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- Terrestrial Discontinuities
[In 2007, an ill-conceived 6,000 mile network of energy corridors in the US West represents the collective ambition of Department of Energy, Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, and the Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service. The project is called the West-wide Energy Corridor.]
Following a trail from our Dust Bowl post last week, we [...]
- Particulate Swarms
[Radar image of Sydney during the dust storm of September 2009 - its largest in 70 years.]
Editors Note: File under Glacier / Island / Storm, a studio run by BLDGBLOG at Columbia University GSAPP. Storm edition.
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“It is time / It is time for / It is time for stormy weather” – The Pixies
Storms deal in [...]
- Student Works: Trawling the Thames / Fish ‘n Ships
[The Tower Bridge Seafood Market explores a fictitious urban scenario where direct access to the sea provides the ability for fish farming to become free-ranging. All drawings by Jonathan Blair.]
Last month I had the pleasure of attending final reviews at University of Michigan Taubman College for two days. I saw an incredible range of work [...]
- Medius Terra / Aqua
[Agriculture and Fisheries in the Mediterranean. Zoï Environment Network.]
We were excited to see that MedSec and UNEP have released a series of recent maps on various aspects of the environment dependent upon Mediterranean Sea. The series is titled, appropriately enough, “Environment and Security in the Mediterranean.” They have documented Agriculture and Fisheries, Migration, Water, Population, [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- Energies and Boundaries
[AD: Energies: New Material Boundaries.]
A new issue of AD was recently published titled ENERGIES: New Material Boundaries, edited by Sean Lally of WEATHERS. This edition focuses on the rich, yet overlooked, territory of design that foregrounds the effects of material energies on boundaries of environments. Boundaries are taken to mean atmospheric thresholds that are the [...]
- Power of Ecosystems / Ecosystems of Power
[Latitude: 42.03280 Longitude: -71.61592 and Half-Mile Radius Series of 3 16x16 in. Lightjet Digital C-Prints by Adam Ryder.]
Having recently endured a power outage during one of the coldest days of the year in a country that begins above the 45th parallel, we are bluntly reminded of the power of (electrical) power. There continues to be [...]
- Science Machine
[Chad Pugh\'s Science Machine.]
Science Machine from Chad Pugh.
What can be said about Pugh’s video beyond itself. A universe where hair follicles and islands are similar issues at different scales… A geography at once everywhere and nowhere … A cyclical environment of managed natures… A network of habitats distinct and yet intertwined.
- Habitat Interlocks
[Josh Keyes, Interlock #3 (2006)]
Quantifying the impact of human habitats on animal habitats is complex and ever-shifting. Only when a freak incident of a bear, or wolf, or deer wander into our developed environment – and a strange tussle between fumbling law enforcement officers and a primal instinct-driven beast ensues – are we reminded on [...]
