Soon to be Razed, a Philadelphia Neighborhood Frozen in Time
A recent visit to Philadelphia’s Naval Yards, currently awaiting redevelopment, offers a glimpse of an abandoned community soon to be demolished forever. The Naval Yards, and the residential communities that ring it, sit frozen in time since it was last populated, during the height of America’s military industrial complex. (Architizer)
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A Swiss Village, Laboratory for Contemporary Art
(“Street Painting #5″ by Lang/Baumann, Verocin, Switzerland, 2010. Photograph by Robert Hofer)
Every summer the small Swiss town of Vercorin offers up its public spaces and buildings to artists to make do with them what they will. R&Art, the association behind the initiative, commissions contemporary works that seek to engage the village as a whole in an effort to reconcile Vercorin’s history and traditions with contemporary culture. Lang/Baumann‘s “Street Painting #5″ is a stunning testament to the strength of the villagers’ goal to create “spaces for dialogues in synch with our times.” (Architizer)
4 months ago
NASA’s Theoretical Space Colonies
Man walked on the moon for the first time in 1969, but it wasn’t long before we began seriously conceptualizing permanent life in space. In the summer of 1975, NASA’s Ames Research Center together with Stanford University conducted a seminar which posited the sustainability of organic systems in huge self-sufficient cities orbiting the earth. (Architizer)
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The old home of the social network
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