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Renderings of the proposed Transbay Transit Center, San...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:20:33 +0100

Renderings of the proposed Transbay Transit Center, San Francisco, as the tower approaches final approvals:

This is a rendering; the tallest tower on the left is the proposed Transbay tower, vertical ghost on the right is possible tower site.

iamdanw, via headlessness (from 2009): London Sight-lines....

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:08:00 +0100

iamdanw, via headlessness (from 2009):

London Sight-lines. These are the places where construction is restricted to protect the most interesting views of famous landmarks.

What’s interesting about looking at this now is that the Shard is clearly in the middle of several of the Protected Vistas, but perhaps it being behind rather than in front of St Paul’s helped it achieve planning permission.

Housing in towers, a 1964 proposal by Buckminster Fuller and...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:30:33 +0100

Housing in towers, a 1964 proposal by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao for Harlem in upper Manhattan.

(I’ve seen the proposal for a dome over Manhattan, but these cooling-tower like structures are new to me.)

Monument to Civilization: Vertical Landfill for...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:05:06 +0000

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?”

(via)

Looking up at a building’s foundations and the street...

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:32:00 +0000

Looking up at a building’s foundations and the street above:

Foundations for larger buildings are generally adaptations or combinations of the four types used at our intersection. One is on a floating foundation, another on friction piles, a third on bearing piles, and the fourth on piers.

From David Macualay’s Underground, via Things Magazine.

"Context - Local Area Developments"

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:19:00 +0100

More Euston goodness from the Archigram Archival Project, via Swiss Cheese and Bullets.

Euston Station Redevelopment, London (Taylor Woodrow) at...

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:15:09 +0100

Euston Station Redevelopment, London (Taylor Woodrow) at the Archigram Archival Project.

I’ve been posting a lot of these images to my ffff ound instead, but at some point I really want to write about Euston’s redevelopment, so this one ends up here, where it can get tagged.