Andrei Codrescu’s Innovative Infrastructure
In a recent Architect Magazine article, a diverse group of professionals were asked how they would change infrastructure if they had $1.6 Trillion to play with. Most of the response were what you’d expect — get rid of cars, more greenspace, light rail systems — but a couple stood out from the rest. By far, [...]
Bunker Bustin’ in the Headlands
Apropos yesterday’s post on French architecture firm Block and their reuse of military bunkers, some photos from last weekend’s cloudy hike through the Marin Headlands.
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New To Me: BLOCK
Why do I like French architecture firm BLOCK? 2 reasons: clever adaptive reuse projects and because they live up to their name, dammit. “BLOCK.” The name provokes images of solid mass — even the letters somehow read heavy — and I like a certain weight in architecture. It seems difficult to find a successful contemporary [...]
Less Hadid, More Giant Women
The Architecture Foundation recently announced that they’ve called off plans for construction of a permanent London address. Program development will continue, but due to the current economic slump, their new Zaha Hadid-designed home was scrapped — and Life Without Buildings couldn’t be happier. Nothing against the AF or Ms. Hadid, but the aggressive design [...]
Folk Football and Baseball Urbanism
[images via strange harvest]
In a fascinating revisiting of his Folk history of football, Strange Harvest describes the 15th century game as a picturesque divertissement played across villages and into the surrounding landscapes, with loosely defined “players” essentially turning their environment into a gamefield.
The whole landscape became transformed into game-space. Houses, agriculture, sites of worship [...]
Over 1,321,453 Served
Fresh off a loss in Arch Duel, New York architects FXFOWLE will have to console themselves with their winning entry for a new bridge in everyone’s favorite future distopia, Dubai. At 1 mile long and 673 ft high, the “multi-modal” bridge will the longest and tallest arch bridge in the world, the 6th crossing across [...]
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