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- Bracket 3 [at Extremes]
Bracket 3 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate the potentials when situations extend beyond norms – into the extremities. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated [...]
- All Creatures Great & Small
[Animal Architecture Awards 2011]
Our Friends at Animal Architecture are launching the inaugural Animal Architecture Awards. The competition seeks "exciting projects that engage the lives, minds and behaviors of our alternate, sometimes familiar companion species — insects, birds, mammals, fish and microorganisms – each one with unique ways of world-making. As our society re-examines its place [...]
- The New Gold and its Unconventional Reserves
[Utility Poles from the Ottawa Area]
Barrick Gold’s recent bid to acquire copper miner Equinox Minerals suggests that the bullion giant sees copper as the new gold. Both minerals are currently valued at record highs. The price of gold has doubled in the past two years on account of investor fears of inflation and political turmoil. [...]
- Cycling Infrastructure
With warmer weather just around the corner those of us who didn’t brave cycling through the winter months are preparing our two-wheeled transit for another season. We are not alone. In cities across North America bicycle ridership is on the rise. Montreal and New York City have both increased their ridership by 35 and 28% [...]
- Postcards from a Future
[Scenario: The iconic City office tower is now high-rise housing. Originally converted into luxury flats, the block soon slid down the social scale to become a high-density, multi-occupation tower block. The Gherkin now worries the authorities as a potential slum. Refugees from equatorial lands have moved north in search of food. They make their [...]
- Student Works: Edible Corridors
[A proposal for the ONE Prize by Drew Adams, Fadi Masoud, Denise Pinto, Karen May, and Jameson Skaife titled Growing the Hydro Fields approporaites hydrocorridors as cultivatable public lands.]
Coming off the contagious energy of the Foodprint.TO event last weekend, and the whirlwind of conversations (now thankfully on video) on Toronto’s food infrastructures, it was a [...]
- Foodprinting.TO
[Foodprint Toronto logo.]
We were excited to catch word a while back now that the fine folks that cooked up Foodprint NYC – Nicola Twillley and Sarah Rich – were exploring future locales to extend the foodprint series. Thankfully, Toronto has proven productive enough territory in which to host the second edition. And even better is [...]
- Urban Incubators: Xiamen
[Xiamen, China: London Met, Unit 8-CHORA’s site of enquiry on large-scale carbon emission reduction.]
Increasingly, carbon emission issues will need to be addressed at a very large, even regional and urban, scale to offset a downward spiral. And nowhere is this more pressing than in parts of rapidly-developing China. London Metropolitan University’s Unit 8, led by [...]
- Carp: Invasive Species and Waterway Augments
[Here, and then gone. Recently, no Asian Carp were found among the more than 100,000 pounds of fish collected during a week-long fish kill on the Little Calumet River. Where are they now?]
Editors Note: File under Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories, an InfraNet Lab seminar at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design / University of [...]
- Corn Belt 2.0: Syncing the Starchscape
[Mountain of Corn.]
Editors Note: File under Feedback: Architecture’s New Territories, an InfraNet Lab seminar at Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design / University of Toronto. Guest post and images are by Matthew Spremulli. Matthew will be continuing this work in his MArch thesis, which will be blogged at the ever-expanding reField.
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Corn has unquestionably become [...]
