what happens in vegas
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“In 1968 Venturi and Scott-Brown did for Las Vegas what Giambattista Nolli did for Rome in 1748: they revealed the essence of a city by mapping it in a new way.” Rustam Mehta and Thomas Moran have made a new reading of the mega-casino in their essay Casino City State for latest issue on Monu Magazine. Analyzing diverse visitors maps of Las Vegas gambling paradises, they suggest that mega-casino’s true ambition is to be rather a city than a big hotel. Providing blurred boundaries, omissions of clear main entrances, organic building perimeter, countless facilities & services, transport facilities, artificially controlled eco-system and weather…mega-casinos function as city-planners offering all kind of dreams that the conventional city does not provide. what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas…
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the birth of vertical shorelines
Where land and sea meet cannot be understood as Carl Schmitt’s concept of the shoreline anymore. Instead, we need an abstraction that matches contemporary notions of space. The shoreline rather appears where ‘land, water but also air meet’, as R.W.G.
the birth of vertical shorelines
Where land and sea meet cannot be understood as Carl Schmitt’s concept of the shoreline anymore. Instead, we need an abstraction that matches contemporary notions of space. The shoreline rather appears where ‘land, water but also air meet’, as R.W.G.
An imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other
^ Historical Geographer Martin Lewis starts his vision on Geopolitical Anomalies of the World (2008) with a brilliant quote about the definition of ‘boundary’: Boundary: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of
An imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other
^ Historical Geographer Martin Lewis starts his vision on Geopolitical Anomalies of the World (2008) with a brilliant quote about the definition of ‘boundary’: Boundary: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of
The Floating Construction Site
^ Floating structure in Portland. photo by John Ewing / Portland Press Herald via news.cnet After two months of low activity in deconcrete, and hyper activity in million other things, yesterday news provided a new architectural speculative hybrid worth
The Floating Construction Site
^ Floating structure in Portland. photo by John Ewing / Portland Press Herald via news.cnet After two months of low activity in deconcrete, and hyper activity in million other things, yesterday news provided a new architectural speculative hybrid worth
Franco & the Olympics
^ Architecture Memory: 184 streets “honoring” Franco times in today’s Madrid, by CeAQUA via público It’s interesting how the city of Buenos Aires has fought back. The day that Ana Botella, Aznar’s wife and democratically un-elected Mayor of Madrid, showed her skills
Franco & the Olympics
^ Architecture Memory: 184 streets “honoring” Franco times in today’s Madrid, by CeAQUA via público It’s interesting how the city of Buenos Aires has fought back. The day that Ana Botella, Aznar’s wife and democratically un-elected Mayor of Madrid, showed her skills
Gibraltar: dropping sea levels
^ Damming of the Strait of Gibraltar, according to the Atlantropa project via dieselpunks ‘Gibraltar as an excuse to excite patriotism’, is how Manuel Chaves brilliantly reads a never-ending conflict on the British exclave and the way it
Gibraltar: dropping sea levels
^ Damming of the Strait of Gibraltar, according to the Atlantropa project via dieselpunks ‘Gibraltar as an excuse to excite patriotism’, is how Manuel Chaves brilliantly reads a never-ending conflict on the British exclave and the way it
rooftop squatting III
^ Another case of extralegal space built on rooftop landscapes that visualizes the circumventions on planning policies. Images form Beijing via ecns Also Check Extralegal Space in Belgrade and Rooftop Squatting in Hong Kong. ^ Beijing man builds
rooftop squatting III
^ Another case of extralegal space built on rooftop landscapes that visualizes the circumventions on planning policies. Images form Beijing via ecns Also Check Extralegal Space in Belgrade and Rooftop Squatting in Hong Kong. ^ Beijing man builds
Totem & Taboo: gay cruising architecture
It is always fascinating to see how architectural icons, in their total innocence, are appropriated by unthinkable purposes that the starchitect behind their conception would have never thought of and maybe – who knows – always wished. When the
Totem & Taboo: gay cruising architecture
It is always fascinating to see how architectural icons, in their total innocence, are appropriated by unthinkable purposes that the starchitect behind their conception would have never thought of and maybe – who knows – always wished. When the
Zone: The Spatial Softwares of Extrastatecraft
Fantastic essay by Keller Easterling featured in Places: “Today urban space has become a mobile, monetized technology, and some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law
Zone: The Spatial Softwares of Extrastatecraft
Fantastic essay by Keller Easterling featured in Places: “Today urban space has become a mobile, monetized technology, and some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law
The Housing Act
The Housing Act is part of “New Publics”, a project for Lisbon Architecture Triennale Close, Closer, by Daniel Fernández Pascual. Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, and originally published in Domus#971 Script: José Esparza Chong Cuy, Daniel Fernández Pascual Photos: Simona
The Housing Act
The Housing Act is part of “New Publics”, a project for Lisbon Architecture Triennale Close, Closer, by Daniel Fernández Pascual. Curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, and originally published in Domus#971 Script: José Esparza Chong Cuy, Daniel Fernández Pascual Photos: Simona
On Ramps and Penguins
^ London Zoo. Top left: Lubetkin and Tecton’s Penguin Pool, 1934 via shrapnelcontemporary. Bottom left: current state by Iqbal Aalam. Top right: design for the new pool via bbc. Bottom right: new pool via modern british architecture On
On Ramps and Penguins
^ London Zoo. Top left: Lubetkin and Tecton’s Penguin Pool, 1934 via shrapnelcontemporary. Bottom left: current state by Iqbal Aalam. Top right: design for the new pool via bbc. Bottom right: new pool via modern british architecture On