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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

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

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

Streetlamps

June 10, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

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 […]

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Artists, City, Infrastructure, 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

Do Maps Create or Represent Reality?

May 9, 2012by Sara 5 Comments

Kim Dingle, Maps of the U.S. Drawn from Memory by Las Vegas Teenagers, 1990 Do maps create or represent reality? And what is the reality that they purport to either create […]

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Artists, City, Mapping, Urbanism

The Exposed City

March 23, 2012by Sara 2 Comments

I am reading The Exposed City Mapping the Urban Invisibles by Nadia Amoroso. Nadia Amoroso specialises in visual representation by using mapping strategies and reorganizes information and patterns found in architecture and […]

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Artists, Mapping

Sarah Sze

March 21, 2012by Sara 4 Comments

After a seven days’ march through woodland, the traveller directed towards Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great […]

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Artists, Italo Calvino

Pedestrian Bridges

March 19, 2012by Sara 1 Comment

I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; […]

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Architecture, Italo Calvino

Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon

March 16, 2012by Sara 6 Comments

I have been influenced by the Dutch artist and architect Constant Nieuwenhuys, whose 18-year architectural project entitled New Babylon was first conceived under the auspices of the Situationist theory of […]

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Situationist International, Urbanism

Yellow pipes

March 15, 2012by Sara Leave a comment

Have you noticed these yellow pipes? We encounter pipes like this in our daily lives but because of their banality, they are usually overlooked.   These are the city’s gas pipes […]

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Yellow Pipes

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