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Impossible Architecture

June 2, 2013by Sara Leave a comment

Fillip Dujardin, D’Ville 007, 2012 WAM Architecten, Inntel Hotel I have written before about not being that interested in artists who seamless use photoshop to create a new reality. For me collage is much […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Collage

Vancouver Matters

April 27, 2013by Sara 4 Comments

I just finished reading Vancouver Matters a  book  in which artists, architects, and urban planners presents the city of Vancouver through a variety of uncharacteristic urban elements as a “counterpoint to the […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Winchester Mystery House

February 13, 2013by Sara 1 Comment

Knaresboruough, Yorkshire a stairwell that leads to nowhere Recently, I was a sent a link to this website that depicted 22 stairs that lead to nowhere. While I wrote a […]

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Architecture, Artists, Fiction, Infrastructure

Collaging New Forms

December 13, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

A couple of weeks ago I saw this post from Dezeen about Dutch studio MVRDV ‘s proposal of a 400-metre skyscraper for Jakarta that looks like a collage of many separate buildings. What struck me […]

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Architects, Architecture, Artists, City, Collage

Lebbeus Woods

November 5, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

System Wein with Christoph Kumpusch , 2005 is an experimental sketch of Vienna’s 1st District, and shows how it might find a way to change, even radically, without rejecting its […]

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Archigram, Architects, Architecture, Cedric Price, City, Visionary Architecture

Reconfiguring Suburbia

September 26, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

I have finished reading Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape, an exhibition catalogue published by the Walker Arts Center in 2008 for the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscape. I realise […]

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Architects, Architecture, City, Urbanism

Aerotropolis

September 14, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

Peter Cook had great insight about using the airport as a model to build a city. I thought this was a great idea to start thinking about our city, its structure, […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Infrastructure, Uncategorized, Urbanism

Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt

August 3, 2012by Sara 6 Comments

I now take the West Coast Express home from work. I have a short commute and rather enjoy the quiet, relaxing travel from Vancouver. I am on the train for […]

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Architects, Architecture, Cedric Price, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Visionary Architecture

Ant Farm

July 28, 2012by Sara 10 Comments

I am currently reading Michael Sorkin’s, All Over the Map Writings on Buildings and Cities (2011), and while I will be talking about it in a future blog, I wanted […]

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Architects, Architecture, City, Visionary Architecture

Public Art and Urban Interventions

July 21, 2012by Sara 9 Comments

Pierre Vivant, Traffic Tree, 2008 Pierre Vivant, Traffic Tree, 2008 The definition of what public art is has slowly evolved over the last two decades from large-scale sculptures to urban interventions […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Why are so many cities afraid of colour?

July 10, 2012by Sara 5 Comments

I am finally starting to get settled. I have almost unpacked, changed my mobile number and have had my connection to the Internet made. I am now living across the […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

Tunnels

May 29, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for […]

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Architecture, Artists, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Relocating

May 11, 2012by Sara 6 Comments

I am relocating and it is not to a neighbouring community or across to the other side of town but across the country. I am now knee deep in the daunting […]

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Archigram, Architects, Architecture, City, Visionary Architecture

Dazzle Camouflage

May 1, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

I have recently noticed some artists using the strategies of dazzle camouflage. Unlike the  “woodland” pattern of muted green, yellow and brown abstract organic blobs and stripes adopted by the US […]

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Architecture, Artists

‘Fake’ Estates

April 23, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

Gordon Matta-Clark, Reality Properties: Fake Estates, 1973-74 Uranculturalstudies’ recent post, “Deconstructing Reality: Gordon Matta-Clark” highlighting Matta-Clark’s well known body of work ‘building cuts’ (architectural interventions consisting of the strategic removal […]

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Architecture, Artists, City, Urbanism

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