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Amsterjam by Evan Wakelin.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:00:05 -0500

Amsterjam by Evan Wakelin.

A City and a Book by Furuya Takahiro via gurafiku.

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:05 -0500

A City and a Book by Furuya Takahiro via gurafiku.

FRAKTUR by Berg via Editions of 100.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:25:07 -0500

FRAKTUR by Berg via Editions of 100.

99 Cent by Andreas Gursky.

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:00:06 -0500

99 Cent by Andreas Gursky.

Imaginary Pool Section by billychung via drawingarchitecture.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:00:06 -0500

Imaginary Pool Section by billychung via drawingarchitecture.

24-Hour Museum by AMO and Francesco Vezzoli via OMA. For the...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:00:05 -0500

24-Hour Museum by AMO and Francesco Vezzoli via OMA.

For the 24-Hour Museum, AMO collaborated with Prada and artist Francesco Vezzoli to transform the 1937 Palais d’Iéna into the venue for a social and architectural laboratory, featuring an opening night party, public and press tours, and visits by schoolchildren. AMO designed the mise-en-scene of the modernist pavilion, by Auguste Perret, using the various spaces to stage - and interrogate - the three types of museums spaces that are predominant today.

1. Experimental/contemporary

A large pink neon cage turns the main space into a psychedelic concrete and metal nave. It hosts the majority of Vezzoli “statues” - foamboard classical figures with the faces of contemporary celebrities stuck on - and the gala dinner.

2. Classic/propagandistic

The curved concrete stair features a single centerpiece “statue” in front of three huge red curtains. For the cocktails.

3. Forgotten/storage

Inspired by inaccessible but precious museum archives, and located in a hidden part of the ground floor, this space - which AMO called the “Salon des Refusés” - is used as a small scale disco, accessible through a row of green velvet curtains.The result is an ephemeral “total museum” that hosts a sequence of rituals unfolding through the 24 hours.

Editorial Design Book Cover by Hideki Nakajima via nkjm-d.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:06 -0500

Editorial Design Book Cover by Hideki Nakajima via nkjm-d.

A Study of Fragment by Marcus Rothnie via drawingarchitecture.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:00:05 -0500

A Study of Fragment by Marcus Rothnie via drawingarchitecture.

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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:00:06 -0500

Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed by Leo Calvillo via Flickr.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:00:05 -0500

Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed by Leo Calvillo via Flickr.

Imaginary Jerusalem by Stefan Davidovici Like a supersonic...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:01:06 -0500

Imaginary Jerusalem by Stefan Davidovici

Like a supersonic aircraft leaving behind its own sound, the mental representation of a city can be so powerful that the actual city – though strengthen by its own reflection – is simply left behind.

New York and Paris are perhaps the most ubiquitous examples of such cities in the modern world. They are enchanting, amazing cities with strong personalities – but they are present in the imaginary of the whole world in a way other places, equally enchanting and amazing, are never going to be. They leave the realm of reality to enter the domain of myth.

Jerusalem has been there since long before Paris and New York even came to exist. It’s not for nothing that a city is holy for three monotheistic religions. Suspended above the edge of the endless desert, Jerusalem is literally half on Earth and half in the sky.

So much Jerusalem identifies with its own myth that the image of a Celestial Jerusalem, accompanying its actual material model from the heart of Heaven, exists from the times of Babylon.

Real Jerusalem is still there, I know it well, I used to live there, yes it is the same city sung and missed for millennia, fought for and claimed by Jews and Christians and Muslims alike, but it lives its actual life with its normal rhythms, with its buses and markets and living rooms and streets and trees. Interrupted sometimes by breathtaking views or by glimpses of ages-old history. Living its normal life, though under the shadow of a conflict so deep, so old, so multifaceted that it looks as natural as the strong light bouncing on the stone of the city.

Jerusalem is still there but I am far from it now, and my own nostalgia for it is merely my own reflection of the same age-old nostalgia for Jerusalem. Far from the actual Jerusalem, I am free to explore the other Jerusalem, the imaginary one, and to reflect into imaginary spaces the amazing depths and spatial richness of a city unlike any other.

The Whitney Prevaricator by Chris Ware for the 2002 Whitney...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:05 -0500

The Whitney Prevaricator by Chris Ware for the 2002 Whitney Biennial via TATE ETC.

Structures 3 by atelier olschinsky, via Behance.

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:00:05 -0500

Structures 3 by atelier olschinsky, via Behance.

Landscape Prosthetic by Rohan Rathod in collaboration with...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:03:00 -0500

Landscape Prosthetic by Rohan Rathod in collaboration with Steven Ko and Erica Tong.

A prosthetic for the way the landscape is perceived, the Zoetrope Cable Cabin is an architectural device that records the slope of the landscape and translates it into a visual signal. As the landscape gets steeper the Drive wheel rotates quicker and through a theoretical system of sprockets and gears, causes the Zoetrope fins to rotate faster, this way providing a visual depiction of the gradient of the ground through time. Intended for for group usage, the cabin is split up into the activation, discussion and reflection levels each providing an alternate learning experience. Designed to function in a similar way to an aerial tram, the cabin has a track that cuts through the breadth of Frick Park, Pittsburgh.

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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:00:05 -0500

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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:05 -0500

Aerial View of Midtown Manhattan Looking West from East River,...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:22:17 -0500

Aerial View of Midtown Manhattan Looking West from East River, July 1944, by Andreas Feininger via eralsoto.

Nine Block, a generative output of 3x3 grids composed from a set...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:40:30 -0500

Nine Block, a generative output of 3x3 grids composed from a set of 16 primitive shapes, by Jared Tarbell.

Plot Ratio, A Plan to Combat Congestion in London, London County...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:01:51 -0500

Plot Ratio, A Plan to Combat Congestion in London, London County Council, 1957 via Archive of Affinities.

The Blue Cone by sandellsandberg via Treehotel.

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:50:00 -0500

The Blue Cone by sandellsandberg via Treehotel.