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Informalities in Berlin, Germany

#squating #informal #berlin #germany #rebelcity

Water Tower photographs by Bernd & Hilla Becher

#water #water tower #photography #bernd and hilla becher #architecture #design #infrastructure

Surprising conditions for a country in the first world!

#water #sanitation #health #21stcentury #NYC

Grid of points into an organic surface as a method for organization

#grid #bernard tschumi #parc de la villette #paris #design #park #methods of design

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Boulevard da Paz is a site with extreme changes in topography, located on the outskirts of southern Sao Paulo city. The area lacks nearby employment opportunities and has problems with physical access along steep slopes. Water control is also an important issue as stormwater creates the risk of...

#favela #urban design #urban architecture #topography

Esri ArcGIS viewer for Flex

#maps #digitalmaps #rio de janeiro #interactive

Mapping Rio de Janeiro

Warka Water Tower by Arturo Vittori

Passively collects water from the air through condensation.

#water shortage #water #rural village #rural water #ethiopia #industrial design #passive design

Don't forget to look up once in awhile.

#internet #socialmedia #humanity #conversation #whatsreal

How can you buy or sell the sky? The warmth of the land? [...] If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? We don't own them. Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every humming insect, is holy in the memory and experience of my people. This beautiful earth is the mother of the Red Man. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The rivers are our brothers. We give the rivers the kindness we would give to any brother. But the white man does not understand our ways. He is a stranger who takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother but his enemy. And when he has conquered it, he moves on. He kidnaps the earth from his children. And he does not care.

Siddharaj Dhadda, Gandhian Leader

#perspective #worldview #philosophy #energy crisis #powerofmoney

Building design leaves a blank canvas for the public to interact with through graffiti.

Architecture Office of Brian MacKay-Lyons in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Photograph by Keith Zawistowski

#architecture #graffiti #urban architecture

The U.N. Climate Summit Film shown September 2014

#climate change #climate summit #what's next

Architects and Biologists, unite!

Janine Benyus on "Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers"

#biomimicry #design #technology #biology

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