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- LandFab, or Manufacturing Terrain
[Zealandia topography. Considered by many a lost continent (micro-continent), Zealandia sank after separation from Antarctica some 130 million years ago. Separated or future originary?]
Editors Note: File under Glacier / Island / Storm, a studio run by BLDGBLOG at Columbia University GSAPP. Island Edition.
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Gilles Deleuze, in “Desert Islands,” distinguishes between two types of islands, continental (separated) [...]
- Student Works: Suburban Defense
[Tom Vigar's (very) defensible suburban enclaves complete with bunkers and missile silos. All images by Tom Vigar.]
Caught somewhere between No-Stop City and an Everyday Virilio-ism, Tom Vigar’s Master of Architecture thesis “Subtopian Dreams” at Sheffield University posits a shared economy (and landscape) of suburbia and military sites. Arguing the inevitable links and interdependence of one [...]
- Making a Better Place
[Electric Parking Lot in Israel: www.betterplace.com]
With the cost of a barrel of oil dipping below $40 a few weeks ago (recall this summer’s price of $140), imagining a post-oil future may not be on everyone’s mind . This is not the case for venture-backed Better Place and its partners. Since 2007, Better Place, led by [...]
- Moving House(s)
[Moving houses in Malartic, QC as part of a 18-month long neighborhood relocation program.]
This summer, two houses were moved from the south end of Malartic to the north. These are part of a 23 home “demonstration phase” anticipating a total of 170 houses to be relocated. Malartic, Quebec (Canada) is a 3700 population town that [...]
- Big Sort
08_07_07_suburbs
Political partisan-ship in the US no longer simply defines ideas and voting patterns.
Americans are increasingly choosing to live among politically and socially like-minded neighbours, further entrenching the growing political and intellectual divides in the nation. This ability to self-isolate is, of course, best exercised in suburbia. Cities, by nature diverse, encourage constructive confrontation with vast [...]
- Mosscaping
[David Benner in his lawn in Solebury, PA (via NY Times]
Mr. Benner, 78, a retired professor of ornamental horticulture, is also a longtime practitioner and advocate of what he calls “the moss approach” to lawn maintenance. “Every time I give a lecture, I go into this spiel: get rid of your grass, and grow moss,” [...]
