Archive for July, 2005
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Finally! A Role Model for Architect Vigilantes
31 Jul 2005It’s been years since I’ve seen any of the Death Wish movie series, so I was pretty excited when Charles…
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Unbuilt Works Find Life in Art
31 Jul 2005Manhattan Guardian and Seven Soldiers are two new comic books from Scottish writer Grant Morrison. The New York Times reports…
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Weekend Wisdom
31 Jul 2005“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter,…
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Hey! Let’s Get Known!
29 Jul 2005Forget Thomas Mayne! Unleash your inner Thomas PAINE! That’s right, you wanna-be revolutionaries and posing pamphleteers, here’s your chance to…
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The Next Big Thing
29 Jul 2005[The Colossus of Rhodes by Salvador Dali] Reading through discussions of Chicago’s new leading lady, someone suggested that the twisted…
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A New Look for LWB
29 Jul 2005I got a little tired of looking at the old page and felt like flexing some design muscles. It was…
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Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
28 Jul 2005My very first post to Life Without Buildings – a test post, really – was about the possibility of human…
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Screwing Chicago
27 Jul 2005A closer look at Calatrava’s Drill Bit:2,000 feet.115 stories.920,000 s.f.$500 million Some local comentary from A Daily Dose of Architecture…
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Chicago Skyline Redux
26 Jul 2005A Calatrava-designed concrete and glass drill bit is slated to become the newest member of Chicago’s historic Skyline. The residential…
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Hey! Let’s Get Known!
24 Jul 2005Prophecy Magazine is an international bi-annual publication of architecture, art, fashion, music + culture, (did you get all that?) who…
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Cool collaborations
19 Jul 2005Writers, artists, architects, unite! As part of its archrecord2 department, Architectural Record reports on a Long Island City happening that’s…
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A San Francisco (Re)Treat: 2
14 Jul 2005826 Valencia! My favorite pirate supply shop / writing development center! 826 Valencia is a non-profit organization founded by Dave…
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speaking of landscape…
14 Jul 2005While I’m thinking about Landscape Architecture, I thought it’d be worth mentioning Pruned, a fantastic new Landscape Architecture Blog. Check…
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A San Francisco (Re)treat
14 Jul 2005Sadly, my trip to San Francisco has come to a close, and New Orleans has never looked so shitty. I…
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Life Without Life Without Buildings
07 Jul 2005Off to San Francisco for a week! Seeya Wednesday! I know nothing about the city, so if anyone has some…
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Instant Skyline – just add Gehry
05 Jul 2005Wha..? When did a new city become a part of the plan for a Brooklyn stadium? I’m off to work…
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UPDATE: National Iraq War Memorial
05 Jul 2005The winning design has been announced for the questionably legitimate National Iraq War Memorial. From the winning entry’s statment of…
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The Fortress of Ineptitude
01 Jul 2005“Hey did you see this? It’s the entrance to our glorious new Freedom Tower!” “Ha. yeah right. good one.” “No,…