Archive for May, 2011
Lacking Concept of Time or not
The Amondawa tribe in Amazon discovered in 1986 have no concept of abstract time according to a study from the University of Portsmouth and the Federal University of Rondonia in Brazil. We’re really not saying these are a ‘people without time’ or ‘outside time…Amondawa people, like any other people, can talk about events and sequences [...]
That Goal
Mikael Granlund goal against Russia in the 2011 Ice Hockey World Championship Semi Final.
South Harbour Competition
The south Harbour right at the centre of Helsinki is subject of an open international design competition running until september of this year, see southharbour.fi. This is the most difficult, controversial area to develop in Finland at the moment. Most everyone agrees that it needs a major overhaul but what to do? Since the Herzog [...]
Locating the Guggenheim
So the news that Helsinki and the Guggenheim foundation are making a feasability study together to bring a Guggenheim to Helsinki has had a little time to sink in. Allowing first reactions to fall away and think about the different scenarios that a Guggenheim coming to Helsinki might produce will not only help shape our [...]
The Bin Laden Lair
The Bin Laden Compound a sizeable terrorist-modded urban villa has every chance to become a dark tourist hotspot in Pakistan. A gallery and google map can be found of it and of course the wikipedia page. The US military apparently built a full size mock-up to practice for the raid.
Algorithm Architecture
What method, what system, does an architect use to design a building? How are programmatic needs and context – with their degrees of freedom and constraints – translated into architectural design? Regardless of their complexity, the tasks and decisions involved can be formalized as an algorithm. As such, algorithms provide a framework for articulating and [...]