Category: architecture

  • Toast Gearbox

    by Amelia (a Cloud Farm experiment).

  • Space Elevator II

    Tomás Saraceno, Space Elevator II (working title), 2009. © Tomás Saraceno Via we-make-money-not-art

  • David Harvey on the right to the city.

    David Harvey speaks about ‘the right to reshape the city in a different image’. He presents the city as a manifestation of our heart’s desire; ‘In remaking the city we remake ourselves. The question of what kind of city do we want cannot be divorced from questions about what kind of people do we want to…

  • Get a Job.

    The best job description I’ve ever read is currently up on Super Colossal. If only I was an architect. oh yeah, and a youth.

  • Counterweight

    I just watched a very interesting architecture documentary (Great Expectations, SBS). Among the diverse array of incredible buildings was this beautifully simple counterweight by architect Antti Lovag.

  • E.A.T.

    I was googling E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology when I came across this collaboration for the Expo ’70 Pepsi Pavilion in Osaka, Japan. The outside of the building was covered by a water vapour cloud sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya. The dome shaped objects in the foreground are six-foot high moving sculptures by Robert…