April 25, 2013
"Buildings are no longer apprehended in a glance at their front but experienced from all angles. ‘It’s a sensibility,’ says Holl, ‘becoming more acutely aware of how we experience things.’ Architecture, he explains, is felt and understood by the ‘subject-body,’ which moves through space. Music, for him, is a powerful metaphor for the dynamic unfolding of experience."

— Philip Kennicott speaking of Architect Steven Holl in Dwell Magazine Vol. 13.6, May 2013

April 23, 2013

Watch Rio Erase and Rebuild Its Entire Waterfront in 3 Minutes

(Source: theatlanticcities.com)

April 19, 2013
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For decades, cities have reflected the neat separation of work and home, with residences in one part of town, offices and industry in another, and infrastructure (highways, parking garages, hub-and-spoke transit systems) built to help connect us between the two around what has been for many people a 9-to-5 work day. But what happens when more people start to work outside of offices, or really anywhere – at all times?

Suddenly, we need WiFi in parks, and certainly in underground subway systems. We need more physical spaces that serve this new lifestyle: co-working offices and live/work apartments.

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How the End of the Traditional Workplace Is Changing Our Cities

(Source: theatlanticcities.com)

April 15, 2013
‘For the pedantic rail enthusiasts, the definition of a subway used here is, with some caveats, “a network containing high capacity grade-separated passenger rail transit lines which run frequently, serve an urban core, and are underground or elevated for at least part of their downtown route.” For the rest of you, the definition is “an underground train in a city.”’

‘For the pedantic rail enthusiasts, the definition of a subway used here is, with some caveats, “a network containing high capacity grade-separated passenger rail transit lines which run frequently, serve an urban core, and are underground or elevated for at least part of their downtown route.” For the rest of you, the definition is “an underground train in a city.”’

April 11, 2013
The 24 Most Colorful Cities In The World - BuzzFeed

The 24 Most Colorful Cities In The World - BuzzFeed

(Source: BuzzFeed)

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