Fields.

townsandcities:

People are willing to pay for a more walkable neighborhood.

via nevver:

School’s out

(Source: s-e-e-n, via jaredtomas)

The opposite of most things.

mardrina:

soverian:

one-last-cigarette:

The “Tunnel of Love” in Ukraine

woah

oh.

can i get married here? in the tunnel of loveeeee

(Source: beconinriot, via elpliego)

judsondunn:

Methodist hospital’ contribution to to area immediately beside the light rail station (Taken with Instagram at The Methodist Hospital)

myexternalharddrive:

carltonmackey:

ALMOST DONE

“Living Walls seeks to promote, educate, and change perspectives toward public space in our communities via street art.”

Living Walls, The City Speaks, is an annual conference on street art and urbanism that began in August 2010 in the city of Atlanta. Along with changing the urban landscape, the Living Walls conference set out to highlight a number of problems facing the city. Living Walls did not just showcase art, but also built a platform for much-needed dialogue in the city.

http://livingwallsconference.com/index.php?/about/

Photo taken 05/06/12 by Carlton Mackey

I noticed this wall on Saturday in the Old Fourth Ward. It’s awesome!

(via themidtownarchive)

Why not a sidewalk

I think we posted this before, without captions.

But I’m not sure. I’ll be honest, I quite like this house, even if foot-thick hinged shutters are more than a little excessive. Zombie protection is important though, so there’s some clear justification.

(Source: meme4u, via inspider)

architizer:

Julie Mehretu’s mural in the Goldman Sachs NYC headquarters.*

A piece of high art in the lobby of your hedge fund is much like the ice cream chain dangling from Gucci Mane’s neck: it’s a largely superficial, but necessary, status item. More over here.

*You may recall last year’s insider’s account of this same lobby and building by a then-anonymous writer Katie Baker.

The red door looks like an entrance. Stacked masonry looks solid and permanent. Tiffany windows provide a soaring scale. Clear order provides comfort for guests: they know where to go. Suggests importance, yet inviting.

Contrast.

A floating facade is ominous to approach. Marble sheets look delicate and fleeting. Huge panes of glass look simple and scaleless. Hidden order confuses guests, they don’t see an entrance or goal. Suggests importance, yet aloof.

Look closely and one can see floors align. However, it appears as if the two parts of this building were not made at the same scale, that either the newer addition was built for giants, or the older portion built for children.

Is the latter more exciting for those reasons? Or is it unsettling? Is there a difference? How important are these ideas of permanence and clarity today?

I don’t believe it is necessary to attack an older building in order to make it relevant again. Pursuing opposites for extreme contrast undermines the original structure’s design. Yet I understand it is extremely difficult to integrate a compelling addition without copying the original, which is rarely in anyone’s interest. Contrast provides a clearer path for an architect to follow, but at what cost? Is harmony important to city residents anymore?

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Provencher Roy + Associés Architects

more here

(Source: whereisthecoool)

Architects, this is your assignment.

snowce:

Wolf Suschitzky, Stepney, London ca 1935

(Source: wonderfulambiguity, via deepthinking)

theblackworkshop:

The Presence of Absence: Detroit’s haunting architectural relics

link for more photos http://www.architonic.com/ntsht/the-presence-of-absence-detroit-s-haunting-architectural-relics/7000519

(via sinpatron)

kateoplis:

casually, krystina

It’s not just a problem for architects.

seriouslyamerica:

separability:

A must-read in general. One fantastic response:

I think that it’s important to consider the implications that all of this unpaid (and likely stemming from the upper-class) labor has on society as well, especially within the industries that largely require entire chunks of time and resources from those aspiring to join them. Particularly within the public sector, one glaring example of this is the field of legislative aide job opportunities that are often only handed out to those who have toiled away for months (and indeed sometimes years) on end as campaign volunteers. 

This creates a setup where an entire profession (any job offering Congressional support) effectively shuts out the very large proportion of the college-aged population who do not have parents (or some other richer benefactor) that can afford to subsidize living costs for however long they need to gain the extensive and unpaid experience necessary to enter the good graces of a Congressman or Senator. The implications of this are far-reaching and structural; and reinforce the culture of privilege already rampant in Washington D.C. where not only do federal lawmakers themselves often lack valuable perspective on the issues plaguing lower- and middle class Americans that constitute the majority of the nation’s citizenry, but also with the advisors and assistants working for them, who by virtue of being able to land their jobs in the first place already were fortunate enough to have been born into the nation’s wealthy economic minority. This creates a cycle of dissonance between the real world economic reality that Americans face and what the legislative class in Washington understands the proper solutions are to those very problems.

THANK YOU. I went to my college’s career services (and I have an EXTREME amount of privilege to even have access to something like that), and they told me that I needed internships to get hired. Well, I don’t have the means to take an unpaid internship - but that doesn’t matter to them, or to potential employers. So I’m graduating a week from tomorrow, unemployed, while my wealthier friends (whose parents bankrolled their summers of unpaid internships) have job offers. Sweet deal.