‘The most we can do is our best’
Plot Ratio, A Plan to Combat Congestion in London, London County Council, 1957
French artist Armelle Caron has created a series called “tout bien rangé” in which the block patterns of various cities have been disassembled, sorted by shape and size and rearranged as a new graphic representation of the city. While the result of the taxonomicalish classification and reorganization is not particularly useful from an urban design perspective (the city maps don’t seem to be at the same scale, for one), it’s certainly an interesting way to look at the city, and to think about blocks, block size and block shape, which are such an integral and enduring element of our cities’ urban forms. See all of the pieces on the artist’s site. (via Strange Maps)
For something similar see The Patterns of the Urban Fabric of Beijing’s Hutong.
(via happythings)
Sports Tower for Ukraine / Sergiy Prokof`yev and Olga Prokof`yeva
Location: Ukraine
By Ro&Ad Architects, this is just one of the most brilliant and interesting pieces of landscape architecture that I’ve seen to date, I think the great thing about it is how it manages to have next to no impact on the environment like a bridge usually would.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
THE CLIMATRON IN ST LOUIS, 1960
…gigantic geodesic dome housing the city’s botanical gardens
Music Hall and Auditorium Algueña designed by COR + Partners.
