“How strange, though, and deeply ironic would it be for a photographic project ostensibly intended to show us how off-kilter our built environment has become—Gielen writes that “he hopes to trigger a reevaluation of our built environment, to ask: What kind of development can be considered sustainable?”—to reveal that the suburbs are, in a sense, intensely original settlement patterns tiled over the landscape in ways our species could never have anticipated? We are living amidst geometry, post-terrestrial screens between ourselves and the planet we walk upon.” (via BLDGBLOG: Species of Spaces) 
1111 Lincoln Road - Herzog & de Meuron “The client wanted to create a civic building ‘about art, commerce, and culture.’ The result imparts an energized calm. Standing on the slab’s edge, looking out as the wind gusts through, you feel as if you have arrived, and yet, at the same time, sense that you are just getting started.” 
“Beautiful new work from Os Gemeos and Blu in Lisboa, Portugal. Just look at that shading! Wooo, love it.” (via Os Gemeos + Blu - BOOOOOOOM!) 
Otter Cove Residence by Sagan Piechota Architecture
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Alex AinslieI'm a recent Cornell CS MEng graduate interested in data, computation, design and their intersection. In 2009 I graduated early with an independent BA in Computing, Cognition & Aesthetics and a minor in French. My honors thesis examined the traces our Bluetooth-enabled devices leave behind in public space. I have spent the past three summers as an intern at Google working on mobile maps and gmail, suggest, query refinements, social search, and most recently goggles and mobile local search. I will join Google fulltime in August 2010. This site was born as a personal photo journal during a semester spent abroad in Paris and has evolved into a curated collection of links, text, and images. |
