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Archive for the ‘City’ Category
Creative Industries Conference 2010
May 8, 2010world’s first sustainable city
August 29, 2009The winning design by the international practice Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) for the city centre for Masdar in the UAE – will be amazingly, the world’s first “zero carbon”, “zero waste” city powered entirely by renewable energy sources!
Masdar is a planned city located 17 kilometres from Abu Dhabi. a government initiative, and the city is being constructed over seven phases due to be completed by 2016, not that far ahead aye… I would love to visit!
So, yes, this city center will ofcourse include a Plaza, a Five-Star hotel, a long stay hotel, a Convention Centre and an Entertainment Complex as well as retail facilities! Ok, now I am really convinced to visit maybe by 2017…
all image courtesy of LAVA
frames, boundaries, fences, walls,
August 25, 2009To be aware of ourselves, our identity, to elevate ourselves, self-importance, ownership, national pride, all these human behaviours are such that we build walls and fences around us. From the very earlierst of times, frames around the landscape whether it is our current invisible borders between countries, or a simple wooden frames around our favorite picture, it tells of how we as humans, have had the need to distinguish us from them, self from others in the name of nationality, identity, nativity, indigenousness, etc.
Here are some evidences manifested in a town plannings of “walled cities” ::
Cassonne, France.
Below: Noerdlingen, Germany
Below – Heusden and Naarden, Netherlands::
Below – Utrecht, in the Netherlands::
(all images via – dark roasted blend)
Below – Villandry Gardens::
Below – Mona Lisa::
Re-imagining Paris à la monseiur Sarkozy
June 11, 2009President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to leave his legacy as others have done before him. For his “Le Grand Paris” project, he has invited 10 teams of architects to reimagine Paris as a city integrated with its suburbs and environmentally responsible. These are some interesting developments:
via NYtimes
of travel-time and timelines…
January 11, 2009Happy New Year everyone! Hope all your travels to faraway or nearby lands went well. Talking of travel, I just love those maps in the back of in-flight magazines with all the flight routes sprouting out like a firework. The GEM – European Commision’s “Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility” shows a similar map which captures our (today’s world) “connectivity and the concentration of economic activity and also highlights that there is little wilderness left. The map shows how accessible some parts of the world have become whilst other regions have remained isolated.
Travel time to major cities (in hours and days) and shipping lane density.
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Our connectivity through visual communication has come a long way; from the beautiful cave paintings of the earliest known homosapiens to today’s subliminally powerful world of advertising. Citrinitas has a wonderful wonderful collection of images showcasing our visual communication history timeline.
all images courtesy of citrinitas.
London from above.
September 2, 2008Perhaps I have been watching too much sci-fi movies, or perhaps I simply love visualizing city planning and such. The urban fabric of London is spectacular, seen from above as in this photograph. It’s almost Blade Runnerisque. More visual treats here.
