Unusual Encounters
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 […]
Tag Archives: arts
Coppernickel Goes Mondrian
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 […]
But does it float?
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 […]
Reconfiguring Suburbia
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 […]
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, […]
Hall of Mirrors
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 […]
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 […]
Model Room
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 […]
Do Maps Create or Represent Reality?
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 […]
The Exposed City
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 […]
Sarah Sze
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 […]
Pedestrian Bridges
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; […]
Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon
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 […]
Yellow pipes
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 […]
