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The best Monument Valley level.

Charles Moore, "The Spaniards Introduce Palm Trees to Santa Catalina Island" (1985) and a screen shot from Monument Valley (2014)

If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all signs may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

Prophetic words from E.B. White, whose description of the television is truer today than when he wrote it in 1948.

#eb white #television #internet

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I knew it.

#architecture #egypt #pyramid #sphinx

Damage Control might be the only comic book that includes architecture criticism.

#marvel #comics #Architecture

Louis I. Kahn, proposal for a Lenin memorial in Leningrad (1932). The towers were to be built entirely of red glass brick. Maybe inspired by Bruno Taut and Mies van der Rohe’s earlier work? This unbuilt project looks like it might also be a precedent for Kahn’s Roosevelt memorial.

#architecture #leningrad #memorials #louis kahn

It’s rush hour in Fulton Center and thousands of black-coated commuters stream into the glass building through entrances on Broadway and Fulton Street and funnel down to the hovering circular concourse before branching off to further descend to the many tunnels that transverse New York’s five boroughs. A steady hum of voices backgrounds the incessant chirp-crank, chirp-crank of the subway turnstiles and the occasional click of digital shutters Instagramming the conical metal dome that dominates New York City’s shiny new transit nexus, which is already being called downtown’s Grand Central Terminal. Building anything so complex — especially infrastructure, especially in lower Manhattan — is an impressive feat, but it takes more than efficient planning and techno-artistry to make a space grand.

Continue reading at the Guardian

#criticism #New York City #transit #Architecture

Google Maps Disasters No.1. Sketch for a diptych or comic strip.

"Redesigning New York: An Immodest Proposal" by Craig Hodgetts & Lester Walker (1969). Pictured: a glass dome over Times Square, covered in advertising. New York just as it is, only more so.

Thomas Jefferson's drawing of the UVA library (ca.1820) was made for Instagram.

Building a house in the Peruvian highlands.

Return of the camouflage brick billboard. #BillboardsAreAlmostAllRight

#billboardsarealmostallright

Learning from... Great brickwork in Williamsburg. I wish I knew what this was originally. (at Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

Paul Rudolph, drawing of Barcelona Pavilion (1986). "Circulation and reflection from walls."

Paul Rudolph, drawing of the Barcelona Pavilion (1986). "Circulation and cones of vision."

Paul Rudolph, drawing of the Barcelona Pavilion (1986). "Circular flow of space at ends of panels." #minimalism

#minimalism

Brick billboards are almost all right.

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