Archive for the 'architecture' Category

but does it float x geoff manaugh

English architecture blog.

"With the watercolor, in the quickest way, I could shape a volume, cast a shadow, indicate the direction of the sun in a very small format. And I could carry these things around because I was always traveling.”

so you've erected the enormous towers on each side of the deep valley, deeper than any valley previously bridged. how do you get a pilot cable from one tower to the next? previous solutions have included: attaching the cable to a kite and flying it over (e.g. niagara falls suspension bridge), carrying one end by helicopter (e.g. akashi kaikyo bridge) and floating one end on a boat (e.g. brooklyn bridge). the brains behind the siduhe bridge decided to ignore all those options and break another record instead. they attached the 3200ft cables to rockets and accurately fired them over the valley, becoming the first people to do so.

Video commentary for the New York Times.

Set of 97 photos of the Columbian Exposition by the Brooklyn Museum's first fine arts curator, William Henry Goodyear. Mostly of the White City, though there are a few from the midway as well.

Wired's collection of planned and imagined architecture.

Passersby found them on windowsills, on the brick facades of abandoned buildings, and in empty lots. The artist imagined these to be homes for a nomadic population he called "the Little People."

The master of speculative, atmospheric, unrealized architecture.

Seems that Larry was doing way better this year than last. Awesome.

Desire Paths would be a great name for a band. Or for anything, really. My association with these is that college was overflowing with them.

nice one, neil. Interesting way to get a general and coyly incomplete view of the planar shape of a city.

Despite a very WAH WAH title, this is a great story about a pretty cool project going on in my former temporary hometown. Used to drive over the Mid-Hudson to get from school to the only decent record store in two counties. Synergy!

Thanks to Leah et Lauren for this - pretty much simultaneously. Frank Lloyd Wright, for all his expertise, didn't seem to know shit about concrete. Falling Waters, anyone?