Category Archives: architecture

Space for the 1%

Posted on February 26, 2014 by things magazine

“Welcome to the world’s largest ever gathering of future astronauts”: Jon Ronson is ready for blast-off. Is Richard Branson? The idea of space as a playground for the rich is a rather dispiriting one, and Ronson softly skewers the self-importance … Continue reading →

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Catching up

Posted on February 24, 2014 by things magazine

Meades is once again on the money: ‘Britain is once again being architecturally cleansed in favour of timidity and insipidity.’ An A-Z of Brutalism. The accompanying programme: Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry / Black Houses / inside the Ruth and … Continue reading →

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Boldly going into the back bedroom

Posted on February 3, 2014 by things magazine

Make your own space. Following on from the space simulator built into a caravan, we trawled around to find this list of ‘five homemade flight simulators‘. Alternatively, if you have a spare £3.25m you could buy this South London mansion, … Continue reading →

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The art of building

Posted on January 21, 2014 by things magazine

Wellcome Images is the hugely welcome arrival of some 100,000 digitised objects from the vast Wellcome Collection. See also The Phantom Museum, a book about Henry Wellcome’s Collection, dating back from the early days of the web when this kind … Continue reading →

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Wired for sound

Posted on January 12, 2014 by things magazine

The City Project has a huge collection of archive photos on its flickr pages / ‘How Bristol’s gracious mansions mask the shameful past of Britain’s links to slavery‘ / art by Simon Stalenhag / Levitation Magazine is a music blog … Continue reading →

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Urban dancing

Posted on January 7, 2014 by things magazine

Dancing Architecture: Víctor Enrich’s NHDK (via World Architects).

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Drones and gnomes

Posted on December 3, 2013 by things magazine

Behind the Facade, Witold Rybczynski on Poundbury (via Providence Journal): ‘[T]here is a lot more to Poundbury than meets the modernist critic’s jaundiced eye. The place is neither anachronistic, nor utopian, nor elitist. Nor is it a middle-class ghetto. In … Continue reading →

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Backhanders and bunkers

Posted on November 8, 2013 by things magazine

The Sochi Project: ‘Sochi is the Florida of Russia, but cheaper. It is famous for its subtropical vegetation, hotels and sanatoria. People from all over the Soviet Union associate the coastal city with beach holidays and first loves. The smell … Continue reading →

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Marching into the mist

Posted on November 6, 2013 by things magazine

A treasure trove of original Airstream information, specification and advertising (see also Tom Bentley’s Airstream story from many moons ago) / Cold War Troglodytism: ‘Henderson originally built a tunnel connecting to the building next door where he worked, but that … Continue reading →

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There’s something moving over there to the right

Posted on October 25, 2013 by things magazine

The Z. Taylor Vinson Collection of transportation materials / Round Houses, a site devoted to a singular pursuit / related, Why our brains love curvy architecture / The Modernist redesigns / Very Visible Cities, speculative urban futures in London, New … Continue reading →

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