Winchester Mystery House
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 […]
Category Archives: Infrastructure
The flow of things
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 […]
Aerotropolis
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, […]
Rolling Masterplan
I wrote about Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt not too long ago and this morning I saw this on iGNANT and had to post it right away. The Rolling Masterplan was proposed […]
Auto-centric
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 […]
Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt
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 […]
Public Art and Urban Interventions
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 […]
Streetlamps
I have been walking around my hood for one last farewell and I stumbled upon a street lamp that I never noticed before near a busy intersection close to where […]
Tunnels
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 […]
Can density be beautiful?
I saw this image of Shanghai’s 20 year transformation and I was really mesmerised with the amount of urban development the city has undergone. Unfortunately, its not a very flattering image […]
Non-Plan
In 1969, Cedric Price with Paul Barker (writer), Reyner Banham (architecture historian) and Peter Hall (geographer and planner) published ‘Non-Plan: an experiment in freedom’ an article in a social affairs […]
Parking Garages
I was thinking about Ed Rusha’s Thirty-Four Parking Lots series that he completed in 1967. What I like about them is their complete banality of subject matter, an urban landscape constructed […]
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