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&
Urban theory
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
London: A life in maps
Currently showing at the British Library, until 4th March 2007, is an
[exhibition] (http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/londoninmaps/homepage.html
) looking at the history of maps of London, from the panoramic
Spore Cities
I love these screenshots from the forthcoming game Spore [http://www.spore.com/]
. The brainchild of Will Wright, who also designed Sim City, the cities in Spore
have a great feel to them,
Cities and Sand
Over at the Venice Superblog [http://www.venicesuperblog.net/] are a number of
great interviews with various architects and architectural thinkers from the
Venice Biennale.
I was particularly taken with this interview between