Cities and Sand 3
The trouble with a tabula rasa is that the tabula is rarely rasa after all.
Adu Dhabi has unveiled it's plans for a cultural district on Saadiyat Island
("Happiness Island&
Architecture
Architekt
Kapitza [http://kapitza.com/] have created the OpenType font Architekt
[http://kapitza.com/shop/fonts/architekt], a selection of architectural elements
in positive and negative form.
> "Architekt contains 72 minimalist architectural
Cities and Sand 2
The fractal dimension of the Gulf coast is increasing.
Inspired by the recent pamphlet, The Gulf
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gulf-Rem-Koolhaas/dp/3037780886/] by Rem Koolhaas and
AMO, my current obsession is
The Alsopification of Park Hill
The £146m regeneration of Sheffield's Park Hill housing estate, which has this
week been given the go-ahead
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6234385.stm], represents a
Wilfullness reigns at Gazprom
The six architects solicited by Russian oil giant Gazprom to design their new
headquarters after relocating from Moscow to St. Petersburg, have revealed
their
designs this week [http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,