Citycycles become the new public seating
People are starting to use the citycycle fixed bikes as public seating and hangout in lieu of seating. By colonising the bikes in this way, rather than the new share-bikes just taking part of the street, this infrastructure expands the pedestrian realm beyond the footpath.Although not a foreseen impact, it is a logical development on streets where provisions for people are minimal.
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Hey kid, you wanna see some pictures?
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Before the Storm. #downtown #cleveland #architecture
Cuyahoga County jail. View this on the map
Aerial view, Scottish Widows Offices, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, Sir Basil Spence. photograph by Henk Snoek, 1976.
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Moreover, the fictional Kem Roomhaus’s scheme to replace Wayne Central Station with “a massive replica of the rib cage of Megaptera nivaengliae, more commonly known as the humpback whale” is a wicked lampoon of Santiago Calatrava’s carcass-like, $3.8 billion Transportation Hub now under construction at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. (via Batman vs. Koolhaas by Martin Filler | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books)
A giant doughnut-shaped garden on the roofed junction of the Shuto Expressway in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward.
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It seems like Reagan National Airport could have been even nicer if it had ever been anticipated to someday have people using it.
(Seriously, lack of any sort of security accommodation might be excused, but it’s a case study in how not to design a public restroom.)
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Photo: Romain Jacquet-Lagreze
