Man, it’s been a while between drinks and my ‘to post’ folder grows larger by the day… So let’s get all Things Mag about it and dump some paragraphs of linkage.
As seen above, SC favourite Hiroshi Sugimoto has a new series of photographs documenting paths of electric current on exhibition in San Fransisco. Just when libraries as libraries are rediscovering their relevance, Philadelphia decides to close all of theirs.
The finalists from the UPTO35 competition for student housing in Athens have been announced. Add this to the long list of competitions we started work on but never submitted. Oh well, some interesting proposals in the shortlist. Maybe you remember that there will be SMS voting for the second stage, so keep your eye on their site for updates. And speaking of competitions, fi5e has been awarded first place in archinect and Buslter’s Live Forever: Michael Jackson Monument Competition with a proposal that sits adeptly across media, politics, intellectual property, and pop music. And finally, for those not disillusioned from the first round, UTS is holding another competition, this time for an extension to the podium of the tower building on Broadway.
Photographs of the olden days. But in colour. The medium of colour photography compressing time and bringing an immediacy and familiarity to the otherwise alien world of 19th Century Russia. InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office are authoring the next issue of Pamphlet Architecture titled Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism. Infranet is one of my favourite blogs, so I have high hopes for this one. Archdaily lists the 10 Top Websites of Architecture Offices. We have our own bias, and they are far better than the flash-riddled sites that plague a lot oaf architecture offices site, but all of these sites are essentially the same portfolio model with different skins.
New Weird Australia compiles excellent new and sometimes weird music from this continent. Two volumes are available for download. About NSW is a comprehensive mashup of census data, historic records, artefacts, maps etc on New South Wales. The Nutritional Impossibility of Australia speculates that Australia’s relatively late discovery by Europeans was due to the length of time it took for scurvy to take hold. And once they did arrive, of course, they discovered that citrus is not in high supply in these parts. The article then goes on to make an association with the nutritional challenges of space travel, something I thought was solved successfully long ago.
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