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09 NOV 09
Statens Naturhistoriske Museum prize [Terroir] SAVE
"TERROIR has won a prize in the international competition for a new Natural History Museum in Copenhagen's historic Botanical Gardens. TERROIR’s scheme was based upon the cellular nature of the Botanic Garden as it is currently organised. A series of bulbs are literally "planted" below the surface and merge together to create a diverse range of gallery and storage spaces. The extraordinary collection held by the new institution is archived on the lower level, allowing glimpses down to the collections from exhibition spaces above. The TERROIR scheme challenged a major rule of the competition, which required the new project to be completely underground. Our proposal suggested that one or more of these "bulbs" might grow above the ground level to provide café and entrance facilities and also to create a new glass spire." Fantastic! Well done Gerard and crew.TAGS
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At Home with Nick Knight [Adam & Eve] SAVE
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"Iconic British photographer, Nick Knight, opens his personal photo album giving us a look inside his David Chipperfield designed house in Surrey."TAGS
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08 NOV 09
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi [The Observer] SAVE
"Reading about this encounter is as thrilling as watching it on TV. So is the blow-by-blow recreation of the 2006 match against Baghdatis – more physically bruising than the one against Becker, but with the added appeal of mutual respect and graciousness thrown in. Watching even low-ranked pros, one is amazed by the way they have time to compose themselves when the ball is fizzing back and forth so quickly. For Agassi, time expands to such an extent that, in the penultimate victory of his career, against James Blake in 2006, it takes half a paragraph to itemise decision-making processes that last for the microsecond that the ball is in flight."TAGS
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01 NOV 09
London litened [k-punk] SAVE
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"And in the evening, rushing to escape the black hole of the city, you have to play live-action Pac Man with the London Lite and the londonpaper drones blocking the pavement every few yards. As if London needed people - poorly paid members of the city's immigrant subproletariat, at that - actually being employed to obstruct the pavement. In the train, the free papers are everywhere, their dull gloss a lurid temptation for the drained mind ... cut and pasted PR ... nothing happening forever ... cocaine celebrities ... a survey says... join in the debate... vote: more or bore... your texts... consume it and feel lulled and sullied... Semiotic parasites designed to prey upon hypnagogic drift. Weapons against the city's intelligence." Very good.TAGS
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24 OCT 09
Paris: there will be no miracles here [Creature of the Shade] SAVE
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"For the first time in 18 years, I've been back to Paris, and have had a chance to review with the impressions that it made on me when I lived there as a student in 1986, and visited for the last time in 1991. Inevitably, however much I've followed the news -- immigrant riots in troubled surburbs, new metro lines, bike rental systems, EuroDisney, high-speed trains, new museums and libraries -- I still see through my impressions of the city I knew 23 years ago. Those impressions can never be fully over-written because they formed the categories that organise my experience of the city, and categories, by their nature, lurk partly unseen in the life of the senses. " Lovely writing.TAGS
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Netherlands: the welcoming square [Creature of the Shade] SAVE
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"What have I seen in the Netherlands? A nation bent on constructing an industrious and sensible serenity. Content that architecture be simple, square, firm, because the opposing impulses (sex, death) are already there in the rippling water of the endless urban canals. Because water will always destroy right angles, whether in the shimmering instant of reflection or the grinding eternity of subsidence."TAGS
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Urban Age Lecture Series | Cities, Design and Climate Change [Urban Age] SAVE
"Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd professor of Sociology, Columbia University, and Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, New York University and London School of Economics. With cities contributing disproportionatly to global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the social, political and economic impacts of creative urban design solutions coming out of the world's cities."TAGS
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Sean Parker’s Rise of Facebook And Twitter, Fall Of Google Presentation [Techcrunch] SAVE
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"Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, Founder’s Fund managing partner Sean Parker gave a provocative presentation entitled “The New Era Of The Network Service.” In it, he argues that so-called “network services” like Facebook (which he helped start) and Twitter will soon dominate the web, rather than “information services” like Google and Yahoo." Interesting.TAGS
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No Photos Please [Archinect] SAVE
"David Chipperfield has asked the Des Moines Public Library to forbid pictures. Bit of a control freak are we, Mr. C? 'At that time, the architect was very sensitive to photos being taken and the possibility of them being used for commercial purposes, so we added the following: “Permission to photograph the library reading rooms and other public areas of the building may be granted by the library director or her designee. Photographs and videos may not include library signage or the library logo, and photographing may not disrupt library customers’ use of the library. Library employees on duty may not be photographed for political campaigns. Fees for commercial photographs of the library may be established by the library director, subject to the approval of the Board of the Trustees.”" Sheesh. Rubbish.TAGS
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Gold Coast Cultural and Civic Precinct Masterplan [Super Colossal] SAVE
"By designing a defended cultural and civic precinct as a hybrid - “is it a building island or is it a landscape island?”- this bold scheme presents a new urban type for the Gold Coast whilst simultaneously recalling the ancient islands in the Laguna Veneta such as the Isola Murano and Isola San Michele." From the jury report on Marcus and team's project. Love the first image.TAGS