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Anarchy on Wall Street
On 16 September 1920, a wagonload containing 45 kilos of explosives and 230 kilos of lead weights placed outside the JP Morgan bank at 23 Wall Street in New York was detonated, killing 38 people and injuring many more. The … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Photography
Tagged Architecture, bombing, CCA, detroit, New York, paul strand
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The Highline and Social Voyeurism or Something That I Thought When I Went to New York Recently Part 1
There is something pleasantly unsettling about the Highline and it is not just the richness of the plantings in an urban context; prairie dropseed; spiked gayfeather; wild quinine; yeah whatever. It is the inversion of the usual egocentric co-ordinates of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Urbanism
Tagged Diller and Scofidio, High Line, New York, Voyeurism
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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
Posted in Design, Engineering, Technology
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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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
Posted in Design, Uncategorized
Tagged design, design academy eindhoven, japan creative, milan, paul cocksedge, products
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Antarctica, industry and the legacy of High Tech.
All Your Base Are Built By Us: High tech and high value manufacturing The new Halley VI research station is the sixth to be built on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica – a region that has established itself … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Engineering, Technology
Tagged Antarctica, Halley VI, HIgh Tech, Hugh Broughton Architects, norman foster, richard roge, richard rogers
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Interview: Michael Webb
Michael Webb was born in Henley-on-Thames in England. Along with his fellow members of the Archigram Group, Webb has contributed more than any other British architect to the wholesale revolution in architectural drawing that took place in the 1960s. Co-opting techniques and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Interview
Tagged archigram, cedric price, konrad wachsmann, maxfield parrish, michael webb, peter cook, reyner banham, richard hamilton
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Interview: Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan born, British designer, engineer, artist, architect, and writer. Known for his close collaborations with architects, such as Toyo Ito on the Serpentine Pavilion and Rem Koolhaas on the Casa da Musica in Porto and … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Design, Engineering, Interview
Tagged AGU, arcelormittal, arup, cecil balmod, james stirling, london 2012, non-linear, orbit, rem koolhaas
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