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Chicken Head Men! With live music from the Fat Possum blues caravan--Paul 'Wine' Jones, T-Model Ford, and Kenny Brown--and a visit from Townes Van Zandt biographer John Kruth
modeling the wtc / via architecture week
virtual walk-thru of the yet-to-be-built
Let's talk about the Freedom Tower for a moment. There has been criticism about the wind turbines that have been proposed for the top of the building: that they won’t work, and that they will produce a ridiculous amount of vibrations. How feasible are the turbines? Could they actually produce 20% of the building’s electricity?
We have researched wind turbines in the past, and it has always brought up the vibration issue, the safety issue, and the bird mortality issue. The WTC is right in the flyaway of migrating birds, and the original WTC was the worst violator in terms of the amount of birds that were killed flying into the buildings at night. They’d either hit it directly or, if it was foggy, get confused and exhaust themselves. So maintenance crews would come out at 5 o’clock in the morning to clean the dead birds off the plaza.
bent ply
St. Petersberg is in the second stage of a program to renovate itskhrushchyovki, the five-story mass-produced housing projects built during the Khrushchev era in the 1950s and 1960s. Judging by the slow rate of progress and the lack of funding for the program, more recent buildings - those built between the 1960s and the 1970s - will be in need of repairs before the first are rebuilt.
coop
henry flynt
"This fantastic, hovering blob will be Archigram's revenge for its many earlier disappointments, for competition-winning schemes that were never realised. [...] And to me it is Archigram at its best. [...] At last we will have a building worthy of their true spirit, albeit 35 years too late. Of course part of Archigram's potency was its ability to initiate by going beyond what was possible, and some might argue that its ideas and messages were not intended to be built. But I believe the fact that this will be built, after so long, gives credibility to Archigram's mid '60s predictions. The amorphous quality of the form, internally and externally, manages to escape the language of a building type, which was one of the major points of Archigram in the twentieth century." Will Alsop*
"Two European scholarship students of the MAK-Schindler Artists and Architects in Residence Program in Los Angeles initially intended to develop a prototype of a "case study house" for the present in their course of their six-months stay. During their investigations of the case study program, the buildings and the circumstances of their development, Roland Oberhofer and Nicolas Février became aware of the changes that Los Angeles had undergone since they were built. Today's problems are not so much related to the necessity of producing additional residential buildings but rather to urban planning approaches such as the issue of public space for the inhabitants of the metropolis."
otis ball super_karaoke_fun_time_band
ariel bender
hot property
preservation age before beauty
RIP clark byers
smile :)
saul steinbergs assistant
the bottle dump