FISTFUL OF LINKS
Map of the deforestation of Bolivia, via Earth As Art (a NASA initiative). My life’s More.
ANTI-OBJECT #3
Guest post by Max Rosin-Melser. In the second post on the book ‘Anti-Object’ [#1 here] More.
FISTFUL OF LINKS
“Remember the old Simon and Garfunkel song ‘slow down, you’re moving to fast’? Well that More.
HITLER
“I mean demagoguery, I mean highly-charged oratory, persuasive whipping up, rhetoric. Listen to me, if More.
SUNDAY. SUN. DAY.
I was messing about with some HTML on this player. One click stops, two clicks More.
TRANSFORMED TERRITORIES: MESSENES
“Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography.” And More.
SEPTEMBER 11: PRUITT-IGOE
Possibly you’ve seen this ad by the World Wildlife Fund (who’d have guessed?) kicking around More.
KEEP AN EYE PEELED
Image via (via). Some retroactive posts on Marseille will be appearing below, so be sure More.
FISTFUL OF LINKS
New Babylon: crazy utopian dreams. Chain chain chain. Chain of fools: some news. Banning porn More.
RETROACTIVE: CALANQUES
A retroactive post. The landscape around Marseille is quite spectacular, as chalky as Greece but More.
RETROACTIVE: MARSEILLE[S]
Marseille: city of the ‘bar’. Note the amazing building right at the back with a More.
RETROACTIVE: THE FIRST TOWER
Responsible response to context. Marseille is modernising rapidly. The idea is to develop the run-down More.
RETROACTIVE: BUNKER ARCHAEOLOGY
Bunker complex on the island of Ratonneau, part of the Frioul archipeligo. Map. A retroactive More.
JUST A LITTLE BIT FITTER
In the Cretaceous Period, tens of millions of years after the laying down of the More.
METABOLISM: ICONS THAT ARE NOT OBJECTS
One of Kenzo Tange‘s early Metabolist (not yet Structuralist) projects, 1961. From the point of More.
ANTI-OBJECT #1
Guest post by Max Rosin-Melser.This is the first of three posts Jack and I will More.
A FISTFUL OF LINKS
via Eric’s Little Dark Star. The daisy chain of links that groups us all together: More.
SPECULAR ARCHITECTURE
The Guggenheim effect – where specular/speculative architecture really began. Today I am going to build More.
COMPOSITE MEMORIES
The Parthenon. After seeing Jason Salavon’s ‘Every Playboy Centerfold’ series, in which he overlayed a More.
UNDER THE ARCHES #1: EUSTON APPROACH
The Arch in the late 50′s. “The Euston Arch was a powerful symbol of the More.
THE PLACE OF THE RUIN
Battersea as it was, and as it could be… Millennium People projects a garden into More.
TERRAFORMING
Drawing made using Terragen2, here. Landscape rendering software is becoming increasingly powerful – several images More.
A FUN PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE
Cedric Prices’ 1961 project Fun Palace, at Mill Meads. The site today, photo by Lara More.
SHARKS IN SPACE
via Discovery. In tracking shark movements, scientists have observed large congregations of sharks during specific More.
THAMES WADING
Will, the powerstation in the background, and the Thames beach… Word on the street is More.
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
Old London Bridge, the drawbridge visible in the middle via. Circa 1831, the new bridge More.
SHIFTING SHORELINES #3: ATLANTIKWALL
A fragment of bunker that has toppled from a cliff above and is slowly being More.
PRINCE OF DARKNESS
An eye for an eye: if Prince Charles thinks he can meddle with modernism, than More.
UNDER THE PAVEMENT, THE MAN.
The final destruction in Antonioni’s 1969 Zabriskie Point Even when the bourgeois Chelsea Marina mob More.
TOTALLY RAD
Green Room, by lanscape artist collective A12, at the Barbican The Barbican’s got an exhibit More.
CASIOS AND BOMBS
Detonation of seized weapons in Afghanistan, via militaryvideos.net – by the troops, for the troops… More.
NON-IMMEDIACY
The star-forming region LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, via Hubble (also, hi-res 2mb) More.
SHIFTING SHORELINES #2: NY
Under the pavement the beach: mid-70′s, just after the completion of the extension of Manhattan, More.
RESEARCH ARCHITECTURE
A mapping exercise I executed on the zoning and usage of Gennevilliers. Today’s post primarily More.
TSCHUMI'S LEGACY
The parthenon gallery at Tschumi’s new museum. The other place I visited when in Athens More.
SHIFTING SHORELINES #1: ST. MAGNUS-THE MARTYR
A. London Bridge (dating from 1973) B. Location of London Bridge prior to 1831 C. More.
MONUMENTA
2001: the spacemen descending into the moon pit, monolith at its centre. Sticking on the More.
STUDIO CRIT #1: GUGGENHEIM HERMITAGE VILNIUS
image via deezeen Why is it that in studio one’s own architectural projects are always More.
L'ARCHITECTURE D'AUJOURD'HUI
My one-time boss and long-time idol Jean Nouvel is relaunching the French magazine “l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui” More.
EXPLODING PLASTIC INEVITABLE
This video made me think of Warhol’s EPI, and his Electric Circus club, Fabrizio Fiumi, More.
DEATH OF THE 20TH CENTURY
“‘The travel agency you tried to attack, I assume there’s a larger target – Chelsea More.
SANNAA @ THE SERPENTINE
Saturday: SANNAA’s new pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery. The architects statement: ‘The pavilion is floating More.