Archive for September, 2008
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Links Without Buildings – 27 September
27 Sep 2008[image via English Russia] An Abandoned Coastline Defense Canon Battery: more bunker archeology. [English Russia] The winners of the White…
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When Shipping Container Architecture Goes Bad…Apocalypse Bad
26 Sep 2008[left image via LOT-EK, right via io9] Shipping Container Architecture will not. go. away. MVRDV’s Container City and LOT-EK’s Mobile…
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A Look Inside Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences
25 Sep 2008[image courtesy Ethen Wood] Life Without Buildings’ Man-On-The Street Ethen Wood stopped in to Renzo Piano’s New California Academy of…
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I’m Not A House But I Play One On Television
23 Sep 2008[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…
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Links Without Buildings – 19 September
19 Sep 2008[David Adjaye's "Sclera" Pavilion. Image via Flickr Usr 770] Lebbeus Woods has compiled a list of words that “once had…
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Synecdoche, New York and Infinitely Repeating Cities
18 Sep 2008The trailer for the new Charlie Kaufman written-and-directed movie, Synecdoche, New York was released today and it’s every bit as…
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Conceal / Reveal: Art For Scaffolding 1
18 Sep 2008Sexifying Construction. Yet another perpetual work-in-progress…
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The Subversive High Rise Designs of Rem Koolhaas and OMA
17 Sep 2008[images via Curbed & OMA.nl] Rem Koolhaas and OMA are perhaps best known for the controversy and spectacle of the…
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Architecture Replaces Authority On Chinese Currency
16 Sep 2008[AP photo via Daylife] Just how popular is Beijing’s Birds Nest? The Herzog & de Meuron designed stadium has replaced…
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Contemporary Polish Architecture Joins New With Old
11 Sep 2008[image via Wallpaper*] Hey, did you hear the one about the Polish submarine? Oh, you did? Well then how about…
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Ant Farm Media Van v.08 Update 3
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New TV Series Fringe Lifted a Libeskind
10 Sep 2008[screenshot of Fringe via fringepedia (already? really?)] Last night saw the official premiere of J.J. Abrams’ new series, Fringe (which…
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Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Homes Now Under Construction
09 Sep 2008[photo courtesy Wayne Troyer] A pleasant surprise was waiting in the Life Without Buildings inbox this morning: construction photos of…
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Moving Beyond Modernism in 6 Easy Steps
08 Sep 2008Moving Beyond Modernism is a simple guide for architects that was originally included in Issue 2 of Something Interesting Kit.…
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Links Without Buildings — 5 September
05 Sep 2008[image via anArchitecture] Loop de Loop is a drastic, almost Koolhaasian rethinking of shipping container architecture, as imagined by NL…
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Urban Objects 3
05 Sep 2008click to see other drawings from this series.
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Arup’s Audio Renderings
04 Sep 2008[images via Arup] While writing a previous post on the audio perception of space, I was reminded of an article…
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Fashion, Architecture, Tastefully 2
03 Sep 2008[image via Wallpaper*] This month’s photo-story in Wallpaper* Magazine, Death in Veneto, takes place in Carlo Scarpa’s Brion-Vega Family Cemetery.…