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Getting the Folk out
Reading the early reviews of the American Folk Art Museum in New York makes you realise that there was a crushing logic to the decision by MOMA’s board to selected Diller Scofidio & Renfro to decide whether any parts of … Continue reading
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Squarepusher and the Geometry of Sound
In one of Arup’s London offices is an array of speakers designed to help architects and acoustic engineers hear how the designs of their spaces will sound when complete. It’s called an ambisonic array. Virtual sound models for proposed concert … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Engineering, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged arup, London, london design festival, sound, squarepusher, tom jenkinson, trafalgar square
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Avante Arduino
What’s the greatest piece of design to come out of Italy in the last decade? The Branca chair by Mattiazzi? Something by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso? It was the Arduino, a simple microcontroller board, named according to the Wall Street … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D printing, arduino, Be Open, hacking, technology will save us, tom dixon
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Endless Interruptions
Designer Sam Bernier’s starting point is the ultimate contemporary dilemna. “After finishing the content of a mason jar… I always clean it and keep it for later use. I quickly realised that I had almost no opportunities to actually reuse … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Printing, Design, Engineering
Tagged 3D printing, Be Open, disruptive technology, industrial revolution, instructables
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The Airport Guy
The all-to brief appointment of Daniel Moylan as chairman of the London Legacy Development Company marks a sea-change in the development landscape in London. His departure, after just 7 weeks, marks the end of an 8 year period during which … Continue reading
Posted in Engineering, Urbanism
Tagged airport, boris johnson, London, mayor, moylan
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“To the traditional sounds of an English summer…”
After the first weekend of the Games, it’s already becoming clear that the relationship between the city and the event is working well. This is partly because half the population of the British capital has apparently been scared into going … Continue reading
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Nothing Will Be Restrained
This short film essay looks at how man has built and talked about elemental architecture forms since the Tower of Babel. It takes the viewer inside the ArcelorMittal Orbit for the first time as well as placing it in historical … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Architecture, Engineering
Tagged 2012, anish kappoor, boris, cecil balmond, Olympics, orbit
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Poor Wee Wenlock
Some people saw it as symbol of a military state’s collusion with the corrupt forces of international sport. To me it looked very much like a penis dressed as a policeman. When I read in this Guardian article that the … Continue reading
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An End to Psychogeography.
Having written a short book analysing the architecture and urban plan of the Olympics, I’d like to address some of the other criticism about the Olympic development. I have taken issue with Iain Sinclair on this blog before, not just … Continue reading
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