April 2011
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How History Killed the Suburb - Kaid Benfield -... →
Not particularly convincing.
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“Don’t get me wrong, I like iconoclastic, swoopy structures that look like...”
– Philanthropist Offers $300M Prize for Not Hiring Frank Gehry - Mindblowing - Curbed National
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The Zydeco Trail in Louisiana - Horseback Riding... →
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Outlawing New York's Imagined Neighborhoods →
The alleged law would forbid making up silly new neighborhoods.
Is this another form of architecture fiction??
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Cities Versus Suburbs Is The Wrong Debate | The... →
The issue is where are walkable urban places being built, and they are being built in both central cities and the suburbs surrounding them. My 2007 survey of the walkable urban places in the top 30 metros showed 50 percent of them were in central cities and 50 percent were in the suburbs. In the metro area with the most walkable urban places, the Washington region, 70 percent of the...
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A Whole Foods Fight in Boston →
Christy Pardew, spokeswoman for Whose Foods, Whose Community?, an activist group protesting the forthcoming Whole Foods, says the issue is “keeping multinational chains out.” According to Ms. Pardew, the addition of a high-end grocery store to Jamaica Plain will result in higher rents, pushing low-income residents from the neighborhood. “It’s a term that real estate...
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Architecture Fiction and its supposed political... →
Bruce Sterling follows up BLDG BLOG’s take on Hypothetical Development Organization (and discloses he’s got one of our T-shirts and “no use-value critic is gonna stop me from wearing it.”) More seriously, he reiterates his brief on behalf of what he’s called speculative culture.
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Can arts and culture save Detroit? | Detroit Free... →
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Quality Vintage :: Vintage Signs & Lettering →
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New Orleans Seeks HUD Grant for Housing Plan →
The proposal, which calls for transforming the 1940s Iberville complex in downtown New Orleans into a denser mixed-income neighborhood, with town houses and new low-rise buildings interspersed among the existing three-story apartment blocks, would result in a total of more than 2,400 units of housing on and around the site.
It is one of several finalists vying for a share of $61 million in...
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Who Made Google's Map Pin? →
That pin was designed by Jens Rasmussen, a senior software engineer at Google, who co-founded a mapping start-up that was later purchased by Google in 2004. When Google bought his company, Rasmussen came along as one of the engineering leads of the project, which we now know as Google Maps. A Google spokesperson told me by e-mail that “Jens spent a lot of time thinking about what was appropriate...
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The New York Apartment - Will the Chelsea Hotel... →
The longtime residents of the Chelsea Hotel are playing a game of which is worse.
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Central City houses featured by HBO's 'Treme' meet... →
A follow up to that story: David Simon speaks out here.
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Hidden Gems of LA, an architectural tour - Core77 →
Including Rosslyn Hotel, a Frank Lloyd Wright property in Malibu, and the Brewery Artist Complex.
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Prominent Houstonians' ideas on what to do with... →
I find it totally beyond imagination that the Astrodome could cease to exist. This article is a must-read for anybody who believes, as I do, that the Dome is a crucial piece of physical history.
Hello? Anybody?
Anyway: They shoulda asked The Art Guys for ideas, too.
(Thanks Molly!)
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Andrade Valdez’s video Untitled – Monumento Series is a chaotic, rapid-fire visual compendium of the monuments that occupy Lima’s traffic circles and pedestrian malls. They range from the forgotten to the futurist, the Spanish Mediterranean to the brutal, the Modernist to the I-don’t-know-what.
The banality of public monuments: Miguel Andrade Valdez on Lima. « C-MONSTER.net
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Deli Blues - by Vox Tablet > Tablet Magazine - A... →
A once-thriving congregation in Greenville, Miss., now can barely gather a minyan on Shabbat, but it’s managed to keep a popular tradition—a deli-luncheon fundraiser—alive for nearly 130 years
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Augmented Museums Are Becoming a Reality →
The Andy Warhol Museum layer displays important Warhol points around the city of Pittsburgh, Jan Rothuizen’s ARtours layer augments the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Sander Veenhof and Mark Skwarek’s “uninvited” exhibition is on display at MoMa in New York City.
Paul Stork and Ebelien Pondaag of Fabrique, members of the Layar Partner Network are presenting a paper titled Augmented Reality...
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The New American Ghost Towns - Douglas A. McIntyre... →
These are the American Ghost Towns Of The 21st Century. Each has a population of more than 10,000 along with vacancy rates of more than 55%, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.
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FLEETING PAGES | A pop-up book emporium of... →
In essence, Fleeting Pages consists of taking over (taking back??) one of the spaces, left empty by a failed big box bookstore in Pittsburgh, for one month, starting April 30th, and filling it with independent & self-published work of all kinds, book arts, workshops, events, and..?(insert your ideas here)?……
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Virtual ARt Exhibitions Powered by Layar Opening... →
There are already two Augmented Reality art exhibitions (in 3 locations) using the Layar platform so far this month.
The first runs from April 7-May 1 in Philadelphia, PA as part of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA). This exhibition is a collaboration between Breadboard, a hybrid program at the University City Science Center dedicated to exploring the intersection of...
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