by natecooper | Aug 21, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, art, cities, culture, los angeles, new york, technology
natecooper.net is making it appear as if all I’ve been reading is cracked.com and BLDGBLOG. Could be worse I guess. BLDGBLOG’s discussion of “extreme signage” [link] does pique my interest. I don’t know if I fully agree with the...
by natecooper | Aug 15, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture
On a recent visit to Boston I found myself looking for the healing scars of the massive Big Dig. Mostly I was interested in the city spaces created above the buried freeway. BLDGBLOG has an interesting article [link] that wonders how the psychology of individuals in a...
by natecooper | Jun 18, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, cities, technology, world
Urban Planning Blog has found a nifty video of a concept train that basically never stops. [link] Seems like what happens is that arriving passengers head towards a smaller train on the top of the main train and this train rolls to a stop at the station while at the...
by natecooper | Jun 5, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, cities, culture, world
Woman with objects fetish marries Eiffel Tower – Telegraph “She revisits the massive structure as part of a documentary on Five on Objectum-Sexual women. There are around 40 people in the world who have declared themselves OS, all of them women and many of...
by natecooper | Jun 3, 2008 | architecture, culture, los angeles, san francisco
John King, architectural critic for the SF Chronicle and the only newspaper columnist in my google reader takes a trip to L.A. and reports back about some of the new buildings and communities that have recently opened [link] “Next to the Cheesecake Factory...
by natecooper | May 8, 2008 | architecture, Brooklyn, cities, culture, new york, politics
A really interesting article about gentrification and how to confront it in new and interesting ways: [link] (via BLAST) What strikes me most about the article is this conception of the influx of young, middle-class into the neighborhood as somehow devouring the...