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The Limits of Europe: Nuclear City
The Limits of Europe is a new series of special reports from the outer reaches of Europe. In these wastelands and the structures they contain: from space stations in the Arctic regions to modern ruins on the Mediterranean rim, we … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Limits of Europe, Urbanism
Tagged chernobyl, Druzhba, fukushima, ignalina, International Atomic Energy Agency, lithuania, nuclear power, pipes, soviet union, visiginas
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Postmodernism: It’s History
It is entirely possible to love the current exhibition Postmodernism: Style and Subversion at the V&A and find in it a sign of why Post-Modernism is at a dead end.
Posted in Architecture, Art, Design
Tagged aldo rossi, arata isozaki, blade runner, brad cloepfil, charles jencks, charles moore, laurie anderson, modena, modernism, new order, peter saville, postmodernism, san cataldo, V&A, vaughn oliver, zhora
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Why Park Hill Should Live
Reyner Banham liked Park Hill. To the greatest critical champion of New Brutalism, it was ‘the biggest brutalist building ever completed’ an example of all that he had, once at least, held dear. In his book The New Brutalism, written … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Old Things, Urbanism
Tagged brutalism, egret west, english heritage, english partnerships, hawkins brown, homes and communities agency, housing market renewal agency, ivor smith, jack lynn, le corbusier, lynsey hanley, owen hatherley, park hill, reyner banham, sheffield, smithsons, urban splash
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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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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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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
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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All The People
Just a short walk north from the Olympic stadium, up a canal dug in the 1770s, is the Hackney Marshes. Unprepossessing on a weekday with the wind whipping in from the west, this site has in a fact become defined … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Old Things, Urbanism
Tagged bastard countryside, bucolic, david beckham, football, hackney marshes, industrial, landscape, rio ferdinand, stanton williams, terry venables
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