One small voice.
The Venice Biennale is arguably the most significant event on the architectural calendar, and in the months leading up to it, stories of upcoming exhibitions showcasing new critical, technical and formal strategies are bound to be released. A particularly interesting critical analysis caught my attention, discussing the issue of being “neither urban nor suburban” (Merin, 2014), coined, through the merging of two obvious terms, the urburb.
Read MoreIt is of course hardly possible to discuss the entire one and a half hour lecture, as a result, I have for this post decided only to focus on the first half hour of the lecture, with a partial focus on my personal experience as an inhabitant of Hong Kong, exploring some of the ideas Prof. Ricky Burdett triggered with regard to my opinions of sustainability and the human experience.
Read MoreWhile lateral thinking and bold new directions are sometimes necessary in architecture, radicalism does need to be taken with a grain of salt. While perusing the usual flurry of internet articles on design, I came across the following proposal which on the surface, provides a utopic and radical rethink of waste management for New York City. The proposition was for massive new green islands to be built along the city’s harbour edge, providing necessary space for large organic composting facilities. It was argued that this project would tackle a multitude of existing problems, including “effectively alleviating congestion issues and dramatically lowers unnecessary energy waste while contributing 125 acres of public park land.” (Designboom, 2014).
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