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BE OPEN Goes Big
This September I’ve been working with BE OPEN, the foundation who most notably brought the BE OPEN Sound Portal in London’s Trafalgar Square. Designed by Arup and featuring the work of a number of pioneering recording artists including drum and bass … Continue reading
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The World’s First Printed Building
In a small shed on an industrial park near Pisa is a machine that can print buildings. The machine itself looks like a prototype for the automotive industry. Four columns independently support a frame with a single armature on it. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Engineering
Tagged 3D printing, andrea morgante, enrico dini, norman foster, pisa, radiolaria
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Open Source Design
London’s design scene has been dominated by designers working with craft techniques such as knitting. This has led to a kind of fetishisation of the handmade, a strange pre-reccession moment when the market for one-off handmade design bizarrely fed into a … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Engineering
Tagged brackets, bruce mau, design, droog, eindhoven, grid, linux, open source, open structures, plates, thomas lommee, wikipedia
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Designing Trees: A Short Article Which Isn’t About The London Riots
I’m not one of those people who sees in every news event an architectural solution. Much of the rioting that is taking place in London, and particularly in my home borough Hackney can be put down to a combination of … Continue reading
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Standing in front of a bookcase, feeling baffled.
It would be fair to say that even amongst the librarians here there is a fair amount of amusement— or bewilderment— about the Norman D Stevens archive . Stevens is the retired director of university libraries at the University of Connecticut and, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Media, Old Things, Publishing
Tagged alan bennett, andrew motion, castle park dean and hook, cyril connolly, david adjaye, geoff hook, harvard, horizon, hugh pearman, hull, karen coyle, library of congress, lrb, norman d. stevens, philip larkin, radcliffe camera, renata gutman, seattle public library, thomas jefferson, toads, university of virginia, veritas
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Taking Sinclair Personally
It is hard not to respond to Ghost Milk on a personal level. It is a book about the Olympic Games – an issue I am fascinated by – and its setting is Hackney – the place where I live. … Continue reading
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You’re Worse Than Crystal Palace
The strange British genius for turning media production into a prolonged spectacle, which we have seen during the hackgate scandal, dates back at least to the Great Exhibition of 1851 I would say. Reading through the huge profusion of books … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Design, Media, Publishing
Tagged 1851, crystal fountain, crystal palace, day, Digby Wyatt, great exhibition, Guardian, Hackgate, industrial arts, lithograph, publishing, Punch, robert ellis, routledge
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Souvenirs For Buildings That Don’t Exist
There is a moment in Superman III
Thomas Pynchon’s Guide To The Baedeker
Perhaps it is because I am a stranger relying on the guidance of others that I find the CCA’s collection of Baedeker guides so fascinating. Although I am accutely aware of the need for generous, thoughtful guidance to a new … Continue reading
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Of Montreal
After the establishment of the Committee d’Organisation des Jeux Olympique (COJO) in 1972, the body tasked with not just running the Olympic Games in Montreal but controversially to build the structures, the Canadian Ambassador for Argentina wrote to his superiors … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Architecture, Media, Old Things, Urbanism
Tagged beijing 2008, games, jean drapeau, london 2012, montreal, nick auf der maur, Olympics, paul charles howell, roger tallibert
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