#ecourban

[federicoalf]

Más fotos de la cafetería construida en colaboración con Javier Mariscal @mariscaloficial ahora ya en función. En el hall del edificio de #ecourban en el 22@ del Poblenou. #melaminas #egger #industrialdesign #diseño #diseñodemuebles #hechoamano #fetama #amedida #proyectosamedida #contrachapadodeabedul #cafeteria #taller #tallerdemadera #carpinteria #carpinteriabarcelona #barcelona #bcn #ebanisteria #proyectosdemuebles #designfurniture #furnitur #woodfurniture #plywood #interiorismo #interiordesign #bcn (en Barcelona, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI0gU73jMou/?igshid=jnjt0uc0wz81

[kilbilina]

Как хорошо, что у каждого своя Барселона #barcelonaamor #planta #cityhealth #space #ecourban (at Barcelona, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5JlhxFnJIE/?igshid=1fsd7e0sxyk5e

[octopocalyptic]

Waterstudio imagines a forest of Sea Trees built off the Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfront; it could provide living spaces for wildlife along some of the most expensive stretches of real estate in the United States. ...

While the concept is still in the development phase, Waterstudio thinks Sea Trees could be built today because much of the technology exists.

From an article here. Here is Waterstudio’s own take on it, as well as some more images.

[octopocalyptic]

Why Big Cities Need Coyotes

In January of this year, near Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan, a coyote stalked the streets around a Con Ed power station until it was captured, given the unlikely nickname of “Stella,” then released into the Bronx. In March, a coyote taunted photographers from the rooftop of a bar in Queens,...

Could coyotes, their sightings so vivid and impossible to ignore, help us overcome the misguided belief that humans and nature are separate? ...

 Weckel raised this idea himself when he was discussing the Gotham Coyote Project: “I would argue that in our particular period of time, coyotes could actually be more championed as a flagship species for urban environments.” He pointed to the kinds of words newspapers are using to describe coyotes in New York—invade, unnatural,strange. “Those are things that we have to address,” Weckel says, “because if all of a sudden we don’t look at these sightings as unnatural and strange, that means we begin to think of cities and ourselves as part of the larger environment.”

I love everything about this. Decentralizing human-centric narratives, calling out cultural discourse and its vocabulary of anthropocentrism, some details about urban ecology and ecological niches. I also love urban wildlife that finds cracks in even the most crowded of human-made environments and thrives alongside us. 

[octopocalyptic]

A French design firm has workshopped ideas for a sustainable tower city designed for the Sahara Desert. The page, with summaries of the project in French and English and with more images, can be found here.

[octopocalyptic]

 Thinking about solarpunk as it might influence fictional/fantasy aesthetics reminded me of these cards/concept art from Magic: The Gathering. This world is especially interesting because these solarpunk-esque aesthetics coexist alongside techno-magical/steampunk aesthetics. 

Not all the art was credited in the articles (found below), although I credited where I could in captions.

Sources:

  The Art of Gategrash

The Look of Return to Ravnica 

Dissension Style Guide: Simic

[sessayf]

This is the architecture that will change the world. Incrementally challenging the spectacle instead of trying (and failing) to overthrow it.