2012-03-14
post/19305571448
photo 21:05:06
![Monument to Civilization: Vertical Landfill for Metropolises:
Skyscrapers are meant to wow, to impress. But other things within cities are also impressive, [Lin Yu-Ta] says: “New York, for instance: If we put its annual garbage on a area of a typical tower footprint, we’ll get a 1,300 meter high landfill tower, which is about as three times tall as the Empire State Building (450 meters). Isn’t that spectacular?”
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Monument to Civilization: Vertical Landfill for Metropolises:
Skyscrapers are meant to wow, to impress. But other things within cities are also impressive, [Lin Yu-Ta] says: “New York, for instance: If we put its annual garbage on a area of a typical tower footprint, we’ll get a 1,300 meter high landfill tower, which is about as three times tall as the Empire State Building (450 meters). Isn’t that spectacular?”
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2011-01-21
post/2861221419
photo 21:15:00
The 2016 Olympic Games identity is a logo that dances on the sand - a post on the Rio games identity at Eye Magazine.
It’s probably because I’m a fan of hard-edges, sharpness and blocks of colour, but I absolutely hate this logo, whereas the London 2012 design (which everyone else seems to hate) strikes me as pretty good.
2010-02-04
post/371130662
quote 22:05:35
“ Byelaw 6 has been amended to remove the total ban on “dumping rubbish” that rather amusingly implied that using a litter bin at a station was a breach of the Byelaws. The addition of the phrase “except in receptacles specifically provided by the Operator for those purposes” means those wishing to help keep our stations tidy can now sleep easy at night. ”
2009-06-23
post/128695001
photo 13:14:54
A double-page spread from Dominant Wave Theory, a book by Andy Hughes showing what ends up on beaches (via)
