Gentrification Bingo
We think New York is past the point of gentrification; you’re hard-pressed to go outside and NOT find these things.
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Did I get played?
Interesting situation on the B train from Brooklyn this morning:
I was standing in the doorway listening to my iPod very loud. I do this so I hear ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BUT WHAT I WANT TO HEAR.
The train was moving along at a nice clip when I felt a tug on the back of my jeans, about calf-high. I turned…
Austrian prison: when can we move in?
Gorgeous looking prison in Austria. Actual rooms, sunlight.
What if people came out of prison rehabilitated? There’s a thought.
via Andrea Harner
Best setting ever for a zombie movie
The World, “water-based island masterplan” off the coast of Dubai, is ready for developers to start building custom $10 million island communities and resorts.
Massive sand-tankers built The World one archipelago at a time by spraying earth into the sea. How God is that?
Transportation around the aqueous city-state will be almost entirely by boat, ensuring that it’s only a…
Buy a bunker at world’s end
We know the end is always drawing rapidly and extremely nigh: visions of nuclear holocausts win Pulitzer Prizes.
If you want to be comfortable during mankind’s final days you should buy a missile base, the 20th Century’s Castle. Used during the the 1960s to house various ICBM missiles–Atlas E “coffin launchers,” Atlas F and Titan–these underground bunker-silos were capable of sustaining…
Shigeru Ban speaking at Cooper Union
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, designer of the yet-t0-be-finished (but almost!) Centre Pompidoul-Metz cultural center, will be speaking next Tuesday at Cooper Union on architecture and the environment.
Mr. Ban was the man behind using cardboard tubes to house refugees from the Kobe earthquake in 1995. Through the UN he shipped tube houses to Turkey and Rwanda as well: “Refugee shelter has…
Saul Bass: return to the sun or die
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…
When architects dream
If man-made opolises moved as transmutably as the natural landscapes we might not be so quick to disavow their development.
Paul Hollingworth imagines a more natural collusion of the organic and synthetic in his We Love to Build series: floating file cabinet buildings with unmoored drawers; vanishing point bridges that seem to follow the sky.
All of the structures bear the mantra…
Open Architecture Challenge
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…
Park(ing) Day 2007
All over NYC today parking spaces will be transformed into mini parks as part of a nationwide effort by The Trust for Public Land to give our cities back to the people who live in them.
Our sidewalks are packed: a 250 square foot parking space can hold about 45 standing people, 20 bikes, one tree and bench, or an SUV.…
Global Monolith Cities: man/man/planet conflict
Regine on We Make Money Not Art went to the Global Cities show at the Tate Modern in London: “In 2007 for the first time in history 50% of people on earth are living in cities.”
Her report on the show got us thinking about the conflict between man’s desire to consume and his desire to keep on living; also the enormous…
Chelsea art DOA: Influx of galleries to the New Bowery
From LVHRD member Jon Cronin’s blog:
“With the exception of a few anchor stores, it (Chelsea) has turned into a giant mall with bland artwork from uninspiring artists. What happened to the head of the New York Artist Movement? According to an article in the New York Observer the Movement is growing up near the “new” New Museum space opening…
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