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- Studio: Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks
[Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks, Advanced Studio, University of Waterloo, Fall 2009.]
Today we are having the final review of the “Frozen Cities, Liquid Networks” Studio at the University of Waterloo. We will be sharing some of the work here in the coming week or two, but in the meantime, here is the brief. Please email us [...]
- Student Works: Smart-Ark
[10 living, breathing, sweating towers form a line of defense in a fragile estuary. All images by Nicholas Szczepaniak.]
Acting as a defense barrier, these 10 massive towers form a line in the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, UK. They are the vision of Nicholas Szczepaniak, a recent graduate of Westminster, and the winner of the RIBA [...]
- Invisible Superprojects
Erie Canal in Lockport, New York
Where are the super-projects? This is the question Louis Uchitelle asks in his recent article “Entering the Superproject Void” (New York Times). In retracing the continuum of America’s greatest hits in large scaled public works (from the Erie Canal to the Hoover Dam, from the transcontinental network of the Interstate [...]
- Reservoir Effect
[Great Lakes region: Lake effect snow operates in alternating bands of rising warm air and clear bands of falling cold air. Taken December 5, 2000 image using NASA's SeaWiFS satellite.]
In a recent drive back from Syracuse to Toronto, I was struck by the inevitable presence of snow in Buffalo. No snow before Buffalo, or [...]
- Post-WPA Symposium – Open notes
[The WPA 2.0 jury as curated by cityLAB - from left to right: Stan Allen, Thom Mayne, Marilyn Taylor, Cecil Balmond, Liz Diller, Walter Hood.]
Here are my iphone notes from the Symposium. My fine colleagues at The Dirt have done far better in capturing the full spectrum of the day… but I give you here [...]
- Global Food Networks: Countries Buying Countries
[Greenhouses being erected in Jittu, Ethiopia. Simon Norfolk for The New York Times.]
Two weeks ago, in an article entitled ‘Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism‘, the New York Times reported that financially wealthy but resource-poor nations in the Middle East and Asia are attempting to ensure food security by buying up large tracks of [...]
- Wet Borders: Microslums and Meanders
[On Migingo Island, 300 fisherman and traders are served by 4 pubs, several brothels, and a pharmacy.]
Migingo Island, home to some 300 residents, sits precariously within Lake Victoria along the watery border of Uganda and Kenya. Its undetermined origins declare that either: a) two Kenyan fisherman settled there in 1991, or b) a Ugandan fisherman [...]
