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 […]
Tag 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 […]
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 […]
Parasitic Architecture
Architecture academia posted some ideas about parasitical architecture and I would really like to continue the dialogue and focus on some artistic parasitic projects. A parasite is an organism that grows, […]
Stairs that lead to nowhere
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Tower with Bridges, from Prison Caprices. 1760-61. Etching, 55.2 x 41.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York I have always been fascinated with Piranesi’s Tower […]
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; […]
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