river green…
Research Blog | September 3, 2009
From Milwaukee – having trouble finding out who made this and in what format – if anyone knows, please post. But it’s beautiful and hideous:
Animal Wall
Research Blog | August 30, 2009
…Making animals part of a building site’s program: In Wales, artist Gitta Gschwendtner matches new apartments built one for one with bird and bat nesting environments. Commissioned by the Wales-based public art consultancy Safle, Animal Wall’ is part of a 50 metre long wall, running along the south-western edge of ‘Strata’, a new residential development…
A HOUSE, A GARDEN, A STOCKBREEDING
Research Blog | August 21, 2009
Another project that is stunning to look at — and slightly vengeful to consider — won a notable mention at ReBurbia: Designed ByStéphane Degoutin & Gwenola Wagon – Nogo Voyages The huge amount of vacant land in the abandoned american suburbs can be used to increase the ruralization of the city. We propose themed neighborhoods,…
Foreclosures Become Nature
Research Blog | August 21, 2009
I just came upon this – amazing proposition — looking for post industrial (and post-slurb) utopianizers: …Calvin Chiu’s Frog’s Dream, which proposes to re-establish a sustainable relationship between city and suburbia by transforming foreclosures (’McMansions’) into wetlands and natural water filtration systems for urban centers. The idea maker speaks of a ‘Living Machine’ of eco-water treatment machines, in…
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View
Research Blog | August 20, 2009
Lovely article at Art Fag City, on Google Street View’s incidentally captured moments. Two years ago, Google sent out an army of hybrid electric automobiles, each one bearing nine cameras on a single pole. Armed with a GPS and three laser range scanners, this fleet of cars began an endless quest to photograph every highway…
Graphopolis II
Research Blog | August 4, 2009
This one is nice (because I am biased) and yes, it is obvious… from New York Mag (thanks Mitch Said!)
Graphopolis
Research Blog | July 26, 2009
Looking at graphic augmentation of the city + civilians. …from a protest in Paris over the Iranian post-election crackdown, and the murder of protester Neda Agha-Soltan: …election posters hung in Tripoli around the election in spring 2009: …images from Delete! (2005) site-specific project in Vienna, Austria by Steinbrener/Dempf: …in Toronto, Sean Martindale and Eric Cheung…