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Taxidermy Isn’t Boring
Kelly McCallum’s post modern taxidermy attempts have mastered how things age and how their essence can be recaptured and their meaning altered. On a basic level, taxidermy is essentially an art of re-contextualizing animals — generally those which we have all come into contact with whilst they were moving, breathing and in possession of a … Read more
Retirement Is Boring
This story was published in the Ottawa Citizen. I read all architectural news that originates from my hometown because its only a 15min/year commitment. If you want to read the full article it’s here (Hilarious: “Why not combine the Bata name with the last syllable of Ottawa? Batawa has a nice native sound.” I had no … Read more
Germans Are Smart
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,631730,00.html#ref=nlint I also like how they are encouraging txting while driving. Multitasking is the future people- time to adapt. Insane drivers, no public services, absurd txting fees, this would never fly here in Beirut. Let’s just be grateful for the introduction of traffic lights and seat belt laws. Rachel scooped WSJ on the high line, … Read more
HIGH LINER
So there’s this thing hanging out above New York City called the High Line. Maybe you have heard of it, or you’ve caught glances of it hovering over the street, peeking out behind buildings and cutting through the horizon from Gansevoort Street to 30th Street. The steel structure was built to carry freight trains 30 … Read more
49CITIES
If your success and relevance as an architect is measured by whether or not you have come up with your very own Dream City, then have been exactly 49 of them (Picked out of about 200 by WorkAC). When we were studying these things in school, I kind of thought “what’s the point?” cuz really, … Read more
Top Crushes
Am I really into altermodernims or is Nicolas Bourriaud just a mega babe?
Let’s go here?
Found this on the Idler’s ‘Crap Town’ blog. Crap Towns is also a published book, with a sequel, yep. Woking Famous residents: Shakin’ Stevens Everybody says: “I ain’t being funny or nuffin’” Amenities: A pond Entertainment: An old man with Alien Hand Syndrome The first thing you will notice when you leave Woking train station is … Read more
Count me in
Progress is in again- but I’m not sure we’re still allowed to call it a progression.
en la Comunidad de Madrid
Recently a rather paripatetic friend of mine suggested to me that introverted people are more mobile. As an introvert and itinerant, this instinctively appealed to me. His reasoning, simply, was that those who are more withdrawn do not build the expansive social networks of their extroverted counterparts and therefore are bound by only a fraction … Read more
Atelier Zo’s Komaki Municipal Library
It all started last year when my co-worker brought in a milkcrate of older architecture magazines he had gleaned over the years. He was about to audition them for http://www.clipstampfold.com/ an exhibit of “little magazines.” My favourites were JA – the Japan Architect magazine, spanning the 70′s and 80′s. A week later in a stroke … Read more
