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Visionary Architecture

January 25, 2014by Sara 3 Comments

Louis Khan, City Tower, 1958 “When the imagination surpasses the limits permitted by the institution of culture, one speaks of poesie, utopia. When critical thought attains and surpasses its limit […]

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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

Rolling Masterplan

August 14, 2012by Sara 4 Comments

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 […]

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Architects, Cedric Price, City, Infrastructure, Urbanism

Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt

August 3, 2012by Sara 7 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 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

Taking Measure

July 12, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

The Exposed City written by Nadia Amoroso, which I have written about a little here introduced me James Corner, landscape architect and Principal at James Corner Field Operations. I feel like I should […]

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Architects, Collage, Mapping, 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

Model Room

May 18, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

In Jorge Luis Borges’ story, On Exactitude in Science, Borges imagines an empire where cartographers become so extreme that they believe that the only a map that will suffice will need to […]

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Architects, Artists, Fiction

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

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