Saturday, 19 July 2008
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
They told me I was mad...
They told me it couldn't be done...
They told me I must've been taking too much LSD...
Now tell that to Menashe Kadishman!!!
Menashe Kadishman's "Suspended"
Final Monument "Genetic Forest Poster"
From Flickr:
Kadishman is an Israeli sculptor and painter whose sculptures in the 1960s were Minimalist in style and focused on seeming to defy gravity.
Sounds like a nice guy!!!
and here comes the last post from me...
preparing for the ts on thursday - i do need a bit of zen.... good luck to everyone.
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Monday, 26 May 2008
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
More Ishigami...
table
installation for SFYF@MOT-Art (it's a "balloon" filled with helium. 1 ton of shiny floating yum-ness!)
Friday, 16 May 2008
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
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Thursday, 8 May 2008
CONGRATULATIONS MARKUS!
A hearty 'Well Done!' for our very own starchitect Markus Miessen. His recent book Did Someone Say Participate? made it to second place in the Independent's list of The Top Ten Architecture Books of All Time, being surpassed only by Rem 'The God' Koolhaas's legendary Delirious New York. Surely this heralds greater things from our beloved Miessy. We anxiously await another release and pray that one day, he'll make it to the top.
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Some monumental news...
Designs for Angel of the South on Channel4
(I only caught the tail bit of the segment of tonight's show, which had a bit more information and interviews than the video currently on the site)
Monday, 5 May 2008
(Monu) MENTAL Papercraft
This site may also intrigue you. Its a papercraft site, similar to the program Pepakura but allows you to bend the paper. It's great stuff. It includes cut-outs and 'how to' guides for download.
Click on the 3D Papercraft tab at the top and you'll find that...
The architecture section is full of monuments, yippeee!
I hear you groan, but there are numerous things that you can download, like lions and tigers. Hooray.
Click on the 3D Papercraft tab at the top and you'll find that...
The architecture section is full of monuments, yippeee!
I hear you groan, but there are numerous things that you can download, like lions and tigers. Hooray.
Supermachine eats JCB
This was found here
It's a terrific site. Each section is intriguingly named, and always over-delivers on WOW factor.
Definately worth a look.
Enjoy!
It's a terrific site. Each section is intriguingly named, and always over-delivers on WOW factor.
Definately worth a look.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
F*ck off - It's my site! My site!!
Hamilton-Baillie Associates max out their Illustrator skills and produce this titillating piece of graphic on what they have in mind for the Stratford Gyratory a.k.a The Grey-Brown Bubble Bottom of downtown shopping in Stratford Megalopolis.
Third item down the list, my sexy friends...Yes, it is exciting and definitely worth my time posting it here: Enjoy!
Or simply punch your way to traffic management nirvana below!
Third item down the list, my sexy friends...Yes, it is exciting and definitely worth my time posting it here: Enjoy!
Or simply punch your way to traffic management nirvana below!
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
WHAT IS PUBLIC
I started to think about my "public space" on the roof of the Euston Station. I started to create a function for it, to look for an argument which connects the "commercial need" of an investor to create a large public space for demonstrations. But before starting to "design" anything on my roof, I had to clear questions which arrised with that intention: what is public, what is public space, how are "public actions" expressed, what is the importance of physical public space for demonstrations/public actions, what is truly public and what is meanwhile private in the public sphere???????
Now after reading and thinking about some things, I am not sure how to create a political public space, using ONLY tools on the "architectural" scale. It seems to me to be irresponsible to talk only about the 3dimensional space when i want to describe an intention of demonstrations or "becoming public"....
Here are some thoughts I found and some I got in my head, maybe someone has the patience to read and maybe also just to say "DENIS STOP! Take autocad/rhino/maya/bluefoam... and make a bit of architecture!" :) GUYS THIS IS AN URGENT UNIT 7 HELP REQUEST! :)
Most urbanists tend to think of PUBLIC space as three-dimensional PHYSICAL space. Piazza Navona, the Red Square, Central Park.... For urban planners, public space is both the visible symbol of local democracy, and the quintessential PLACE for it to become action.
