2012-02-09
post/17292394841
video 00:59:07
Tim Bowditch: “This time-lapse was produced to document Simon Terrill’s Balfron Project.”
2012-01-24
post/16425008238
quote 21:48:05
“ We have to stop building cities as if everyone is 30 years-old and athletic. ”
2012-01-19
post/16119957832
photo 16:59:05
Stacking mugs showing Richard Rogers’ architectural drawing of Lloyd’s London (2011).
The single mug is £14.95. The stacking mugs appear not to be for sale any more.
(via less-ismore)
2012-01-05
post/15368784036
quote 23:54:06
“ Architecture devolved into a battle between two fantasias—nostalgia for the 19th and 18th centuries versus nostalgia for the mid-20th-century avant-garde. ”
Kurt Anderson: You Say You Want a Devolution? in Vanity Fair.
2012-01-03
post/15252692781
quote 20:15:05
“ The appearance of the building has created what Travers calls a “new mental geography” of the capital. For example the presence of the Shard makes suddenly obvious what every London taxi driver already knew: that the quickest way from Westminster to the City is via the South Bank. ”
Tony Travers, director of the Greater London Group at the LSE, quoted in Robert Booth’s good overview of London’s Shard: a ‘tower of power and riches’ looking down on poverty in The Guardian. (Also covered: its role as a “soft power” play by the Qataris.)
2011-08-07
post/8584657661
quote 04:21:48
“ Once you understand that there’s an architectural politics baked into technology design, it’s easy to look at the protocols and interfaces and say: I can see what will happen to the people that use this, and therefore the world they inhabit. ”
Quinn Norton: Ways in which I am old.
2011-08-02
post/8365926639
photo 03:02:05
Mmm Skyscraper, I love you • 24gotham:
Another shot of the Lever House I featured yesterday. This shot standing in the courtyard looking up with a 12mm.
Photograph: Devyn Caldwell.
2011-06-24
post/6874993875
photo 20:43:22
From Stylepark’s article, Anyone who can build with peas and toothpicks must be a genius, The Dymaxion Car in front of 30 St Mary Axe in London. Photograph © Gregory Gibbons.
