There has been alot of news recently about some Brutalist Masterpieces in the UK, and they always seem to touch a raw nerve with everybody. So it seemed useful to make a post covering three of these buildings because of their contrasting fates.
Northern Shores by Alan Palmer, A history of the Baltic Sea and its Peoples.
This book covers a potentially fascinating topic. The Northern Sea of Europe the Baltic compared to the more famous and glamorous Southern Sister the Mediterranean gets overlooked. But Its a worthy topic for a book to try to redress this balance a [...]
On the Island of Spitzbergen in Svalbards, a remote archipelago 1000km from the NW coast of Norway a doomsday vault is being built. With over 3 million seeds the world seed bank projects aim is to protect the bio-diversity of the planet against natural or manmade disaster. It is managed by the Global Crop Development [...]
YIT are building a development with apartment blocks that tentatively step over the water, the Architects are NRT. This is a first in Finland and it looks like a high quality development. As you can see its a quite suburban in character although so central, so it would be interesting to see the results of [...]
OK after some prevaricating, I’ve added the Geopress plugin (by Andrew Turner & Mikel Maron) and updated this blog with the coordinates of all of the previously mapped posts. I now have a georss feed.
This means that anything I locate in this way you can see in google or yahoo maps. Just take a look [...]
At least I am, eer, blogging that is. My blog was featured in the Virtual Finland website. So thanks to Otto Utti and everybody there for including me on the list of best english language blogs in the finnish blogosphere! You can read the full article here.
There are some new blogs to me on the [...]
The scale and velocity of world population increase over the last fifty years has been unprecedented in human history. Urbanisation, with over a billion people living in cities has become the key signature of this growth, with the urban population for the first time greater than in the country. These facts are startling, if common [...]
Helsinki is moving to the South of Poland by 2071 #
At least if the predictions made by the International Centre for Research on the Environment and Development come true. Something we may have to start to take into account with building design. The triple glazed, highly insulated buildings of Helsinki with large unopenable [...]
Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I’m not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many [...]
