Among the seemingly endless list of events I manage to miss is the symposium Ballardian Architecture: Inner and Outer Space, held at the Royal Academy of Arts on 15 May 2010. Fortunately, the organisers have posted a series of video clips of the talks. Click here for programme.
Ballardian Architecture 3 - David Cunningham from static tv on Vimeo.
Friday, October 08, 2010
Border Patrol Colouring Book
Public Collectors is a fantastic website where 'collectors allow the contents of their collection to be published and permit those who are curious to directly experience the objects in person.' One of the great finds here is a PDF of a colouring book for children produced by the U.S. Border Patrol Museum, El Paso, Texas. Can you help the detector dog find the illegal drugs? Click here and scroll down to find the complete book.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Thursday, September 02, 2010
The Andromeda Strain
Each floor of the bunker is a different colour, intended to reflect different psychological states. And matching paper uniforms.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Fail-Safe
Almost entirely set inside an imagined presidential bunker, Fail-Safe (1964), along with Dr Strangelove (1964), established the subterranean control centre as the decisive absent presence of Cold War spatial politics.
Ken Adam
- Horatia Harrod, 'Ken Adam: The Man who Drew the Cold War,' The Telegraph, 28 Sep 2008.
- Piece on Ken Adam from The Journal of Geebird&Bamby Co.
- Frieze review of the 2000 Ken Adams exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Issue 51 March-April 2000.
- Tim Noakes, 'Ken Adam; Drawn to the Movies,' socialsterotype.com, 2008.
- BBC audiovisual slideshow on Ken Adam: 'Designing for 007'.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Memoire Hotel
Unused/unissued 1974 material from the British Pathé news website.
[Click image - video opens in new window].
[Click image - video opens in new window].
Friday, August 27, 2010
Tower Dance Club
Luckily, recent plans to develop Riverside Road seem to have come to nothing (see this site for comments on the proposed development) and the Friends of Riverside Road appear to be doing a good job sticking up for the area. Other structures like the 'dolphin' jetties and the lifeboat house might have more heritage appeal but an abandoned postwar dance club lost among the welding yards is a ready made winner.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Newcastle Central Library
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Almost secret entrance
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Demolition video already posted here. OK, it was hardly glamorous but once the thrill of large open interior space wears off, the new building feels like a cross between a duty free outlet and a sixth form center, but with more noise. Every effort has been made to disguise the fact that this is a library.   |
Monday, August 09, 2010
Birmingham City Library
John Madin's remarkable 1974 Birmingham Central Library is set to be demolished. A new glittery library is on offer, but where's the improvement? Not sure what the move to replace a flak tower with a tissue box tells us about contemporary urban space.
- Paul Dale, 'End in sight for Birmingham Library after Government refuses listed status,' Birmingham Post, Nov 23 2009.
- English Heritage response, Nov 23 2009.
- Promotional site for the proposed new Library of Birmingham, including interviews with children speaking as if, without the new library, there will be no books in the city for them to read.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
Andrew Freeman
(Manzanar) Architectural Double.
The buildings at the Japanese American WWII internment camp at Manzanar were relocated and reused after the war, effectively dismantling the material evidence of the camp's existence. Between 2001 and 2004 Andrew Freeman tracked the buildings down and photographed them.
The buildings at the Japanese American WWII internment camp at Manzanar were relocated and reused after the war, effectively dismantling the material evidence of the camp's existence. Between 2001 and 2004 Andrew Freeman tracked the buildings down and photographed them.
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#11.4.01 - Mount Whitney Rifle Club, Lone Pine, California.
N 36°36.156’, W118°03.749’
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Friday, August 06, 2010
Working the Line
Good information and images on this project and related things here:
- The 98th Parallel at a456.
- Working the Line at BLDGBLOG
- GeoCaching the Mexican Border Obelisk Monuments at Groundspeak Forums
- David Taylor's Working the Line at Fraction Magazine
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
High-Ballin (1978)
Featuring Peter Fonda and Jerry Reed, we're not at the bottom of the 1978 truckin' barrel yet.
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Steel Cowboy (1978)
There is seemingly no end to these trucking films. Another one from 1978, this time with James Brolin and Rip Torn.
Monday, August 02, 2010
See Amy Cutler's The Ethics of Dust
Series of installations by Jorge Otero-Pailos undertaken to conserve pollution.
- Jorge Otero-Pailos website
- Interview with Otero-Pailos
- Another interview
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Gateshead Trinity Square Car Park
Thompson of Prudhoe have got the job of demolishing this beast.
Thompson promise time-lapse footage of the demolition. The video of the Newcastle library demolition can be seen here. The new library is shiny but the old one was resplendently 'fuck off.' As Owen Hatherley points out in The Guardian, the car park is making way for a Tesco store with student flats on top. There's a form of beligerence in that, too, but it's nowhere near as bracing as stacked concrete parking spaces.
Thompson promise time-lapse footage of the demolition. The video of the Newcastle library demolition can be seen here. The new library is shiny but the old one was resplendently 'fuck off.' As Owen Hatherley points out in The Guardian, the car park is making way for a Tesco store with student flats on top. There's a form of beligerence in that, too, but it's nowhere near as bracing as stacked concrete parking spaces.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
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