CANTON URI - SWITZERLAND: men would gather and make decisions about common issues. This might be something in the back of our minds as the symbol of PURE democracy. Today, however, the "public" space and getting something "public" is much more than just a congregation on a square, isn´t it???
An action can take place at the TIananmen Square, but it becomes truly public only after it has ben broadcast on CNN and can be later traced through Google. The virtual and publicly accesible...
Does PUBLIC SPACE in fact signify the public sphere, the public domain as well as the physical urban public space? Have they become ONE, a multidimensional world beyond our skin and within our heads, shaping our daily consciousness without us necessarily noticing if we´ve shifted from one dimension to another. Did you read the news in the paper at home, or hear it on the radio while driving your car, did you see the ad in the tv in your bedroom or on the street, glued on the city bus?
PUBLIC: the first recorded use of the word PUBLIC in english identifies the "public" with the COMMON GOOD in society...
PUBLIC GOODS: to some extent in a similar way as HUMAN RIGHTS - are basically political concepts. Is water a human right?
A public good is "non-rivalrous", "non-excludable"...
here some global public goods listed by the UNITED NATIONS REPORT:
1. basic human dignity for all people, including universal access to basic education and health care
2. respect for national so sovereignty
3. global public health, particularly communicable disease control
4. global security - global public domain free from crime and violence
5. global peace
6. communication and transportation systems harmonized across borders concerted management of the global natural commons to promote their sustainable use
7. abailability of international arenas for multilateral negotiations between states as well as between state and non-state actors.
SPACE:
French: espace
German: Raum
Space implied additional meaning of "region beyond Earth´s atmosphere". It has always the connotation of "something in between".
URBAN (public) SPACE AND PUBLIC LIFE
Sennett writes about the growth of the 18th century cosmpolis and notes that "The focus of public life was the capityl city". Public life is acording to that urban and the private life has more to do with nature. Urban public space is the indispensable stage for public life. It goes without saying that urban space is public space, there is no such thing as "urban private space" (???) or is there going to once the multinational real estate investment companies, which have purchased all major city centres? According to Sennett "the nature of a public square is to intermix persons and diverse activities". Coincidental meeting of people from all walks of life in the social essence of urban space, which makes it public. WITHOUT PEOPLE THERE IS NO URBAN (PUBLIC) SPACE.
2 legally criteria to judge whether a space is public or not: OWNERSHIP and ACCESSIBILITY.
PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENT IN PUBLIC SPACE
Who can buy access to public space? Who can sell public space? Who has been given the mandate to do so? And who earns the money coming from that?
Real estate owner allows to use his building as background for advertisement, commercial tv channel sells time slots, bus company rents the exterior and interior for publicity purposes. Advertisement (or the action to get something "public") is public space or time that has been sold to private stakeholders.
MEMORY
Buildings are history and you can read the city through them. You can look at facades. Closer look at the construction and technology, which has ben used. Through your knowledge of general history, you can add invisible layers to the visual picture you are getting from the city.
COLECTIVE MEMORY takes place in public space.
MEDIA as additional dimension of PUBLIC SPACE:
By choosing a clever zoom lens and the right angle a TV camera can make 5000 demonstants out of 50. The street talks via TV.
POLITICS as additional dimension of PUBLIC SPACE:
France 2006: referring to riots in Paris, a few months later Chirac had no way out - he had to withdraw the proposed labor law.
Thailand 2006: middle class demonstrating in Bangkok and forcing the corrupt Prime Minister to step down.
BUT(!): growing number of public demonstrations linked to the weakening of democracy? This is in a contradiction to the common, but naive idea of democracy allowing for demonstrations. The number of people voting is declining generally. Public street dissent is rising and becoming and being suppressed more violently. That is a reflection of people´s feeling of powerlessness that leads to apparent apaty, widespread and growing addictions and vandalism.
