City Building is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.
Ghadames, Libya | Photograph by George Steinmetz
Choice | RadioLab
Like many of you, I think about design a lot. For me, the most interesting aspect of design is its interface with humans. There are many disciplines with this relationship at their center- web design, product design and home design to name a few.
The Success of Structure
City Building is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.
Ghadames, Libya | Photograph by George Steinmetz
Lebbeus Woods was not a registered architect, but he was ten times the Architect of most who are.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Things to know-
1. During the Japanese economic slowdown of the early 90’s a bunch of architects banded together as Atelier Bow-Wow, doing research and occupying their time while there was nothing to build.
2. Now they do great work, I especially love that copper wall.
Atelier Bow-Wow - Split Machiya, Tokyo 2010 The project is actually two mirrored structures, split at the center to allow light to the middle of the narrow site. Polished copper panels on the interior “pull” the reflected images of the opposite building inward, creating the illusion of a single shared space. Via, photos (C) Manuel Oka.
What a trifecta:
Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear whatever you want to call it
Google Maps a Japanese Nuclear Ghost Town via The Atlantic in Focus
Here’s to hoping we are done making Urban Design decisions as bad as this one…but knowing we are not.
The Embarcadero before/after Loma Prieta | Circa 1989
Bay Bridge after Loma Prieta | 1989
