Pinboard: bookmarks for urbanscale tagged 'architecture'

"We’re trying to see if you can create a hybrid typology. What happens if you crossbreed the Copenhagen courtyard with the New York high-rise? [...] New York is ideal for cycling."

via:mayonissen urbanism architecture design copenhagen (nyc)
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Miracle on 33rd Street: Penn Station
architecture culture design urbanism cities transport publictransport train station via:mayonissen (nyc)
january 2011 by Urbanscale

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Zaha Hadid and parametricism as the architectural logic of late neoliberalism

Hatherly magisterially takes parametricism as practiced/trumpeted by ZHA to pieces, in a zillion words...yet stops weirdly short of making the final (and, I would argue, obvious) connection between it and neoliberal practices like e.g. HFT.

architecture theory latecapitalism parametric knowyourenemy zahahadid from delicious
november 2010 by Urbanscale

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Urban Omnibus: Clip-on Architecture: Reforesting Cities

Getting to this inexcusably late. Combine this becoming scheme with the sort of frameworks I've spent so much time thinking about and you've got a responsively green urban fabric of impressive potential.

urbanism architecture futures ecosystems
july 2010 by Urbanscale

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METRO Group Future Store Initiative
retail architecture
july 2010 by Urbanscale

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Container Atlas: a Practical Guide to Container Architecture (Competition: five copies of Container Atlas to be won)
architecture containerized
june 2010 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Lunch Shop for Ironworkers Rises With Skyscraper

Talk about pop-ups.

(nyc) temporary architecture
june 2010 by Urbanscale

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The Economist: Green.view: How to be urban

In my view, the mistake here is to assume that the necessary solutions for 2030 need primarily to be about new architecture. It's also the case that you're not terribly likely to get clear thinking about mobility in a contest sponsored by Audi.

architecture urbanism futures
june 2010 by Urbanscale

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Hinge_Dimension

Real-time reconfigurable space.

architecture
may 2010 by Urbanscale

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Urban Dream Management

Hella Hernberg's master's thesis.

berlin architecture urbanism psychogeography adaptivereuse
may 2010 by Urbanscale

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ArchDaily: Forrest Fulton Architecture: Lace Hill

There are one or two ideas in here I really like, and it's nice to see a re-emergence of ye goode olde megastructure idea, however green-inflected. I'd like to start thinking about what mobility means in a place like this.

architecture nexturbanism megastructure
may 2010 by Urbanscale

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quotesque | anil bawa cavia: Moriyama, Dwelling

So nice to see the Moriyama House - SANAA's experiment in microurbanism that I so admire - brought into the context of my favorite Heidegger piece.

architecture dwelling tokyo SANAA moriyama heidegger
may 2010 by Urbanscale

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Dezeen: Goldberger by Tervhivatal

This is very nice. Reminds me rather of that wheeled cube-thing in "New York Nomadic Design" lo these many moons ago.

interiors architecture design tervhivatal
april 2010 by Urbanscale

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build it faster!

Not precisely sure what's going on here, but I like it.

space servicedesign architecture
april 2010 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Beautiful Brutes

...and are they ever! This was the moment I realized our building was going to be landmarked.

(nyc) brutalism architecture kipsbay personal yes
april 2010 by Urbanscale

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Archigram Archival Project

A million times yes. An incredible resource: for all my books on Archigram, this is the first time I'm seeing a lot of these images.

archigram 1960s architecture urbanism yes againyes
april 2010 by Urbanscale

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The Architecture Machine: The Little Girl Rant

Derek on FOG on the AIA. Again: Clay: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." Yes, yes and again yes.

frankgehry institutions architecture
april 2010 by Urbanscale

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Tough Love: In Defense of Brutalism

Maximum yes, via Mimi Z.

architecture concrete materiality modernism brutalism guh
april 2010 by Urbanscale

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ELEMENTAL: Quinta Monroy

I've been looking for this for awhile - I think I saw it mentioned at the AA in London last time I was there. Anyway, delighted (and not particularly surprised) to see it turn up at Open Structures.

architecture urbanism opensystems chile
march 2010 by Urbanscale

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Design Observer: Why Nicolai Ouroussoff Is Not Good Enough

Alexandra Lange, wonderfully, submits Nicolai Ouroussoff to a closer reading than I'd've been able to stomach, cutting through him like the proverbial hot knife through butter. (For the record, I miss Herbert more and more every year.)

(nyc) architecture critique nyt ouch
march 2010 by Urbanscale

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MetaFilter: QR Code Facade

Nice work, Alex.

urbancomputing architecture tokyo
january 2010 by Urbanscale

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[Incredible image of ad-hoc shelter amid Haitian devastation]

Via middlespaces.net.

architecture disaster publicspace adaptivereuse haiti
january 2010 by Urbanscale

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Steven Holl Architects: Linked Hybrid, Beijing

Ostensibly, a "twenty-first century porous urban space, inviting and open to the public from every side. Filmic urban public space; around, over and through multifaceted spatial layers, as well as the many passages through the project, make the Linked Hybrid an 'open city within a city.'"

beijing architecture urbanism publicspace stevenholl
december 2009 by Urbanscale

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Interactive Architecture dot Org: Nicholas Szczepaniak – A Defensive Architecture

Extraordinary.

architecture interestingtimes posteverything
november 2009 by Urbanscale

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Scouting NY: New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver

Absolutely incredible series in which a film location scout revisits the locations in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and compares across time. This was the New York I remember from my childhood: so much more textured in many ways.