BA
Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida: "We believe that the single most important factor of shaping the quality of knowledge creation is the quality of place. To differentiate the various aspects of place we use the concept of BA"
"Ba": japanese word that translates rougly as "place". A holistic concept which encompasss several dimensions simultaneously: the physical, the mental, the social and the virtual.
Now after reading and thinking about some things, I am not sure how to create a political public space, using ONLY tools on the "architectural" scale. It seems to me to be irresponsible to talk only about the 3dimensional space when i want to describe an intention of demonstrations or "becoming public"....
Here are some thoughts I found and some I got in my head, maybe someone has the patience to read and maybe also just to say "DENIS STOP! Take autocad/rhino/maya/bluefoam... and make a bit of architecture!" :) GUYS THIS IS AN URGENT UNIT 7 HELP REQUEST! :)
Most urbanists tend to think of PUBLIC space as three-dimensional PHYSICAL space. Piazza Navona, the Red Square, Central Park.... For urban planners, public space is both the visible symbol of local democracy, and the quintessential PLACE for it to become action.
CANTON URI - SWITZERLAND: men would gather and make decisions about common issues. This might be something in the back of our minds as the symbol of PURE democracy. Today, however, the "public" space and getting something "public" is much more than just a congregation on a square, isn´t it???
An action can take place at the TIananmen Square, but it becomes truly public only after it has ben broadcast on CNN and can be later traced through Google. The virtual and publicly accesible...
Does PUBLIC SPACE in fact signify the public sphere, the public domain as well as the physical urban public space? Have they become ONE, a multidimensional world beyond our skin and within our heads, shaping our daily consciousness without us necessarily noticing if we´ve shifted from one dimension to another. Did you read the news in the paper at home, or hear it on the radio while driving your car, did you see the ad in the tv in your bedroom or on the street, glued on the city bus?
PUBLIC: the first recorded use of the word PUBLIC in english identifies the "public" with the COMMON GOOD in society...
PUBLIC GOODS: to some extent in a similar way as HUMAN RIGHTS - are basically political concepts. Is water a human right?
A public good is "non-rivalrous", "non-excludable"...
here some global public goods listed by the UNITED NATIONS REPORT:
1. basic human dignity for all people, including universal access to basic education and health care
2. respect for national so sovereignty
3. global public health, particularly communicable disease control
4. global security - global public domain free from crime and violence
5. global peace
6. communication and transportation systems harmonized across borders concerted management of the global natural commons to promote their sustainable use
7. abailability of international arenas for multilateral negotiations between states as well as between state and non-state actors.
SPACE:
French: espace
German: Raum
Space implied additional meaning of "region beyond Earth´s atmosphere". It has always the connotation of "something in between".
URBAN (public) SPACE AND PUBLIC LIFE
Sennett writes about the growth of the 18th century cosmpolis and notes that "The focus of public life was the capityl city". Public life is acording to that urban and the private life has more to do with nature. Urban public space is the indispensable stage for public life. It goes without saying that urban space is public space, there is no such thing as "urban private space" (???) or is there going to once the multinational real estate investment companies, which have purchased all major city centres? According to Sennett "the nature of a public square is to intermix persons and diverse activities". Coincidental meeting of people from all walks of life in the social essence of urban space, which makes it public. WITHOUT PEOPLE THERE IS NO URBAN (PUBLIC) SPACE.
2 legally criteria to judge whether a space is public or not: OWNERSHIP and ACCESSIBILITY.
PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENT IN PUBLIC SPACE
Who can buy access to public space? Who can sell public space? Who has been given the mandate to do so? And who earns the money coming from that?
Real estate owner allows to use his building as background for advertisement, commercial tv channel sells time slots, bus company rents the exterior and interior for publicity purposes. Advertisement (or the action to get something "public") is public space or time that has been sold to private stakeholders.
MEMORY
Buildings are history and you can read the city through them. You can look at facades. Closer look at the construction and technology, which has ben used. Through your knowledge of general history, you can add invisible layers to the visual picture you are getting from the city.
COLECTIVE MEMORY takes place in public space.
