*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.
DO NOT LOOK AT HIM OR SHE WILL KILL YOU
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well, it was nice knowing you. Hope she doesn’t make too much mess.
Gurunsi architecture in Burkina Faso and Ghana
Neat as fuck
The phrase ‘wow’ comes to mind.
Looks like our capital’s most glorious monument had a pretty rough NYE.
Like me, it’s getting too old for that sort of thing.
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.
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.
Wolfgang Feierbach
Kunstoffhaus FG 2000
1968
Man, check out this cr-r-r-azy pad!
Some pictures I took in Second Life, while driving Fecal Varnish (my building avatar) through the late Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum.
While the inworld designs weren’t my cup of tea, and those samples that were for sale didn’t feel easily navigable, the sheer amount of work involved in replicating his best-known buildings such as Fallingwater and Taliesn are impressive.
Unfortunately the real-world curators of Wright’s heritage got wind of knock-offs being sold, and, being prize Luddites and first-class idiots, shot the innocent curators of the virtual museum.
The museum may still be open; visit the Builder’s Brewery sim and look around.
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
dresdencodak