Super Colossal wishes you a splendid summer.
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- Daniel Neville shows the logo and stamp set for the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen. The design by NR2154 is a densely woven ball of lines suggesting the interconnectedness of ecological systems, nations and international legislature.
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- Archinect are hosting a competition in response to Switzerland’s bizarre banning the construction of minarets within the country. The competition—Switzerland, We Have a Problem—calls for proposals for a deployable minaret:
“To address this impasse between the rightful expression of the Muslim religion and the value of Switzerland’s overwhelmingly scenic environment we challenge you to design a solution that allows the best of both worlds. Can you design a minaret as event rather than object?”
Elsewhere, Sam Jacobs, draws a parallel to that country’s taste for minimalism in which the ideology of purity can not sustain such decorative elements:“It’s interesting to see the language of architecture caught up in this ideological crossfire. This episode underlines how architectures language is part of wider culture. That what it represents and how it represents it is deeply significant.”
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- Olafur Eliasson is speaking at the MCA next Thursday ahead of the opening of a major exhibition of his works. You may know Mr Eliasson from that time he installed the sun in the Tate Modern.
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- Space food. Collated by maybe my new favourite image blog; Feasting Never Stops.
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- User interface design for cinema by Mark Coleran:
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