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Author Archives: cosmopolitanscum
At Home With Jimmy Carter and Don DeLillo
I read White Noise recently and noticed by chance that Picador have bizarrely just published a 40th anniversary edition of Don DeLillo’s book, although it was first published in 1985. Perhaps it is the accumulated prescience of the book that … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Uncategorized, Urbanism
Tagged Architecture, don delillo, environment, environmentalism, jimmy carter, mike reynolds, steve baer
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Living Inside Dead Turtles.
What is happening in this image below, badly captured on my phone? Is it a picture of a man under threat from a natural disaster? Is it a warning? If it is, what is it a warning against? The man … Continue reading
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Tagged design, design academy eindhoven, japan creative, milan, paul cocksedge, products
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Inspiration: Nigel Peake
I have been following the work of illustrator Nigel Peake since I published his student thesis in the Scottish architecture magazine Prospect just before he won a Silver Commendation in the RIBA President’s Medal in 2005. Since then he has … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Engineering, Uncategorized
Tagged blackfriars, bridges, kennington, London, nigel peake, vauxhall
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Live at the Aquatic
18th Fina Visa Diving World Cup, Monday 20 February 2012 at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park London. First competitive use of the Aquatics Centre diving boards.
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UNESCO and its discontents
Reblogged from citythreepointzero: Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town, from Salisbury Crags A question via twitter from ‘Feria Urbanism’ (hi there..): should Liverpool fear the loss of UNESCO World Heritage Site status? The question refers to Peel Holdings’ ‘Liverpool Waters’, … Continue reading
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Welcome To The Velodrome
UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Thursday 16th February 2012, Men and Women’s Team Pursuit Qualification. First time the Olympic Park Velodrome in London is used for competition.
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All Your Base Are Built By Us.
As the BBC former Economic Editor Evan Davis pointed out in his recent TV series Made in Britain, not only is the UK still the 5th largest industrial nation, but it reached its peak industrial production not in 1890 or … Continue reading
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What Did the Constructivists Ever Do For Us?
With the exhibition Building the Revolution now closed in London, it is worth reflecting on the way in which the achievements of the Constructivists have been revisited and reinvented. Indeed, I would argue that this process rather than any slavish … Continue reading
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Tagged building the revolution, constructivists, lost vanguard, osa, soviet, tatlin
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Isi Metzstein 1928 – 2012
I didn’t know Isi Metzstein as well as those who worked with and studied under him nor, of course, his family. Two days after his death now, there will be individuals he worked alongside at the Glasgow School of Art … Continue reading