MEDIA as additional dimension of PUBLIC SPACE:
By choosing a clever zoom lens and the right angle a TV camera can make 5000 demonstants out of 50. The street talks via TV.
POLITICS as additional dimension of PUBLIC SPACE:
France 2006: referring to riots in Paris, a few months later Chirac had no way out - he had to withdraw the proposed labor law.
Thailand 2006: middle class demonstrating in Bangkok and forcing the corrupt Prime Minister to step down.
BUT(!): growing number of public demonstrations linked to the weakening of democracy? This is in a contradiction to the common, but naive idea of democracy allowing for demonstrations. The number of people voting is declining generally. Public street dissent is rising and becoming and being suppressed more violently. That is a reflection of people´s feeling of powerlessness that leads to apparent apaty, widespread and growing addictions and vandalism.
BA
Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida: "We believe that the single most important factor of shaping the quality of knowledge creation is the quality of place. To differentiate the various aspects of place we use the concept of BA"
"Ba": japanese word that translates rougly as "place". A holistic concept which encompasss several dimensions simultaneously: the physical, the mental, the social and the virtual.
Flash Mob
Hey guys! how are you all doing in your break?
Little description of the Denis-situation: the more I think about my giant plattform, about kind of congregation/demonstration space, relationships between public space / private space / commercial space (about "public" and about "space" in general), the more I get confused... But as Matthew would probably say: "the point when you reach the most confused stage, is the point you will come with something really powerful". Well, I want to share couple of thoughts with you... Maybe some of you feel like commenting.
Here some "inverted" public congregation:
Little description of the Denis-situation: the more I think about my giant plattform, about kind of congregation/demonstration space, relationships between public space / private space / commercial space (about "public" and about "space" in general), the more I get confused... But as Matthew would probably say: "the point when you reach the most confused stage, is the point you will come with something really powerful". Well, I want to share couple of thoughts with you... Maybe some of you feel like commenting.
Here some "inverted" public congregation:
Monday, 24 March 2008
Saturday, 1 March 2008
Friday, 29 February 2008
Unit Trip???
I suggest we take a weekend break to here: http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/index.htm
Big Up Portmerion!!!
Big Up Portmerion!!!
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Ministry of Fire and Miracles
When working on the WEEK 10 brief, I visited the MFM church round the corner where i live. It's housed in a dingy old warehouse next to the Mr. Bagel factory.
I was doing some archiving and decided to have a look at their site: They're based in Lagos, Nigeria and their HQ is called MFM Prayer City - look at the amount of people there in the image below! Also, check out their proposal for a future HQ. I guess that's what cathedrals look like these days...
About MFM
Banner outside MFM in Hackney Wick
SketchUp style renders of the planned new MFM HQ
Picture of congregation at MFM Prayer City
I was doing some archiving and decided to have a look at their site: They're based in Lagos, Nigeria and their HQ is called MFM Prayer City - look at the amount of people there in the image below! Also, check out their proposal for a future HQ. I guess that's what cathedrals look like these days...
About MFM
Banner outside MFM in Hackney Wick
SketchUp style renders of the planned new MFM HQ
Picture of congregation at MFM Prayer City
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Newham Site Flythroughs
I guess they're maybe not worth posting, but I'm chuffed they happened at all, so here goes: First up just the extruded structures that face the site (Stratford High Street).
Second flythrough features a initial proposal on the site.
Sorry about the jerky camera movement...It'll get better.
Second flythrough features a initial proposal on the site.
Sorry about the jerky camera movement...It'll get better.
It's Bollard Time!
Joe, maybe some inspiration for you...
Giuliani upsetting NYC pedestrians in 1997?
Hackney being liberated of public space barriers?
DIY traffic control? (In your case, replace cars with humans...)
A socio-physical study towards building barrier free urban environment in Iran? (Use it in reverse - implement all the problem areas they have detected...?)
Makers of street barriers in the UK?
A historical perspective on pedestrian policies in Britain?
And there's more...Yay!!!
And finally, a Channel 5 test of the SP1000 anti-terrorist uber-bollard from the unstoppable (haha) ATG Access AKA "The Bollard People". Enjoy!
