Archive for April, 2009
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Postcard Architecture Disseminates the Future of U.S. Infrastructure
29 Apr 2009["Bridging Parallel Infrastructures"] One of my greatest frustrations with architecture is how inaccessible it is to…well, everyone. All too often…
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Selective Demolition: The Work of Richard Galpin
27 Apr 2009[image via Richard Galpin] For almost 10 years, artist Richard Galpin has been carefully excavating cities; revealing their hidden geometries…
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More Than Meets The Runway: The Prada Transformer
24 Apr 2009[image via Prada Transformer website] A oddly malformed pavilion-like object stands next to the 16th-century Gyeonghui Palace in Seoul, Korea.…
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Spacebuster: Currently Inflating All Over New York City
22 Apr 2009[All images courtesy Doug Johnston. Click for larger version.] Stuck on the Wes Coast but Intrigued by a press release…
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Love, Loss, and World Building
16 Apr 2009Architecture may not be able to mend a broken heart but perhaps it can help ease suffering. Found at the…
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Smithsonian Selects Adjaye for New Museum
14 Apr 2009British architect David Adjaye, in collaboration with The Freelon Group and David Brodie Bond Aedas, has been selected by the…
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Traveling to Mars in Your Parents’ 1970s Living Room
09 Apr 2009[image via NYTimes] In an experiment designed to test the psychological effects of a manned mission to Mars, an international…
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Floater #02, System False, Now Online
06 Apr 2009The second issue of the “online architectural production,” Floater, is now online. The theme of the issue, System False, is…