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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

The Contradiction of Consumerism

May 3, 2013by Sara 5 Comments

Bangladeshi volunteers and rescue workers pictured at the scene after an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 25, 2013. (Munir uz Zaman/AFP/Getty) With the […]

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Artists, City, Urbanism

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

Diagram Mapping

February 3, 2013by Sara 7 Comments

World map by Ranulf Higden, British Library Recently, in my ongoing researching of maps, I discovered that before the 15th century, the word “map” did not exist. Instead, what today […]

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Artists, City, Fiction, Mapping, Urbanism

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

The flow of things

December 6, 2012by Sara 8 Comments

Sara Graham, StreetFinder: Vancouver, 2012, LJT40 Print mounted on dibond, 32 x 48″ I recently started reading Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information  by Manuel Lima. Although the book was recently […]

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Artists, City, Infrastructure, Mapping, Urbanism

Unusual Encounters

November 16, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

Julian Charriere, Some Pigeons are More Equal than Others, 2012 When I came across this post on iGNANT I was immediately intrigued (and maybe a bit concerned for the welfare of […]

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Artists, City, Urbanism

Coppernickel Goes Mondrian

October 21, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

Wouter van Reek, illustrations for Coppernickel Goes Mondrian Piet Mondrain, Red Tree This might seem like an unusual choice for a post but I recently got a children’s book from the library […]

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Artists, City

But does it float?

October 14, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

I pass this abandoned floating restaurant on my commute home. It seemed like such a great idea – a restaurant that was able to dock anywhere along the River, offering […]

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Artists

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

Auto-centric

August 9, 2012by Sara 5 Comments

Thomas Bayrle, $, 1980 As I mentioned in a previous post I have been reading Michael Sorkin’s All Over the Map and I just finished Sorkin’s essay the Jungle Urban: Welcome […]

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Artists, City, Infrastructure

Public Art and Urban Interventions

July 21, 2012by Sara 10 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

Hall of Mirrors

July 18, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles was constructed between 1678-1684. The key feature of this famous hall was the seventeen mirror-clad arches that reflected the windows that […]

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Artists, City

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

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