2008 posters / 2009 posters
Please send school lecture series posters to archinect@gmail.com. If possible, please send the original digital file in PDF format, or some other high resolution format. Please note that we are only currently exhibiting posters representing lecture series at architecture/design schools for the Fall 2010 semester/term, but y... (more)
- Yesterday Featured Jobs Today: in New York, Greenwich CT, Boston, Rwanda & Liberia
- Leeser Architecture seeking Project Designer/Architect & Project Manager/Architect in New York, NY
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- Yesterday Wolfram|Alpha ~ Online Unit-Aware Calculator
- Need to divide 125.36 meters by 4' 6 3/4"? This fantastic online utility does it, without conversions on your end, with results in a variety of formats and conversions. God send
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- Yesterday Stefano Boeri runs for Mayor of Milan
- Boeri, Italian architect and editor-in-chief of Abitare, has announced his plan to run for mayor of Milan.
He speaks of 'networking the energy, "a campaign which will be" great laboratory of listening, the need to "renew the ruling class to change air at Palazzo Marino. - translated article from Corriere della Sera
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- Yesterday Competition registration deadlines approaching...
- September 03
SHIFTboston Moon Capital Competition
September 07
DESIGN 21 Call for Entries: “Crafting Excellence” - A Competition in Support of Artisans
September 08
Building Fashion - Richard Chai Design Challenge
September 13
Whitehaven Central Harbour Site Competition
10 Andreu World International Design Competition
The HuB Design Competition
September 15
Olympic Museum in Athens
Ballet West Fluid Adagio
POST FACT: Visualizing Information [a curated exhibi... (more)
- Yesterday Architects out of Ariel
- From Haaretz.
“The time has come for those planning the red-roofed facts on the ground to refuse to design any more buildings in the settlements.”
Decolonizing Architecture, Abitare 504.
Eyal Weizman, lecture at Urbania, January 2009, video.... (more)
- Yesterday Best Before
- abitare 505
by Anniina Koivu
Did you know that light can be generated from blood, sea algae, soil and, in a pinch, hamster cells? No? Well, then, you must not be a graduate of one of the many International "conceptual" design academies. If you were, you'd know that it's the most unexpected ingredients that are currently de rigueur for the making of design. It might be curiosity -- a yearning for the new -- or simply boredom with the established. But an increasing number of designers have begun ... (more)
- Yesterday A Town Is Razed In Israel
- Malkit Shoshan, Architect, FAST, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The cleansing of the Negev, in the south of Israel, started around 1948 and still going on.
Below are links to an article and a short film describing a recently destroyed Beduin town and a link to a webpage that explains the larger context and the planning mechanisms behind this destruction.
Links:
The article
A Town Is Razed In Israel by Andrew Sullivan, the Daily Dish
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/201... (more)
- Yesterday Six good reasons to visit the Dutch Pavillon
- 1. It follows rightly the topic “People meet in architecture”, proposing the reuse of vacant buildings as meeting places for the Dutch creative workers.
2. It treats an important topic of today, focusing on the creative class subject.
3. It grounds itself on a deep mapping work, having analysed in detail hundreds of abandoned buildings on the whole Dutch country.
4. It proposes a wise and feasible solution, hoping the reuse of vacant building as a fertile places for the cultural and ... (more)
- Yesterday GRANDI E PICCOLE
- The Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, which keeps photographic works from the 50’s until today, decided to show some of them in this exhibition. The photos are reunited in 17 couples, following an analogy of topic but with the difference of the size (one is big, the other is small).
In the exhibition, the protagonists are: David Bailey, Marina Ballo Charmet, Gabriele Basilico, Olivo Barbieri, Maurizio Buscarino, Mario Cattaneo, Arnaud Claass, Mario Cresci, Paola De Pietri, Paola Di Bello,... (more)
- Yesterday Nights Film Festival 2010
- Don't miss this opportunity to get your short films seen.
A panel of judges will select the successful films to be screened as part of Two Short Nights Film Festival 2010, 21ST – 22ND OCT 2010.
Films can be any genre but must be suitable for a general audience and have a running time of no longer than 10 minutes. All screened films will have the opportunity to win the Two Short Nights Audience Award.
Info: www.exeterphoenixdigital.org.uk/twoshortnights10/index.php
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- Yesterday Tempelhof
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- Yesterday The native home of Thonet brothers becomes showroom
- The historical building of the 1889, that was the native home of the three brothers Claus, Peter and Philipp Thonet, becomes showroom where visitors can see the classical and more recent pieces of furniture of Thonet, both in curved wood and steel tubes.
The two floor house is really near to the Thonet factory and it offers a wide view of the production of the firm.
