2012-10-30
“The depiction of a promise”
Are you familiar with Baidu? The Chinese can’t show satellite images of their cities so they model these detailed axonometric cityscapes.
Baidu shows very beautiful representations, similar to hand-drawn maps. They’re like the depiction of a promise, telling you that it’s a beautiful country to live in, whether it’s true or not.
Michael Stoll interviewed for Domus. Previously, previously.
(Source: domusweb.it)
2012-02-16
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Centraal Beheer, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 1967-72. Axonometric drawing.
That’s nice, that.
2011-06-07
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An axonometric drawing of the new Tottenham Court Road ticket hall, complete with art by Daniel Buren, from the page for the project on Art on the Underground. (thanks, Chris.)
2009-07-22
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The Manhattan Airport Foundation suggest putting an airport on Central Park. It’s an amazingly pretty and professional site, for what must surely be a prank.
(It’s probably a bit worrying that my first technical objection is that airport runways are better aligned east-west than north-south, isn’t it?)