(nyc) architecture history film sidewalking
october 2009 by Urbanscale

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Vague Terrain: Cognitive Maps and Database Urbanisms

"These...logics and relationships...resist conventional forms of representation[,] and to operate within them requires the development of tools of analysis and design that account for the multiplicities of scale and complex logics that are found within the contemporary city."

urbanism architecture maps designingdesign urbancomputing urbansystemsdesign complexity politics
october 2009 by Urbanscale

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PART
helsinki architecture urbanism
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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Attack of the Algae: The Latest Trend in Eco-Architecture

Meejin Yoon's building-scale (and then some) algae-fueled bioreactor. Take that, viridians! See also http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/21/reenvisioning-bostons-stalled-project-as-bio-fuel-growing-eco-pods/

architecture ecosystems meejinyoon boston yes mudflats
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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41 Cooper Square: Thom Mayne's Brazen Stair-Obsessed Marvel

Heh heh heh. This may be the most interesting piece of architecture to have been completed in New York since I've lived there...but only time will tell. Despite everything, I kinda love Thom Mayne.

(nyc) architecture morphosis
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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Podcast | dConstruct 2009

Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

augmented architecture API cities community connoisseurship crime crowds democracy kultur economics futures geography identity infovisualization infrastructure interface location maps mobility neighborhoods networks opensystems publicspace privacy socialnetworking swarm transit technosocial ubicomp urbancomputing urbanism wayfinding
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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Bruce Ratner Tries to Save Atlantic Yards With New SHoP Architects Design

Whoah - teeth from New York Magazine? Whodathunkit.

(nyc) brooklyn bad atlanticyards urbanism architecture knowyourenemy
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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Zeitgeist week '09

If you happen to be in NYC or London next week, there's an imperial god-tonne of amazing stuff going on. I dumped all my links in one post for easy reference. Enjoy!

(nyc) london brooklyn urbanism urbancomputing architecture conferences conflux sidewalking psychogeography technology yes againyes
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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Digital Architecture London Conference 2009

Mmmm, tasty.

architecture interactiondesign urbancomputing mattwebb usmanhaque london
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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Den of Geek: In praise of the sci-fi corridor

Via Randy. In one or two places I'm not quite sure what point the author of this piece is trying to make - the language is oddly stilted - but I sure am grateful for the loving way in which these images have been assembled. (Especially those from films I've forgotten entirely, like "Saturn 3"!)

design architecture film sf
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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Morphosis Architects: Four Towers in One Competition

Nobody can accuse Thom Mayne of being boring. But do I buy the argument here? (And how many times can you say "Chinese puzzle," anyway? Methinks the days of the "locally resonant form-generating conceit" are over, or should be.)

architecture urbanism shenzhen prd china morphosis
september 2009 by Urbanscale

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An Open Letter to Nicolai Ouroussoff

RTFO. This needs to be printed in 300pt type & nailed to the door of the NYT.

(nyc) architecture yes againyes
august 2009 by Urbanscale

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mañanarama

"Notes on failed development, bogus modernization, and other urban or architectural dreams deferred. A weblog by Mario Ballesteros."

architecture urbanism yesterday'stomorrows
june 2009 by Urbanscale

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NYT: In Athens, Museum Is an Olympian Feat

Did Bernard Tschumi get something right?

architecture kultur athens history
june 2009 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Repurpose-Driven Life

"Retrofitting Suburbia."

adaptivereuse architecture interestingtimes malls retail
june 2009 by Urbanscale

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D'Blog of 'Israeli: All The Joy I See Through These Architect's Eyes

Amazing (and appropriately mega-)post on the evolution and representation of "Judge Dredd"'s Mega-City One.

cities megacityone architecture yesterday'stomorrows yes
april 2009 by Urbanscale

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NYT: Cities Deal With a Surge in Shantytowns

The camp condition.

architecture urbanism mobility interestingtimes
march 2009 by Urbanscale

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servo

Why are architecture firm sites always so ass? Great stuff here - Vibronic Environments/PS1, Lobbi-ports - hard to get at.

architecture bookproject
march 2009 by Urbanscale

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Korkeasaari Zoo by Beckmann-N'Thépé and TN+

"Architecture disappears in favour of controlled geography, like the resurgence of a neighbouring landscape." Huh?

helsinki landscape architecture
march 2009 by Urbanscale

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a few zines

!!! Via Jamie Mowder.

