Projected by architect Claude Strebelle
This building is strangely familiar. It reminds me of the PSIS building down on Featherston Street, Wellington.
Gurunsi architecture in Burkina Faso and Ghana
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I’ve started a game called Occupy White Walls, a sort of MMO art gallery building thingy. The grind is starting to hit; you basically have to excavate space one 4-metre cube at a time, and raise money by throwing open the doors as often as possible. Some people have been here long enough to create visual cacaphonies; I would too, but there doesn’t seem to be all that much modern art or abstract expressionism available. If you do play, please visit the gallery of hiatus (me.)
*Wow, an article about Yugoslav “spomeniki” monuments that actually explains who built them and why, instead of continually freaking-out about how alien and goofy they seem nowadays.
http://failedarchitecture.com/mortal-cities-and-forgotten-monuments/
Well worth reading.
Police Center Operative Headquarters, 1979-1983
Belgrade, Serbia
Architect: Spasoje Krunic
*I find myself regretting that this ISN’T the Belgrade Police Headquarters
I find myself regretting that this thing is tethered to the ground, not airtight, and thus unable to lift off and dominate the galaxy.
Caux Collective Redirects: Storage Container Housing
In an age when many of the world’s largest cities face housing problems, with over-populated urban sprawls and first-time buyers finding it harder than ever to get themselves into the ultra-competitive housing market, an unlikely proposition has been brought to the table by a number of creative architects who have, for a change, been thinking inside the box.
If you’d like to find out more, head over to the Inspirez website, where you can find this article in full, including further information.
Container City also has some interesting information and examples of using containers as housing modules, in more urban settings.
Wolfgang Feierbach
Kunstoffhaus FG 2000
1968
Man, check out this cr-r-r-azy pad!
Richard Rogers, Sketch
Ah… the rounded rectangle house. I tried making one of these in Second Life years ago, but was put off by fiddly alignment and high prim costs. (The rectangle, itself, required 8 prims, and if the end wall was solid, that was 9 prims at least per wall.) You’d probably get better results these days with mesh.
The inside of a mall is as close as we can conceive of what the inside of an arcology might look like at the present time.
When you think about that, it’s really rather sad. We can imagine a city or suburb compacted into a single(ish) building, but the interior is never anything but depressingly commerce-centric. Commons? Parks? Forget ‘em, we’re going with the neon mall cheepnis theme.
All aboard the snekbus
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