The decision to host the 1972 Olympics gave Munich the opportunity to redevelop the Oberwiesenfeld area. It had been used as an airfield up until 1939 when the Munich- Riem airport opened. The area became largely idle despite the Nazi plans to have the area serve as the central slaughterhouse and marketplace. The goal was […]
As opposed to cities like Berlin and Sarajevo in previous posts, Beijing seems to have lost no momentum following their Olympic games in 2008. Instead of letting their facilities lay to waste, several have been repurposed – and not always in conventional ways. For example, the Water Cube, designed by PTW Architects with Arup, has […]
Swarm Expression
Link here “Carlos Bueno, author of a kids’ book about understanding computers called Lauren Ipsum, describes what happens when the cadre of competing bots that infest Amazon’s sales-database began to viciously fight with one another over pricing for his book. It’s a damned weird story. “
“From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price” Canadian Center for Architecture collection and archive Design Museum Mute
Joan Busquets Interview Joan Busquets is a Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard and the former Head of planning in Barcelona This is another way you can view the video if the former does not work – http://sustainablecities.dk/en/actions/interviews/joan-busquets-geography-history-and-diversity-0
http://www.good.is/post/carbon-nanotubes-will-make-buildings-that-move/
FRAC Centre Orléans 02.12.2011-19.02.2012 A project by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea in cooperation with ETH Zurich
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/08/vancouvers-poverty-olympi_n_453593.html This is something interesting to see, the 2010 winter games in the Canadian government back in 2006 estimated that the cost of the games to the tax payers would only be C$2.5 billion. In reality the games spent closer to C$6billion and now many citizens are now homeless. Though in retrospective the amount spent […]
Most newsworthy events fall into two general catagories; News and Media Events. News events are those events which can be represented as a set of information (the score was 5 to 4 in the Soccer game last night). These events can be represented as points in time. A media event is the coverage and […]
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