Last night we had the pleasure of previewing the Public Farm 1, by WORK ac. Earlier this year we tried to get members of their firm to compete in ARCHDL IV, they said NO, because the LVHRD event was just a couple days before the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program submission deadline in February of this year.
With just $70,000, they built a giant floating garden out of cardboard tubes. They house live chickens, recharge cellphones, offer a food processor to chop up vegetables, a water feature, periscope, digital dioramas, rubber seating,…
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the apartment is having another one of its unforgettable events tomorrow night tackling the ultimate in sustainable activities. Come be a part of a conversation so esoteric your IQ goes up by proxy, that is if you can make it inside (usually has a line around the block so come early).
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Madeline Gins & Arakawa have decided not to die.
Gins & Arakawa are a husband and wife poetic architecture team who have been working 45 years to create habitats that prolong the life of the inhabitants by taking away any sense of stability.. Their latest is the Bioscleave House in East Hampton, built to cradle tentativeness:
“It gets you back to your basic, generative level of existence…You cannot resolve your view to any one horizon. Therefore you feel mighty tentative.”
There are no level surfaces; there are poles to help you…
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Headgear that helps children empathize with all god’s creatures:
- Massive mandible magnifying glasses that relay a macro picture into a helmet gives you an ant’s-eye view of the world.
- Altering magnetic fields generates a small electrical current, allowing you to experience what a bird feels when it’s navigating home.
- A periscopic headdress changes your vocal frequencies into giraffe range.
Hi kids, welcome to the future where you will laugh, laugh, laugh at the iPhone. The iPhone!
via WMMNA
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We might have been at the forefront of this lumberjack craze with ARCH DL IV, but the History Channel is hot on our heels with AX MEN, an American original in HD.
The “American Original in HD” part is apparently an attempt to brand logging as part of Manifest Destiny, which it is, so…
The show follows a four companies of “tree fallers” as they deforest the Pacific Northwest, showing off the “paper cuts” that have left them with prosthetic arms, 9 toes and steel plates at various critical…
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Dress like a lumberjack or dress like a woodland creature tomorrow night at ARCH DL IV.
For those of us who have not had the pleasure of wielding an axe in the defense of civilization, here’s a short refresher on the essential accoutrement you will need to pass yourself off as a lumberjack.
The forests of the world have known many varietals of lumberjacks, men aged with pine, birch and musk, bred for the needly embrace of the Spokane wind and the icy shards of Hokkaido. But for all their regional…
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The Bush administration censored a report dealing with the safe extraction of Arctic oil and fuel as it prepares to auction off 30 million acres of the remote Chukchi Sea.
“The long-awaited assessment was meant to bring together work by scientists in all eight Arctic nations to give an up-to-date picture of oil and gas exploitation in the high north. In addition to that it was supposed to give policy makers a clear set of recommendations on how to extract safely what are thought to be up to one quarter of…
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Saul Bass’ 1980 docu-animation, The Solar Film, charts the regression of man from dawn-of-time sun-worshiper to oil monger, ending with the hope that we will return to the sun for our primary energy source. Robert Redford produced.
Thirty years later his dream is unrealized, but the animation still kicks ass. Here’s a new, extended cut courtesy of DAS Film Fest.
While we didn’t have The Solar Film in mind when we came up with the scenario for ARCH DL IV, they do bear striking similarities: both reach towards a post-oil world and…
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For professionals, students and savant architects: the AMD Open Architecture Challenge wants to help connect 50% of the world to the internet by 2015.
“Participants are charged with designing digital inclusion centers for up to three community organizations: the Kallari Association in Ecuador, SIDAREC in Kenya and Nyaya Health in Nepal.”
Sign up at the Open Architecture Challenge.
“The overall winning solution will be built and one years’ operating costs will be given to the community partner with funds of up to $250,000 provided by AMD.”
Each of the three regions–South…
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The Japanese have taken it upon themselves to construct with steel the maxim: “metaphor is the language of art”.
Like Noah, whom God called upon to create a new world after The Flood, Sanyo’s massive Solar Ark serves as a rallying point for the faithful in the fight to save earth from mankind’s vast and unerring economic hubris.
Five thousand active solar panels supply over 500,000 KWh of energy to almost 500 lighting units that glow to make words and Delphic shapes.
The Ark also contains a solar museum, research labs…
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As a species we are working very hard to make sure the universe never forgets we were here. From DreamAddictive we have a flash picture swarm of the nauseous juice we shoot into the atmosphere; where it bounces around, how far out into space it drifts before finding rest.
Through the Troposphere and Stratosphere the space around our little planet is speckled with darting particulates: fly specks of CO2, SO2, NOx.
O let’s go fly a kite.
via Infosthetics.
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The latest endeavor from LVHRD member Adam Baruchowitz of Heeb Magazine, Wearable Collections, offers a no-cost solution to NYC’s 386 million annual pounds of textile waste.
Read: threads decomposing in a giant oxpile the size of New Jersey.
We all know it’s not like there isn’t anyone who needs the clothes: Wearable Collections brings the clothes to the people.
All you need to do is request a bin for your apartment building where residents can drop off used clothes.
WC takes care of the delivery, placement, pickup and promotion of…
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