Railway System Remix

The South Korean design studio Zero per Zero produced an interesting work, remixing several railway systems from major cities all over the word. Show at The Kemistry Gallery, London, UK.

NYC Railway Remix

 Hokkaido Railway Remix

Tokyo Railway Remix

 Osaka Railway Remix

Seoul  Railway Remix

 Barcelona Railway Remix

All those maps can be buy online.

AGENDA

Our architect fellow, the amazing Julien de Smedt is presenting his new book AGENDA this Thursday, December 10th at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. Julien and his team will even sign the book for the fans that we are.

Dynamic City Foundation

Dynamic Density - the organic reality behind China's master plan


Neville Mars from the Dynamic City Foundation will give a lecture at Columbia University, NYC on the 6 of October 2008.

Neville is currently in a lecture tour around the world, promoting his new book " THE CHINESE DREAM - a society under construction ", wich i strongly recommande. Its an amazing prospective book about chinese urbanity, questionning paradoxes of China's struggle for change.
More info on Dynamic City Foundation
Those young architects, based in Beijing, are also developing a very good collaborative research wiki Burb Tv.
Among the dozens of projects showed on this plateforme, Neville Mars and his team have been produced some amazing theorical works. The Beijing Boom Tower seems to me as a manifesto. Not to mention the quality of the production, especialy with this amazing oversized interactive model :






All visuals by DCF / Burb TV

Obama Posters on Lafayette Street, NYC

Beautifull posters on Lafayette Street, last Friday. Can't have the chance to make better pictures, all posters were already withdraw on Saturday... Or maybe taken by people, considering that they were real art pieces. By the way, is what someone a knows who made those posters ?

SANAA : Works 1998-2008 at The New Museum

Now on view at The New Museum , in New York city until June 15 2008, a beautiful and very refreshing exhibition about the work of the japanese architecture studio SANAA. An interesting detail is that the radical and minimalistic New Museumhas been designed by SANAA. Located on Bowery  , this building shows that there are possible alternative to condos in high density urban context, in terms of contemporary architectural design.

The exhibition shows a lots of models, full of details and creativity. It's about lights, flowers, simple geometries and complex programs. At the opposite of 3D rendering exhibitions that we are used to see nowdays.

Another day in New York

Building with nature in Beacon , upstate ny,

Skin crime n°6 by Sylvie Fleurie at the Armory show

an amazing piece , Tool Table by Thomas Hirschhorn at the Armory show




Inflatable respiration,


Farhad Moshiri


Vintage Vinyl by Tom Burr


Foundation of New York at Grand Central

Saint Marks book store








A plastic bench in Beacon, Hommage to Bertand Segers, a friend and a great architect

photo by Katja Rahlwes


Corporate money,

Get ratted , the Unions workers' Inflatable Rat in Manhattan

You see these blown up rubber rats from time to time in Manhattan. These rodants are set on the street by various union workers to make the passersby aware that either illegal or unsafe labor practices are being conducted in the area. These rats usually have sign attached to them that say "Shame on You" and then a few details about what's going on.