Sunday, September 23, 2007
MAPS: They don't love you as much as I do
Maps are the physical manifestation of how we define our existence......An Atlas of Radial Cartography -
http://www.an-atlas.com/excerpts.htm
Radial Cartography -
http://www.radicalcartography.net/
Great tentacles uniting websites on urban studies -
http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/
Many critical essays on physical and social borders
http://subtopia.blogspot.com/
Psychology of the future : lessons from modern consciousness research / Stanislav Grof.
"Cartography of the human psyche"
Lenz at 7:52 AM
Saturday, July 15, 2006
"I WANT ONE OF THOSE" is currently my fav CRAZY GIZMO website.
Anyone for turntable that converts your vinyl to mp3 selling at USD$149? Comes with USB port. Check it out @ FREDFLARE
Lenz at 7:34 AM
BIGPERK blog has very cool quirky features of designer product; touching on furniture design, tablewares, urban living, etc.
MUST SEE
Lenz at 7:12 AM
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Self-Subsistency in 330 sq ft - More solutions for high density singles living
EDGE DESIGN (HK)
Lenz at 7:30 PM
Why can't Singapore have such creative solutions for high density housing?
From ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP
Design philosophy:
"Every architectural intervention represents a destruction. 'Destroy intelligently,' Snozzi admonishes. How much architectural intervention is necessary for the design to suffice?
We acknowledge that people who have migrated by sea, such as those around the Pacific Rim, have traditionally developed as tension cultures (lightweight and renewable, to bend with the earthquakes and wind). In Europe, where buildings are constructed of stone and brick in order to defy nature and time, a compression (heavy) culture has developed. The combination of these different forms can give security of enclosure as well as flexibility to engage with or retreat from the land as mood and climate allow."
Lenz at 6:59 PM
More Japanese architecture in Singapore - What and Where is our idenity?
Metabolist style by Kenzo Tange - UOB Plaza
New Tange project - The Linear in Upp Bt Timah
Lenz at 3:53 AM
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Kisho Kurokawa's architecture in S'pore - Lane Crawford
Kurokawa's "spirals" in Melbourne
Spirals in Japan
Spirals in Singapore
Lenz at 6:24 AM
60s Japanese Architecture - Metabolist
The Nakagin Capsule Tower takes on the challenge of the issue of whether mass production can express a diverse new quality. The Tower also strives to establish a space for the individual as a criticism to the Japan that modernized without undergoing any establishment of an "self".
Kurokawa developed the technology to install the capsule units into a concrete core with only 4 high-tension bolts, as well as making the units detachable and replaceable. The capsule is designed to accommodate the individual as either an apartment or studio space, and by connecting units can also accommodate a family. Complete with appliances and furniture, from audio system to telephone, the capsule interior is pre-assembled in a factory off-site. The interior is then hoisted by crane and fastened to the concrete core shaft.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower realizes the ideas of metabolism, exchangeability, recycleablity as the prototype of sustainable architecture.
Lenz at 6:01 AM
Saturday, May 13, 2006
The man who owns Kowloon with calligraffiti
Tsang Tsou-choi
Lenz at 12:52 AM
SOHO@farrer
Layout for a studio
Lenz at 12:19 AM
Friday, May 12, 2006
Seaside - Swimming Pool in your room @ teuco.co.uk
Lenz at 11:58 PM
Fabrics for Tote - I love Tote!!
BabyRoo Totebags
Lenz at 11:25 PM
Designer ToteBags - Ed Emberley
Lenz at 10:46 PM
Dream Rooms for Rent - Fox Hotel
http://www.hotelfox.dk/home.html- Trendy, ALternative hotels in Europe
Lenz at 10:29 PM
EarthShip-Living in recycled materials?
http://www.earthship.co.uk/ - A design to solve earth's need to meet demand for housing & reduce depletion of resources - Build from rubbish
Now available for daily, weekly rental!
Lenz at 10:14 PM
ToteBags from BG Shop (Japan)
http://www.bg-shop.net/feature/index.htmlLenz at 10:06 PM