Giuliani upsetting NYC pedestrians in 1997?
Hackney being liberated of public space barriers?
DIY traffic control? (In your case, replace cars with humans...)
A socio-physical study towards building barrier free urban environment in Iran? (Use it in reverse - implement all the problem areas they have detected...?)
Makers of street barriers in the UK?
A historical perspective on pedestrian policies in Britain?
And there's more...Yay!!!
And finally, a Channel 5 test of the SP1000 anti-terrorist uber-bollard from the unstoppable (haha) ATG Access AKA "The Bollard People". Enjoy!
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
M CORPORATION launches website
Yep Denis...Post 135.
But just wanted to share the fact that M CORPORATION have launched a beta version of their upcoming M SPACE website. You can visit it here.
But just wanted to share the fact that M CORPORATION have launched a beta version of their upcoming M SPACE website. You can visit it here.
Monday, 21 January 2008
Saturday, 19 January 2008
Friday, 18 January 2008
Thursday, 17 January 2008
Monumental Archipelago
An early and crude but extremely time consuming
attempt at dropping some Maya models into
CryEngine2 and blowing shit up...
attempt at dropping some Maya models into
CryEngine2 and blowing shit up...
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Newham Site Proposal & Geotagging
I've created a gallery of images for my site proposal:
The idea was that it would read as a simple "photographic
reference map" at street level from each axis point going
in SE direction.
I really wanted this to show up automatically in GE which
I thought was do-able from my Picasa Web Album, but it appears
it's not so straight forward (if you want to do this, consider using
Panoramio, which asks you to geotag when you upload - the
geotagging interface is much cruder than Picasa's though).
In order to view the images I've taken and tagged, go to
my Newham_Site_Proposal album here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/inter7.hh/Newham_Site_Proposal
And click the link "Watch in Google Earth" at the bottom left hand
side. This will prompt you to save a .kml file which you can load in
GE (just double-click it, where ever you saved it to)
OR
Move your cursor to the bottom of the slideshow below, and higlight
the little yellow person icon, and then click the link which will
take you to the gallery and the option to view in GE or GM.
BTW, the site is approx. 1.4km of main road called High Street
in London E15.
I hope this also might help some of you who have been
thinking about doing the same. It has, believe it or not,
taken me HOURS to get this going. Shame we don't get much
credit for wrestling with technology...
The idea was that it would read as a simple "photographic
reference map" at street level from each axis point going
in SE direction.
I really wanted this to show up automatically in GE which
I thought was do-able from my Picasa Web Album, but it appears
it's not so straight forward (if you want to do this, consider using
Panoramio, which asks you to geotag when you upload - the
geotagging interface is much cruder than Picasa's though).
In order to view the images I've taken and tagged, go to
my Newham_Site_Proposal album here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/inter7.hh/Newham_Site_Proposal
And click the link "Watch in Google Earth" at the bottom left hand
side. This will prompt you to save a .kml file which you can load in
GE (just double-click it, where ever you saved it to)
OR
Move your cursor to the bottom of the slideshow below, and higlight
the little yellow person icon, and then click the link which will
take you to the gallery and the option to view in GE or GM.
BTW, the site is approx. 1.4km of main road called High Street
in London E15.
I hope this also might help some of you who have been
thinking about doing the same. It has, believe it or not,
taken me HOURS to get this going. Shame we don't get much
credit for wrestling with technology...
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Hi Everyone, I think I've found something useful.
I found the website of list of monument and some of them with photographs.
I hope this can be any help.
Here is the link.
http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/index.htm
I hope this can be any help.
Here is the link.
http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/index.htm
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Saturday, 12 January 2008
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Conversation between Paul Virilio and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
The monument is primarily a signal, a sign, an appeal. A monument thus is not bound to refer to past, to an historical or other event. It is primarily a moment of stopping or pausing in the habits of everyday life.
more?
>>> http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/urbanaria/txt/e/virilio.htm
more?
>>> http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/urbanaria/txt/e/virilio.htm
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
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