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всемирное наследие
5 June 2012 | Architecture, Lifeform | 1 Comment
A $940 million Chinese clone of one of Austria’s most picturesque villages, the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Hallstatt, recently opened its doors to visitors in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong amidst some controversy.
и без лишних copyrightesque скандалов:
“It was not so controversial. We were only surprised that a small village in Austria was built, and now we are very proud that it happened,” said Hallstatts Mayor Alexander Scheutz, who flew with an Austrian delegation to mark the official opening and signed documents promising future cultural ties.
есть и фотографии.
кварталы
14 May 2012 | Architecture, Lifeform | 5 Comments
снова поселок городского типа:
Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, largely ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, the Walled City became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to Britain in 1898. Its population increased dramatically following the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. In 1987, the Walled City contained 33,000 residents within its 6.5-acre (0.03 km2; 0.01 sq mi) borders. From the 1950s to the 1970s, it was controlled by Triads <...>.
картинка завораживающая. как и другие.
плюс, так же в “Идору”:
“[T]he people who founded Hak Nam were angry, because the net had been very free, you could do what you wanted, but then the governments and the companies, they had different ideas of what you could, what you couldn’t do. So these people, they found a way to unravel something. A little place, a piece, like cloth. They made something like a killfile of everything, everything they didn’t like, and they turned that inside out.” Zona’s hands moved like a conjurer’s. “And they pushed it through, to the other side…”
“The other side of what?”
“This is not how they did it,” Zona said impatiently, “this is the story. How they did it, I don’t know. But that is the story, how they tell it. They went there to get away from the laws. To have no laws, like when the net was new.”
“But why’d they make it look like that?”
“That I know,” Zona said. “The woman who came to help me build my country, she told me. There was a place near an airport, Kowloon, when Hong Kong wasn’t China, but there had been a mistake, a long time ago, and that place, very small, many people, it still belonged to China. So there was no law there. An outlaw place. And more and more people crowded in; they built it up, higher. No rules, just building, just people living. Police wouldn’t go there. Drugs and whores and gambling. But people living, too. Factories, restaurants. A city. No laws.”
“Is it still there?”
“No,” Zona said, “they tore it down before it all became China again. They made a park with concrete. But these people, the ones they say made a hole in the net, they found the data. The history of it. Maps. Pictures. They built it again.”
“Why?”
сквозь мавзолеи
24 April 2012 | Architecture, History | 8 Comments
и хоть старые фотографии, как и любые воспоминания, укрывают осколки избирательным слоем патины — но все равно я не могу избавиться от мысли, что это был очень красивый город.
восьмое чудо шестого света
14 March 2012 | Architecture, History | No Comments
когда-то сказочные палаты и ныне чаруют взор:
This is truly a marvelous thing to behold: a joyous celebration of fairy tale “teremok” Russian-style shapes appearing as a mirage over gently rolling countryside.
Коломенский дворец, оказывается, давно восстановили. хотя больше “для галочки”, как оказалось.
магистрали прошлого
26 February 2012 | Architecture, Geography, History, Lifeform | No Comments
наши артефакты продолжают жить своей жизнью:
They entered through Russell Square station. For 10 minutes, the four of them sprinted along the tracks of the Piccadilly line towards a disused tunnel at Holborn. Their prize: a sight of one of the great trophies of London’s urban exploration scene – the abandoned platforms of Aldwych tube station.
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From Holborn they noticed the rails turn rusty and saw piles of flyers collecting at the tunnel’s edges. And then, like hikers who’d reached the best view from the mountain, they saw the forest-green tiles of the platform edge.
отчаянно сопротивляются любому вторжению:
CCTV operators had alerted British transport police, who had issued a terror alert. After infiltrating 200 sites across the city over 10 years and getting away with it, they were busted.
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Last month TfL applied to issue anti-social behaviour orders which would not only stop them undertaking further expeditions and blogging about urban exploration but also prohibit them from carrying equipment that could be used for exploring after dark. Extraordinarily, it also stipulates they should not be allowed to speak to each other for the duration of the order – 10 years.
звучит ужасно и абсурдно, на самом деле, и я искренне надеюсь, что подобного не случится (а сам тем временем листаю совершенно чудесный блог одного из путешественников).
немая пауза
21 February 2012 | Architecture, Lifeform | 1 Comment
things are getting out of hand
18 February 2012 | AI, Architecture, Art, Internet, Lifeform | 1 Comment
волшебная[1] навигация:
It’s a ship, atop the Southbank Centre in the heart of London, looking out across the Thames.
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I wanted to make the ship move, and I wanted to make it speak, and I wanted to speak back to it, with it, together. To make something.
A Ship Adrift takes the data from that weather station and applies it to an imaginary airship piloted by a lost, mad AI autopilot. The ship is drifting because the pilot is mad or the pilot is mad because the ship is drifting; it doesn’t really matter.
If the wind whips eastwards across the roof of the Southbank centre at 5mph, then the Ship Adrift floats five miles to the East. See the sharp tack the Ship made on the night of the 27th / 28th January? <...>
As the Ship drifts, it looks around itself. It doesn’t know where it is, but it is listening. It’s listening out for tweets and foursquare check-ins and posts on dating sites and geotagged Wikipedia articles and it is remembering them and it is trying to make something out of them. It is trying to understand.
The ship is lost, and I don’t know where it’s going. I don’t know what it’s going to learn, but I want to work with it to tell some stories. I want to build a system for cooperating with software and chance.
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[1] — Джеймс Бридл, автор, так же верно подмечает удивительное, говоря об интернет-ботах, этих заблудившихся дети эпохи.
в табакерке
12 January 2012 | Architecture, Art | No Comments
еще о городах — на этот раз вот так.
как говорили раньше:
Freder: It was their hands that built this city of ours, Father. But where do the hands belong in your scheme?
Joh Frederson: In their proper place, the depths.
из бетона и песка
21 December 2011 | Architecture, Geography, Lifeform | 1 Comment
как и предсказывал Баллард, городские ландшафты удивительны:
Las Vegas’s built environment is full of absurdities. The city’s development patterns showcase a tension between the natural (desert) and the built (the planned communities that litter the landscape).
They also serve as visual symbols of America’s 2008 housing bubble. Anticipating rapid growth, developments fail to connect to each other, confidently (or, perhaps thoughtlessly) leaving the future to fill the spaces between.
завораживающие кадры, satellite imagery via Google Maps, любой достоин рамы в вашей гостинной.
der neue Schloss
16 November 2011 | Architecture | No Comments
бункер из тлена Второй мировой превратят в электростанцию:
The flak bunker on Neuhöfer Strasse in Wilhelmsburg was constructed in 1942, and during the war, up to 30,000 people crammed into the massive structure while Allied bombs rained down on the city. <...> Now, instead of spending more energy and money attempting to bring the 70-year-old relic down, the city of Hamburg plans to convert it into an energy bunker.
Beginning in 2012, a heating and power system fueled by wood chips will begin operation on the ground floor of the bunker. Approximately 3,000 square meters of solar panels will be installed on the roof and south face of the bunker; and waste heat from a nearby industry will be piped into the bunker to be stored and fed into the grid.
к выставке в 2013, говорят, на крыше еще и кафе устроят, и музей в одной из башен. выглядит, по крайней мере, это все зело прекрасно, а изгибами форм напоминает кое-что из былого.