Archive for October, 2009

Beatbox it today_Incredibox

| October 30th, 2009

Had a bad day? There is something to cheer you up! Check out this site and become a beatbox singer today! Enjoy it everyone!

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Destroy to create_Lucio Fontana

| October 29th, 2009

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Lucio Fontana was a sculptor before he became a painter. He is the founder of the spatialism movement (Movimento Spaziale), more »

Party Wall 03_Solid Objectives

Another finalist from the competition upto35 is a firm called Solid Objectives. Their idea of this student housing project is to place the main building facade not facing the street but perpendicular to the street and divide half the site for building the other half for greenery. Overall, it consisted of a party wall and a garden.

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Steven Holl’s new book on Urbanisms. This book, not like other books on Steven Holl Architects, is single authored by himself.

In the book he mentioned “urban planners need to realize that the experiential power of cities cannot be completely rationalized and must be studied subjectively.” He then sketches out “urban planning into the domain of uncertainty.”

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