Links Without Buildings – 27 September
[image via English Russia] An Abandoned Coastline Defense Canon Battery: more bunker archeology. [English Russia] The winners of the White House Redux competition have been announced. BLDG BLOG has the winners and a behind-the-scenes look at the judging process. [BLDG BLOG] MONU, the Magazine On Urbanism, are now accepting submissions for their next issue. Theme: [...]
When Shipping Container Architecture Goes Bad…Apocalypse Bad
[left image via LOT-EK, right via io9] Shipping Container Architecture will not. go. away. MVRDV’s Container City and LOT-EK’s Mobile Dwelling Unit (above left) are two of the most famous examples, but the irrepressible Adam Kalkin and other makeshift shipping magnates continue to explore the possibilities of a cargo-friendly living — so much so that [...]
A Look Inside Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences
[image courtesy Ethen Wood] Life Without Buildings’ Man-On-The Street Ethen Wood stopped in to Renzo Piano’s New California Academy of Sciences, a building described by New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff as “a blazingly uncynical embrace of the Enlightenment values of truth and reason. Its Classical symmetry — the axial geometry, the columns framing [...]
I’m Not A House But I Play One On Television
[images via S.A.R.A.H.'s Twitpic] In an cross-disciplinary exploration of Architecture, television, journalism, and new media, S.A.R.A.H (Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat), the self-aware home of Sheriff Jack Carter in the SciFi television network series Eureka, was recently “twitterviewed” by NotCot. That’s right — the house was interviewed. Built from the remains of a bomb shelter and [...]
Links Without Buildings – 19 September
[David Adjaye's "Sclera" Pavilion. Image via Flickr Usr 770] Lebbeus Woods has compiled a list of words that “once had currency in architecture but have become, in effect, dead.” In completely unrelated news, I have a radical, new and completely original idea for experimental housing based on principles of critical progress. It’s genius, really. The [...]
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