Archive for September, 2009
Low2No Finalist Videos
A quick update on the low2no competition in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki. The finalists’ presentations have been posted on the low2no website. I won’t critisise here except to say they all meet the challenge of the brief in a provoking way, and are all worth watching in their differing styles. c_life : City as a Living Factory [...]
This Gaming Life by Jim Rossignol
Its always good to start a book with a bang and This Gaming Life does just that. In May 2000 I was fired from my job as a reporter on a finance newsletter because of an obsession with a video game. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. From here the stage [...]
David Byrnes’ Perfect City
A great article by David Byrne about his perfect city, If a city doesn’t have sufficient density, as in L.A., then strange things happen. It’s human nature for us to look at one another— we’re social animals after all. But when the urban situation causes the distance between us to increase and our interactions to [...]
Facade Projection
This is an amazing facade projection. The project was by Daniel Rossa and urbanscreen.com (via)
Finnish Architecture.fi
Finnish Architecture.fi website has had a revamp and had added some new and much needed content. Hopefully it will now stay abreast of Finnish architeture news and be updated regularly unlike the old site. But where are the rss feeds? update: I checked back today (17.09.09) and they have a feed now. Nice work!
Glasgow Shed
I haven’t read a better or more direct and telling criticism of any building as Entschwindet und Vergehts’ review of Zaha Hadid’s Glasgow Museum of Transport for an awfully long time. It’s the sort of criticism which reminds me why we need Architecture bloggers who don’t have to scrape the floor to get copy. It [...]
Blogdesign update
So inspired by a whole host of single column simple sites many on tumblr I updated my site mostly following the daily meh‘s beautiful minimalism. As usual its a hash but doing it got in the way of posting articles so I’ll come back to the rough edges later when I get back into the [...]
Rosetta Stone 2.0
The Rosetta disk is an archive of 1,500 languages that can comfortably be held in the hand. The underside of the disk has, .. over 13,000 microetched pages of language documentation. Since each page is a physical rather than digital image, there is no platform or format dependency. Reading the Disk requires only optical magnification. [...]
9/11 Reconstruction
National Geographic shows a computer reconstruction of the impact of the planes on the twin towers.
Helsinki Remapped
A wonderful post and map (seen above) from Locating Helsinki about the coast at the centre of Helsinki and how it has changed, and Darren found a list of islands some of them shown on the image above which have disappeared. Another set of large changes are due to take place over the coming years [...]
Jätkäsaari Low2No Competition Winner
The Team of ARUP , Sauerbruch Hutton , Experientia, Galley Eco Capital with their entry ‘c_life – City as living factory of ecology’ have won the Low2No Competition for a block development in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki. It will be Finland’s first Carbon neutral district and the competition was run by Sitra an innovation fund and though [...]