Category Archives: architecture

3D Paris

Posted on May 15, 2013 by things magazine

Paris 3D is a new venture from Dassault Systemes, long time purveyors of all forms of simulation, including the Geovia ‘virtual planet’ software (used in the mining industry, and looking a little bit like Minecraft in the process) and flight … Continue reading →

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Catching up

Posted on April 26, 2013 by things magazine

A perpetual process / Pitagora Suichi, ‘A collection of Rube Goldberg-like machines’ / the brilliance of the Google Street View Hyperlapse (via Kottke) / short termism: MoMA Will Raze Tod Williams Billie Tsien’s Folk Art Museum. Images by Michael Moran … Continue reading →

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Here be dragons. And burgeoning creative industries.

Posted on March 14, 2013 by things magazine

Battersea as blank canvas for purely speculative architectural exploration: atelier zundel cristea transforms power plant into architecture museum (thanks to Socks Studio for the link). This is of course render-bait, speculation reduced to a showcase for a studio’s visualisation chops, … Continue reading →

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‘Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves’

Posted on March 13, 2013 by things magazine

Penn Station, But Deliver Us From Grand Central: ‘These intercut scenes, from Hollywood films shot in New York’s Pennsylvania Station before it was demolished in 1963, or on stage sets representing it, form a composited narrative set in Manhattan’s great … Continue reading →

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Higher and higher

Posted on February 28, 2013 by things magazine

Author and architect Carlos M Teixeira’s ‘Maharishi . The Ultimate Skyscraper’ is a cautionary fiction about an endless tower in Sao Paolo. Published in edition 2 of the Paperwork Journal, it was accompanied by illustrations created Mister Mourao (Vasco Mourão) … Continue reading →

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Monster Soup commonly called Thames Water

Posted on February 12, 2013 by things magazine

Home on the Thames, a journey through a changing riverscape. The walk culminates in Vauxhall, and this brief history of Brunswick House, a wonderful Georgian building marooned in traffic, is a good primer for how architecture, use and society shift … Continue reading →

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Stealthy and secure

Posted on February 11, 2013 by things magazine

Building sites reveal unseen London, photographs by Andy Spain of the facades and vistas that are temporarily revealed by wholesale redevelopment in the (usually cramped) City of London / London’s Heygate Estate, currently in the process of demolition, sparks the … Continue reading →

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Wood and mazes

Posted on February 8, 2013 by things magazine

Moby is busy making the shift from musician to amateur architecture blogger to presenter. He’s no Meades, but the short film, Moby Celebrates LA Architecture is designed to whet your appetite for an upcoming exhibition, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern … Continue reading →

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Futurism is fickle

Posted on February 4, 2013 by things magazine

Futurism is fickle in its means of presentation. London-based architects Foster and Partners have announced a partnership with the ESA to ‘3D print structures on the moon‘, positing a lunar architecture more akin to the Flintstones than the Jetsons. What … Continue reading →

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Art and drones

Posted on February 1, 2013 by things magazine

The drone has become a pervasive feature of contemporary art practice. As more and more questions are being asked about the legitimacy and efficacy of the various RPV programmes around the world (but mostly, it has to be said, the … Continue reading →

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