Articles Tagged with #architecture
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Video
One Hundred Acres Underground
Swedish filmmaker Petter Ringbom takes a tour of the Lowline, a former trolley terminal under the streets of New York being turned into a one-hundred acre park.
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Rise of the Lion City
A timelapse video filmed over three years shows Singapore’s rapid growth, including rarely seen night scenes and the rapid progress of construction sites.
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Video
Braids, “Companion”
In a spectacular new video from Braids, vocalist Raphaelle Standell-Preston is singing around architecture.
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Gallery
The Shape of Paper to Come
In elaborate collages and installations, paper can generate elements that are capable of building new worlds.
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Gallery
New York From 1,200 Feet
Paintings of New York from the perspective of a plane flying at 1,200 feet, along the Hudson River.
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Gallery
The Internet Is So Loud
Large-scale abstract paintings that recall networks, maps, and schematic diagrams—and with each subsequent viewing can become anything at all.
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Life at an Incredible Height
In Mumbai, paltry regulation means hundreds of new skyscrapers bring more lows than highs. Photographs of new construction, with titles named after the buildings’ advertising slogans.
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Rule-Based Systems
The power of architecture, the architecture of power—it’s all one and the same (and occasionally beautiful) in the business of high-tech.
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Letters From London
Super Sad Tiny Home Fetish
Micro-living is no longer just for the very poor and the very bohemian. But how much space do we really deserve? Tracking down the minimum square-footage below which no one should be forced to endure.
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Letters From London
Home on the Thames
London’s evolution is measured in centuries, not years. But when half of the city’s new abodes go to foreign buyers—frequently as third or fourth homes—who’s steering the design? Assessing Battersea’s return from 30 years in the desert, just in time for a brand new American embassy.
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Gallery
The Lighthouse
Using a darkened home, precisely placed mirrors, and the occasional judicious cut in a wall, light becomes sculpture.
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Opinions
Rising Up at Ground Zero
Construction continues at the new World Trade Center—as does criticism of the approved designs. But a look deep inside the new structure shows the progress so far has proven to be in exactly the right direction.