I spent decent amount of time online and I asked myself why not make something good of that time. In that time of being online and surfing I often wander to architecture related sites, blogs, forums etc., so I decided to try making weekly blog posts with interesting links to cool stuff on internet.
Let's see for how long can I go (TWSS!).
Week numero uno
1 | For starters, something funny. A comic on matter of architecture criticism.
2 | Next up is a quote from 'How to Be an Architecture Critic'
….But we are their best audience. Owners, clients and residents come and go, but architecture lives on, acting a role in the life of the city and its citizens long after the original players are gone. We talk (in person, on blogs) about homes as investments, building sites as opportunities, unsold condominiums as an economic disaster, but all of that real-estate chatter sidesteps the physical reality of projects built and unbuilt. Rather than just talking about money, we should also be talking about height and bulk, style and sustainability, openness of architecture and of process. Design is not the icing on the cake but what makes architecture out of buildings, what turns them into places we want to live and eat and shop rather than avoid. Architecture critics can praise and pick on new designs, but their readership has lately been too limited. We need more critics — citizen critics — equipped with the desire and the vocabulary to remake the city.
3 | 'The Manhattan That Never Was'. I think that tittle says enough
“You may be amused,” intones the narrator of Reiser + Umemoto‘s new short film ‘Manhattan Memorious’, “that yesterday’s wonders, worlds of tomorrow, have been delivered, have become our everyday.” The wonders to which the film refers are the ghosts, here reconstituted, of Manhattan’s past speculative futures, those of the daringly polemic (or conversely, as the narrator suggests, silly) masterplans and megastructures that would have cut through the weathered urban fabric with a sublimity and terror that embody the polarizing conditions of the city itself.
4 | Wuppertal Schwebebahn. It's a tram. A floating tram. How much cooler can it be?! If nothing, it has a cool name. Wuppertal Schwebebahn!
5 | And last, but not least. Photos of a 'architecture crime against humanity'
So there is a house with interesting facade in Philly and they decided to build an addition to that house.
All good to this point and you probably have an idea what the addition could look like. But no. It isn't like that. Take a look at nakedphilly.com and see what have they come up with.
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