February 2012
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“The maker leaves a personal mark on his or her presence on the object. In the...”
– Richard Sennett | The Craftsman 2008
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“Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but,...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Urban Food Maps →
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This Mega City article is naff!! NAFF! →
Disappointing article really… worth a quick look for reference I guess.
The article extrapolates some extreme predictions of cities and their urban development. I am always wary once items become ranked and filed. What defines each region and populous within. Are these large urban cities sustainable? equitable? … and is density the answer.
Perhaps I’m being generalist but...
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Architecture students take note: →
Formulate your final presentations with the professional @Formulor… @Ponoko for my fellow antipodes
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Anybody know anyone privy to La Manzanilla and...
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“…today’s house is not just a simple “machine for living”; and this is...”
– Selma Mikou | Mikou Design Studio
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January 2012
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Oscar Tusquets Blanca coerced by the infinite
Oscar Tusquets Blanca reports on the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona Spain initiated by Antoni Gaudi.
Once a critic, Blanca writes with some sentiment of how the longstanding structure has wooed him in favour of the church since consecration in March 2010. These images are only a smidgen of the beauty the architectural work beholds, idealised over a century ago this self funded development continues...
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Primitive Lodgings - Oppenheim Architecture +... →
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Food Trucks Crash Sydney →
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WatchHad to reblog this… just had to…
blah-city:
THE SPERM BIKE - In the streets of Copenhagen you find the worlds first sperm bike! The bike is the transport from the spermbank to the fertility clinics. It´s simply easier and faster to get around in Copenhagen on a bike than in a car.
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Inclusive urban medium speaks for half the globe →
A Swiss developed website forum which allows members to upload mini documentaries on urban projects sharing knowledge, issues and accomplishments in urban developments. This is a wonderful interface with project documentaries organised in movable cloud clusters, alphabetically or by geographic location.
Created by Rainer Hehl and Jörg Stollmann in 2009, this website is an important and relevant...
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Transparency in architectural materials →
A neat iniative to encourage transparency for building products in design and specification for constructing a healthier say greener future courtesy Perkins + Will.
Watchlandscapearchitecture:
Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities
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Lessons From the Front Lines of Social Design by... →
Thanks to Jodes for highlighting a fantastic and longstanding initiative. The full immersion of architecture students with Rural Studio into a hands on approach to design and construction reveals certain realisms about building (ie. constructability) and seems to procure everlasting bonds of comradery within the stduent groups.
Projects are welfare oriented, are affordable and green...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Turns out we have quasi public places... →
As it happens the current Occupy movement reveals we have quasi public places. The movement across several cities worldwide challenge the dimensions of what makes a public space, who owns it… if anybody, and what happens… if anything, and for how long? This last question is what is the difficult one to answer.
Will this develop into a new public place? The challenge ensues…
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“If I’m senile, I guess I would be the last to know”
– Bertrand Russell
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A Cautionary Tale... →
Errol Morris explores truth through his story telling of the Umbrella Man from JFK’s assasination
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“A good city is like a good party, you stay for longer than you plan.” - Jan Gehl http://t.co/pWm3dmtb”
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Ruskins purpureus flight o'er Europe
Syria and Greece, Italy and Spain, laid like pieces of a golden pavement into the sea-blue, chased, as we stoop nearer to them, with bossy beaten work of mountain chains, and glowing softly with terraced gardens, and flowers heavy with frankincense, mixed among masses of laurel, and orange, and plumy palm, that abate with their grey-green shadows the burning of the marble rocks, and of the...
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“DOES THE LAYMAN IN THE STREET REALLY GIVE A FIG?!?”
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WatchFight to the Death Building Battle to settle the score between Conan O’Briens homes
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Remodelling density in NYC →
October 2011
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Denton Corker Marshall spaghetti bridge didn't... →
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WatchTEDxNewy - Shock Of The New
Here is a teaser for the independently organised TED(x) talks November 2011. Applications to attend are closed, so be sure to follow these talks through social media about change and placemaking drawn from global experience related to Newcastle and I believe it’s unrealised potential.
Speakers include:
Marcus Westbury; Conor Ashleigh; Liz Mullinar; Dr Peter...
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September 2011
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Dekochari Bikes | Japan →
Image of Dekochari (decorated charinko) easy riders from Japan taken by Tokyo Photojournalist Tony Mcnicol.
Taking ‘pimp my ride’ to another level, these guys lead the way in making the most of the very least.
To quote Tony:
“These guys are standing by their “dekochari” bikes. Dekochari are the pushbike version of dekotora (decorated trucks) you see every now and...
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“I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human...”
– Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters
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