Peter Zumthor’s Bruder Klaus Chapel on the landscape: a stark minimalist beauty, drawing attention to material and texture. / designboom
Mike Tyson’s abandoned mansion photographed by Danny Wills. Wish there is more info on this or a background commentary. / aja
Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, November 17, 1904 - December 30, 1988) was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.
Cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders, and pyramids / but does it float
Final Wooden House by Sou Fujimoto Architects / Archinect
The grown-up answer to childhood fantasies of the ideal treehouse.
There are no categorization of floors, walls, and ceilings here. A locality that was thought as a floor transforms into chairs, ceilings, and walls from different perspectives. Floor levels are relative and people reinterpret the spatiality according to where they are. People are three-dimensionally distributed in space and will experience new sensations of depths. Spaces are not divided but is rather produced as a chance occurrence within fusing elements. Inhabitants discover various functions within those undulations. It is a place akin to nebulous landscape.
IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View - a very thought-provoking article on Google Street View’s cameras casting an unseeing gaze on the everyday, revealing a whole lot more than just privacy concerns, even creating a kind of “noisy amateur aesthetic” for the author.
This very way of recording our world, this tension between an automated camera and a human who seeks meaning, reflects our modern experience. As social beings we want to matter and we want to matter to someone, we want to count and be counted, but loneliness and anonymity are more often our plight.The detached gaze of the automated camera can lead to a sense that we are observed simultaneously by everyone and by no one.
How do you undo a wrong, like in this case, fix the suburbia?
You can:
- infill, infill, infill.
- convert, convert, convert.
- stack, stack, stack.
- do a Bladerunner.
- do an UP.
- do a human conveyor belt.
- ignore humans altogether.
Or heck, why not just burn them and have a party at it!
The Control Master: An animation by Veer & Run Wrake featuring CSA Images (a separate stock art affiliate of the Charles S. Anderson Design Company, creates images inspired by the highs and lows of art and printed culture). This is to video like what sound sampling is to music. A brilliant comic-book 2-dimensional collage effect.
Halftone City, USA. A peaceful metropolis of family values and space-age dreams. Mild-mannered blonde Dorothy Gayne secretly protects its citizens from harm. But dangerous new technologies abound. What happens when a powerful device falls into the hands of scientist-turned-villain Doctor Moire? Who will rescue Halftone City from this oversized creep? Watch The Control Master and find out!
Fluid forms are still sexy.
Non-winning entry for Four Towers in One Competition by Morphosis / ArchDaily
The tableaux of the series depict situations clearly surreal but that could be real on a set; furthermore, they are rooted in the local symbolic imaginary. The boundaries between documentary and fiction become very fluid, and we are left wondering whether our perceptions of the real world are indeed real.
Nollywood is the name for the film industry in Nigeria, it is said to be the third largest film industry in the world. Photographer Pieter Hugo visited Nollywood and made these surreal photos. (Visit his site for more of these stark and haunting photographs.) / today and tomorrow
![If You Want To Be Like Me- Just Train! [V. Koretskiy, 1951]
The Soviet Union wanted strong citizens who could work for the benefit of the Motherland. The BGTO training programme was introduced in 1931 and included gymnastics, sprint and long distance running, long and high jumps, discus, javelin, swimming, cross-country skiing and sharp shooting. The boy in the poster above is carrying a book of BGTO standards.
Cold War propaganda posters / Designer Daily](http://10.media.tumblr.com/jdiJZmLxTqqyrxghizKbPKB5o1_500.jpg)
If You Want To Be Like Me- Just Train! [V. Koretskiy, 1951]
The Soviet Union wanted strong citizens who could work for the benefit of the Motherland. The BGTO training programme was introduced in 1931 and included gymnastics, sprint and long distance running, long and high jumps, discus, javelin, swimming, cross-country skiing and sharp shooting. The boy in the poster above is carrying a book of BGTO standards.
Cold War propaganda posters / Designer Daily