While the renovation of the building was made by the architect Ulf Moeller, Peter Thonet had chosen personally the pieces of furnit... (more)
- The Emery Walker House: 7 Hammersmith Terrace
- Thu 8th April 2010 - Sat 25th September 2010. Location: 7 Hammersmith Terrace, W6 9TJ Organised by: Emery Walker Trust. No 7 Hammersmith Terrace is a tall terraced house on the River Thames at Hammersmith in west London. Its sober Georgian exterior hides a secret the decoration and furnishings preserved as they were in the lifetime of the printer Emery Walker (1851-1933), a great friend and mentor to William...... (more)
- The Oikos Project
- Thu 26th August 2010 - Sat 9th October 2010. Location: Southwark, SE1 Organised by: The Architecture Foundation, Red Room. Oikos (pronounced ee-kos) is the root word of economy and ecology. Embracing these principles, The Red Room theatre company and The Architecture Foundation have embarked on an exciting theatre project: a unique mix of public-made art, architecture and performance that explores how a new sustainable...... (more)
- Urban Africa - A Photographic Journey by David Adjaye
- Wed 31st March 2010 - Sun 5th September 2010. Location: Design Museum, Shad Thames, SE1 2YD Organised by: Design Museum. Adjaye, the principal of Adjaye Associates, has documented the growth of key cities in Africa for the 2010 exhibition at the Design Museum, Urban Africa A photographic journey by David Adjaye.
The exhibition, which opens in March, is part of the architects ongoing project to study new...... (more)
- Constructing Realities
- Tue 27th July 2010 - Fri 1st October 2010, 9:00am. Location: Arup Phase 2 gallery, Arup, 8 Fitzroy Sreet, W1T 4BJ Organised by: Bartlett Architecture School and Arup. An exhibition of research work by postgraduate students from the Bartlett School of Architecture/ UCL.
Facebook: Arup, Phase 2...... (more)
- Ernesto Neto
- Sat 19th June 2010 - Sun 5th September 2010, 10:00am. Location: Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 Organised by: Southbank Centre. The immersive, sensory installations of Ernesto Neto transform the upper spaces of the Hayward Gallery, both inside and...... (more)
- Forgotten Spaces Exhibition
- Wed 11th August 2010 - Sun 19th September 2010, 10:00am. Location: Swiss Cottage Library, NW3 3HA Organised by: RIBA London. RIBA London with Design for London and developer and investor Qatari Diar launched the Forgotten Spaces exhibition in May 2010. It showcases the results of the regional competition- launched in January 2010- which invited proposals for overlooked pockets of land in London.
Complementing the...... (more)
- National Schools Ideas Project
- Thu 2nd September 2010 - Thu 30th September 2010, 10:00am. Location: Gallery 2, Royal Institute of British Architects, W1B 1AD Organised by: ASD, London Metropolitan University. Discover the work of an emerging generation of architects and their ideas for the future of design for education. The National Schools Ideas Project is an academic programme linked to the DCSFs Primary Capital Programme and Building Schools for the Future.
It develops innovative ideas for new and...... (more)
- Sauerbruch Hutton Exhibition
- Fri 25th June 2010 - Sun 7th November 2010, 10:00am. Location: Royal Academy of Arts, W1J 0BD Organised by: Royal Academy of Arts. To coincide with the annual architecture lecture an exhibition of works by Sauerbruch Hutton featuring recent projects will be on display....... (more)
- Sudan Cities Shaped Like Animals
- Lede of the Day:
The authorities in southern Sudan have unveiled a $10bn (£6.4bn) plan to rebuild the region’s cities in the shapes of animals and fruit.
The southern capital, Juba, is to be relocated and shaped like a rhinoceros, while Wau will become a giraffe whose neck will form the city’s main boulevard. Appropriately, the city sewerage treatment plant is to be located under the giraffe’s tail.... (more)
- iBiennale
- iBiennale - an iPad app for the Venice Biennale, which opened (the vernisage at least) yesterday I believe. Looks pretty slick.... (more)
- Inception Review at Observations of Film Art
- Speaking of Inception, Observations on Film Art has the best review of Inception I have come across so far:
So we ought to recognize that Inception is relying heavily on motivation from these two sources, genre and commonsense realism. Science fiction grants the possibility of entering people's dreams through a futuristic technology. Likewise, we have all experienced dreams, so the film can appeal to folk wisdom about them. I suggest, though, that the purpose of the film not to explore the ... (more)
- Platypus
- “Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways”.
John Slater in ‘My Life as a Fake’ - Peter Carey 2003... (more)
- Hermes Breeding Crocodiles
- Hermes has begun breeding its own crocodiles in order to meet demand for its handbags. #not_the_onion
(Old news, yes, but I found this hanging out in my drafts folder and thought it worth linking to)... (more)
- 9 Day Traffic Jam
- There is a 100km, nine day traffic jam outside of Beijing.
Surely after nine days stuck between the same group of motorists, some form of economy and community must emerge. China Mielville’s novel ‘Iron Council’ (not his greatest novel…) comes to mind, set on a train that is a linear, kinetic city.... (more)
- Tokyo Compression
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Tokyo Compression. Michael Wolf 2010... (more)
- Christopher Nolan Generic
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Inception has been receiving its deserved attention. Primarily because it is a very good, smart action movie, but also, at least in this neck of the woods, because it is about urbanism, game design, and has characters described as architects.
