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(Image by De Urbanisten and Studio Marco Vermeulen.)To launch its 14th anthology, Water, Alphabet City has organized a series of events this week in Toronto, two of which are the HYDROCity symposium and its accompanying exhibition at the University of Toronto. Another event is a lunchtime talk in which Jeroen Bodewits …
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(MEtreePOLIS, by HWKN and which appears in Kerb 17: Is Landscape Architecture Dead?, envisions a future, genetically modified Atlanta, Georgia. Watch Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner give a tour of their ?fantasticity? here.)Coinciding with the next issue (#18) of Kerb, the annual landscape architecture journal edited by students at RMIT, Melbourne, …
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(Image by KMA.)Speaking of augmented game spaces, here is an interesting interactive installation set to come online at the of the month in three UK cities. Created by KMA, Great Street Games will be a ?huge, participatory, high-tech athletics tournament? in which participants in Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough compete against each …
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(All photos via Urbangolf.fr.)Actions: What You Can Do With The City finally comes to Chicago. Organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the exhibition features ?experimental interactions with the urban environment [that] show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city.?These ?actions? tend to be modest in scale …
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(New Switzerland. All images by Waterproof.) Maldives' Underwater Cabinet reminded us of an exhibition mounted by a group of architects, designers and artists for EXPO.02 in Switzerland. Working under the collective name Waterproof, they imagined a(n) (im)possible scenario wherein the water level in Switzerland rises to 1400 meters (4600 feet), turning the …
Pruned 2009-10-19 23:52:00
(The very media savvy President Mohamed Nasheed of Maldives held a government cabinet meeting underwater to call attention to the real possibility that his low-lying island will disappear due to sea level rise. Among the deluge of press coverage of the event, we read a brief mention about a climate change …
Pruned 2009-10-15 21:47:00
(Image by Jakub Szcz?sny.)Here's an art installation from Synchronicity, an architecture/arts festival in Warsaw, Poland. Conceived by Jakub Szcz?sny as a member of the design collective Centrala, it consists of a floating island fitted with exercise machines. When the machines are being used, water gets pumped from the polluted Vistula River …
Pruned 2009-10-13 19:21:00
(We can't be certain if this is a scale model of an irrigation canal or an actual distribution nodal point, an art installation or a gardener's plaything, Mesopotamian or Army Corps of Engineers. But it's absolutely marvelous. Photographer and source unknown.)
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(Image by Fei-Ling Tseng. Download original version.)On November 6, 2009 at the University of Toronto, InfraNet Lab, in collaboration with Alphabet City, will oversee a daylong symposium and launch an accompanying traveling exhibition called Hydrocity, which will be ?devoted to studying the relationship between urban forms and the hydrological systems in …
Pruned 2009-10-05 20:29:00
(Reconfiguring a mountain in Trysil, Norway, by Ecosign. Via InfraNet Lab.)So Chicago lost its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Rather than brood about what might have been or haggle over alternatives to the massive dose of money the city would have been given to stimulate its limping finances, …
Pruned 2009-10-02 04:58:00
Another fascinating project from Paisajes Emergentes in collaboration with Lovisa Lindström, Sara Hellgren and Sebastian Monsalve. Called Clouds, it's a proposed installation to be located on every town that will be flooded by the Ituango Hydroelectric Dam megaproject in Colombia.(Image by Paisajes Emergentes with Lovisa Lindström, Sara Hellgren and Sebastian Monsalve.)Having …
Pruned 2009-09-24 04:35:00
(Emschermündung Sewage Works, Dinslaken, Germany. Photo by ?cowboyofbottrop?. Source.)We've set up a new Flickr set and stuffed it with photos of egg-shaped sludge digesters culled from the web, simply because they're absolutely beautiful. They're undoubtedly photogenic — with or without dramatic lighting; in color or black & white; by itself or …
Pruned 2009-09-23 01:34:00
(Continuing a visual meme of late, above is a thick vermillion fog re-landscaping the city of Sydney anew. Writes The Sydney Morning Herald, ?Sydneysiders have woken to a red haze unlike anything seen before by residents or weather experts, as the sun struggles to pierce a thick blanket of dust cloaking …
Pruned 2009-09-21 04:41:00
(A false-color Landsat satellite image of farms in northwest Minnesota. Through classes offered in nearby colleges, farmers can learn how to download satellite images of their farms from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, and more importantly, how to interpret them to better gauge the health of crops and manage their …
Pruned 2009-09-20 04:29:00
There are still two weeks left in this year's International Garden Festival at the Jardin de Métis/Reford Gardens in Quebec, but organizers have already sent out the call for proposals for next year's festival. The theme will be Paradise.(One paradise spotted at 35°56?24?N 83°56?20?W.)From the competition brief:Since time immemorial mankind has …
Pruned 2009-09-19 03:10:00
(Less sinister, at least we think so, than Artigas' vapor is Olafur Eliasson's Yellow Fog. In this permanent installation, fog rises up the sides of the Sammlung Verbund in the center of Vienna, Austria, shrouding it from street level to the roof. Fluorescent tubes embedded in the pavement emit a yellow …
Pruned 2009-09-18 22:16:00
(In Chemical Misunderstanding, Gustavo Artigas vented orange smoke from out of the air shafts of a subway station under construction in Istanbul. A video of the ?public intervention? can seen here.)
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(Or some cloud formations in some primordial garden, as photographed by Axel Antas. See also Vapour City.)
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(Still from Real Remnants of Fictive Wars V, 2004, one of five films documenting the work of Cyprien Gaillard. Here, on the grounds of an old French château, ?a billowing cloud of white smoke erupts from the central tree, infecting its branches with fungal-like spores.?)(Still from Cyprien Gaillard's Real Remnants of …
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(Pascual Sisto, Untitled (red), 2006. Source.)
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