Beautiful, tiny house in Buenos Aires by Pop Arq:
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Category Archives: architecture
Tokyo 1963
Short clip of Tokyo in 1963
Bill Murray, Poetry and Architecture
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I gave a presentation at Green Monday’s yesterday. Thanks to Rob Oudendijk for the pictures.
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I’m lost for words having seen this:
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
Tokyo and the end of architecture (an informal tale about Tokyo)
I wrote a short piece on Tokyo for the UIA World Congress of Architecture which will be held here in Tokyo in 2011.
A visiting architect-friend of mine described Tokyo colorfully as “an urban disaster with shit-piled-upon-shit”. Seeing my slightly annoyed face, he thoughtfully added “but it is fascinating shit”. This is a stereotypical reaction I have heard many times over, and not only from visitors. The Japanese themselves, architects as well as non-architects mutter an apologetic reference to European cities when we talk about Tokyo. Kenzo Tange once said that Tokyo has had many times over the chance to rebuild itself: after the Great Earthquake of 1923 or after the World War â…¡ bombings, but according to Tange the rebuilding from an urban design’s point of view always failed. Did Tokyo, the world’s largest urban entity, really fail?
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Crystal Mesh
A new building in Singapore features a facade made of 3,000 modules of which some contain light. At night these lights create animated patterns. very interesting building, l like the various open-garden levels created by the curvatures as well. (via Interactive architecture )
CRYSTAL MESH from autokolor on Vimeo.