Of particular interest to me though is the portrayal of the generic downtown in Christopher Nolan's last three films; Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and now, Inception. These are films that are fantastic in the extrem... (more)
- Tropolism Books: The Green Workplace
- Title: The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies that Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom Line Author: Leigh Stringer Publication Date: August 4, 2009 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 978-0230614284 Available at Amazon. Have you ever presented a recycling plan to...... (more)
- Charles Gwathmey, Dead at 71
- We don't do obituaries at Tropolism, but this death is worth mentioning. Charles Gwathmey died August 3rd in Manhattan. Mr. Gwathmey was the target of derision in my very first published article, so I like to think of him as...... (more)
- Poster Designers, Get Ready
- CUP, Tropolism's favorite NYC urban activist group, is at it again. As you may know, they publish a smart poster every few months announcing their initiatives; the poster is called Making Policy Public, or MPP. This time around, they are...... (more)
- Tropolism: Moving Up To 7
- Tropolism made it into the top 10 of the MoPo 2009 list of most popular architecture weblogs (written in English by primarily one person, and vetted by this or that metric) again this year, except moving up to slot...... (more)
- Amazon Wishes
- Just so you know, we have a wishlist at Amazon.com. And, our 4 year anniversary is fast approaching. Click the button to send us stuff: ......... (more)
- Tropolism Exhibitions: The Pictures Generation 1974-1984
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been an embarrassment of riches this summer. Roxy Paine's rooftop installation is an artwork so right for its summer vista (in a way the Madison Square Park installation was not), and so right...... (more)
- Atlantic Yards: The First Post
- Atlantic Yards by Frank O. Gehry: we never liked it. It might be too big. It was a stadium for basketball, a sport we just don't care about and whose only reference point for us is "Madison" "Square" We Knocked...... (more)
- Tropolism Books: Le Corbusier And The Maisons Jaoul
- Title: Le Corbusier And The Maisons Jaoul Author: Caroline Maniaque Benton Publication Date: April 2, 2009 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568988009 Available at Amazon. The Maisons Jaoul, two weekend houses designed by Le Corbusier representing a period of...... (more)
- 3 days Distilleries of Islay
- Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors. Not every whisky produced on the island is heavily peated, but that's the signature flavour of the distilleries along the southern coast. The Isle of Islay is located on the Western edge of Scotland, just north of the sea barriers of Ireland, yet it is the southernmost of the Hebrides. Islay is home to eight active distilleries (with a ninth in production) and whisky tourism p... (more)
- HubPages Marks the Spot
- Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web's 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and I to join thier expert panel and judge entries to their latest contest "HubPages Marks the Spot".Contestants are invited to write a 300 word geo-located guide about local attractions or holiday destinations using that week's theme, and they could win up to $500.The contest starts on September 1st and full details and entry requireme... (more)
- The Russian Woodpecker
- Last week a top-secret Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, began broadcasting a coded message for only the fourth time in 28 years. Today we're exploring another shortwave system within the radioactive zone surrounding Chernobyl, The Russian WoodpeckerThe Russian Woodpecker was an over-the-horizon (OTH) radar system used during the later years of the Cold War. Broadcast towers used for its shortwave signals are still in place near Chernobyl.The Woodpecker nickname derived from the loud and ... (more)
- Airport Emergency Training Locations
- As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It's fascinating because, for anybody who is even vaguely nervous about flying, the sight of a twisted and charred fuselage is probably the last thing they want to see as their plane accelerates down the runway! Here are a few of the best that I've been able to find on Google Maps.Glasgow airport in Scotland have their fire training centre conveniently located next to a road, giving us a gr... (more)
- "The Buzzer" speaks! (Voice transmission confirmed at UVB-76)
- Regular readers may remember our post from 2009 about a Russian shortwave radio station, UVB-76, that has been emitting a short buzz tone on the AM frequency almost continuously since 1982. In the following 28 years the buzzing had only ever been interrupted on 3 occasions … until 2 days ago.On August 23rd 2010, for the first time in over four years, the tone was once more interrupted -- to be replaced with a Russian voice that said:UVB-76, UVB-76 -- 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 -- 9 3 8 8 2 nik... (more)
- Google Street View uncovers death, idiocy, incompetence and supernatural powers
- Last week newspaper websites across the world published a story about a young girl who appeared to be lying dead on the pavement of an English street, proving that the worldwide fascination with Google Street View continues unabated.Fortunately the girl, who must have been slightly taken aback when the world's media1 turned up at her door asking if she was dead, was in fact perfectly all right.A fact that any of the reporters could have been assured of if they'd moved down the street one step, f... (more)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Today marks the 71st anniversary of the universally acclaimed 1939 American musical movie 'The Wizard of Oz', which has been often named as the most-watched film in history. The film was based on the 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum, who has been immortalised in his hometown of Chittenango, NY.Baum was born in Chittenango in 1856, but died 20 years before the seminal film of his work was released. With a recent population of just 4,855 the village still remembers its most... (more)
- Suez Canal
- The Suez Canal is a 193km long waterway in Egypt which connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, allowing ship traffic to pass between Asia and Europe without having to travel all the way around Africa.The narrow width of the canal means that ships can only travel in one direction at a time, with convoys of many vessels travelling together north or south, with pauses along the way to allow traffic to pass in the other direction. Google's images have mostly captured boats travelling north, s... (more)
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