Bus Stops As Urban Playground
[image via DVICE] For far too long, bus stops have been ugly, ubiquitous reminders of inefficient transportation, dreary commutes, and the public saturation of advertising. No longer! Industrial designer Bruno Taylor thinks it’s time to reclaim the streets in the name of Play. Life Without Buildings wholeheartedly agrees. To reclaim the city for children now [...]
Future Megastructures, Starship Breaking, and Independence Day 2
[image via io9] As the human race dares to venture further out into space, we’re going to have to adapt our construction methods for large-scale space travel — think starships, space docks, habitable satellites, and other mega-objects too insanely large for construction on this gravity-well we call Earth. In a thought-provoking article, scifi blog io9 [...]
It’s Pinup Time for The Sundance Channel’s Architecture School
[The URBANbuild house designed and built during Architecture School] In today’s reality-TV obsessed culture, any architecture student who has spent an all-nighter (i.e. every architecture student) working in studio has had the 4 am amphetamine-induced epiphany, “hey, someone should make this into a reality show.” Well now someone has, and according to early reviews, The [...]
Links Without Buildings – 15 August
[The Phyllis Wheatley school in New Orleans. Currently threatened with demolition. via regional.modernism] Region Modernism: The New Orleans Archives. “Documenting The Process of Documenting Modernism in New Orleans.” And be sure to check out their Flickr set of threatened Modernist Public Schools in New Orleans (I know, right?!) and—why not?—two new tracks from a favorite [...]
“The suburbs have three destinies, none of them exclusive: as materials salvage, as slums, and as ruins.”
[My childhood home and personal corner of Suburbia] That bit of wisdom from James Kunstler. Yes, the James Kunslter who seems to take so much joy from coming up with innovative ways to describe just how much he hates something. His vitriolic response, which continued to describe the suburbs as “the greatest misallocation of resources [...]
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