(nyc) architecture zines kazysvarnelis markshepard mimizeiger yes
february 2009 by Urbanscale

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landscape urbanism bullshit generator

Via EGR. Nonpareil.

architecture urbanism language fun
february 2009 by Urbanscale

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Brand Avenue: Building a Better Big Box

A comprehensive reworking of the generic Big Box as infill community. Genius all the way through.

architecture parking adaptivereuse conceptual
february 2009 by Urbanscale

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Soft Façade: Steps into the Definition of a Responsive ETFE Façade
everyware ubicomp urbancomputing architecture materials ETFE
february 2009 by Urbanscale

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Curbed: P.S. 1 Architecture Competition Runners-Up Blow Up the Party

I like this *so* much better than the proposal that actually won. Sigh.

(nyc) architecture ps1 summer
january 2009 by Urbanscale

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boiteaoutils: Spiculation

Via teh Haque. Mmmm. Will need to be unpacked, but tasty.

architecture urbanism complexity
january 2009 by Urbanscale

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Eikongraphia: OMA, AMO, MAO
architecture urbanism designingdesign remkoolhaas
january 2009 by Urbanscale

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globeandmail.com: Demise of the Miestation

Via Archinect.

architecture modernism mies sad montreal 1968
january 2009 by Urbanscale

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Building Dwelling Thinking
heidegger space architecture theory
january 2009 by Urbanscale

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Braided Urbanism

A proposal for Shanghai Expo 2010. Lovely, but I wonder if the desiderata stipulated here were used to generate a set of parameters that in turn generated this solution, or if the elucidating logic was tacked on ex post facto?

parametric architecture urbanism shanghai
january 2009 by Urbanscale

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Cutting words from the master

God love Karl Lagerfeld.

fashion architecture lazaha karllagerfeld
january 2009 by Urbanscale

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A Parametricist Manifesto

Whoah there, hoss: "We consider furniture not in terms of isolated objects but as a pre-eminent space-making substance. Our design efforts need to encompass the domains of interior design, furniture design, and even product design...Our handling of interior furnishings as dynamic swarm formations, or sometimes as a continuous surface/fluid mass, is geared towards the detailed elaboration of the continuously differentiated fields described above." (Via teh Varnelis.)

theory parametric architecture space furniture swarm design designingdesign
december 2008 by Urbanscale

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Archinect: Victory Gardens, or the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Architecture

Wonderful, thoughtful, incisive piece here from Kazys, and I bet he's on the money about a lot of this. This CCCPArch thing at Columbia sounds *very* interesting.

architecture infrastructure interestingtimes kazysvarnelis personal
december 2008 by Urbanscale

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Pleix: Sometimes

One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. The perfectly-resolved aesthetic of a self-assembling nanotechnics. A September 11th aura so strong it tightens my chest. A nod at "2001." A music video for Kid606. All of the above. (via La Boyer)

nano architecture design kid606 pleix numinous
december 2008 by Urbanscale

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Bryan Boyer: Housing APIs

A lovely definition for the nonspecialist, too.

architecture API bryanboyer
december 2008 by Urbanscale

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Stamen: Data visualization, SOM, and the Transbay Tower in San Francisco

A year and a half old, and still the most ambitious façade-based interactive project I'm aware of.

stamen everyware infovisualization sanfrancisco architecture som urbancomputing
december 2008 by Urbanscale

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Peter Dalsgaard: Warsaw MoMA (unrealized)

Makes use of thermochromatic concrete to render information on surfaces.

materials architecture
october 2008 by Urbanscale

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MRGD: Urban Lobby

AKA "Morphê." I like both the sense of a frontal assault on the West End's iconic but not terribly beloved Centre Point building, and the implied compliment.

architecture london reticulatingsplines urbanism
october 2008 by Urbanscale

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Megastructure-Reloaded Berlin

Ugly site, but how could I not adore an exhibition on "visionary architecture and urban design of the Sixties"? HOOAH.

urbanism architecture archigram megayear1967 berlin 1960s
september 2008 by Urbanscale

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Boutique Monaco, Seoul

Another new-school Gangnam building, this one by Minsuk Cho; smells like teen Koolhaas. The site, however, is what all Web material about buildings should be and do. Top marks.

seoul architecture minsukcho
september 2008 by Urbanscale

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Urban Hive, Seoul

Kim In-Cheurl's Gangnam tower is really, really nice. See also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arcticpenguin/2806463413/

seoul architecture
september 2008 by Urbanscale

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BBC News: Shipping container hotel opens
london architecture adaptivereuse
august 2008 by Urbanscale

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Pask Present
art cybernetics architecture gordonpask
may 2008 by Urbanscale

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Bryan Boyer: Your new Capitol

Bryan redesigns the ground of democracy itself for his thesis project. Rather impressive.

democracy architecture DC capitol bryanboyer
may 2008 by Urbanscale

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suckerPUNCH

Jackpot link: Impeccably-curated collection of contemporary aesthetic artifacts, across disciplines.

architecture design art yes
may 2008 by Urbanscale

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of this we are sure: Providence in the FAIL of a Sparrow

"But if you want to start talking about some serious cross-disciplinary pollination then you better take both sides of that disciplinary divide seriously." Hot diggity.

ubicomp architecture materiality complexity
may 2008 by Urbanscale

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