photourbanist
Photographer, writer, urbanist
Jan 25
Jan 20
(via Envisioning Buildings: reflecting architecture in contemporary art photography | e-flux)
ENVISIONING BUILDINGS
Public Programs
28 January–22 April 2012
MAK
Stubenring 5
1010 Vienna, Austria
Jan 13
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
My remix of Oramic sound samples and a London field recording. For the Science Museum’s remix competition.
Jan 11
“Leave Buenos Aires by highway in any direction and you soon enter that endlessly flat expanse of agricultural fertility known as the pampa húmeda, the damp plain—six hundred thousand square kilometers of lush grasslands spreading out across the Provincia de Buenos Aires and beyond, contained by no political unit, and fading into the more sparsely populated and arid lands that abut the Andes to the west.”
In Pursuit of Salamone
via CABINET
Jan 08
30-story hotel erected in 360 hours. Built near the Dongting lake, Hunan Province by Chinese construction company Broad Group.
via Xian Min Zhang / differentenergy
Jan 07
Doug Rickard #41.779976, Chicago, IL. 2007. 2011
pictures made from Google Street View.
(via MoMA | New Photography 2011 )
George Georgiou, Yeniköy-Village-Artvin. 2007
(via MoMA | New Photography 2011 )
A Balloon for the Barbican
“Musarc have been invited to host a salon as part of the Barbican’s OMA/Progress exhibition. For the event, we have commissioned a new film by sound artist Davide Tidoni which explores sonic impulse responses inside and around the Barbican by popping a balloon.”
The first work in this series, A balloon for Linz, received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2011 and can be seen above.
(Listening with headphones recommended).
BANG! – Being the building
A MUSARC salon at the Barbican
Thursday 26 Jan 2012, 7.00pm
Dec 24
Our Street. Auckland, December 2011.
Merry Christmas // Happy Holidays
Nov 03
Oct 29
Today is the 25th anniversary of the opening of London’s M25 motorway.
At the time of opening it was the world’s largest ring road at 117miles (188km). It is now the second largest.
The pictures above are from a booklet issued by the Department of Transport to celebrate the engineering achievements of the road’s construction. Including one of the bridges at Runneymeade designed by Arup. The bridge was designed to match one already in place designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
The full booklet can be seen at:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/openingbooklets/
Joe Moran commented in the Guardian that: “the inauguration of the M25 was the last major road-opening to generate real public excitement. The queues at both ends of the final section were much longer than usual because drivers were itching to be the first to complete an orbit.”
