June 6, 2011
The New York Times enlightens those of us whose body of knowledge regarding tornados is based mainly on the 1996 classic Twister. [via NYT]
F.A.T. Lab has a whole series of posts regarding ways to carry out digital disobediance in protest of Ai Weiwei’s continuing detainment. [via F.A.T. Lab]
Former Bullring, new mall: Barcelona’s newly converted Las Arenas by Richard Rogers follows a familiar historical trajectory. [via The Guardian]
Pentagram has designed a new identity campaign for NYC Parks, with patterned play on the leaf. [via PSFK]
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October 14, 2010
The last few years have seen the breakthrough of interactive technologies into the mainstream. “Interactive architecture” can mean a lot of different things, but in this case, we’re using the phrase to refer to place-based installations that intervene in the built environment and react to their surroundings. These projects, and their creators, are using (relatively!) simple technologies to reorient the relationships between user, architect, and structure (yell, move, draw, jump – and change a facade!).
There’s a huge amount of diversity in the following videos: some are processing-based projects, some are all about the social experience of the intervention, others are geurilla-style covert ops that cease to exist after just a few hours. Many of them explore the building envelope – as a canvas, a permeable surface, or a performance space. Click through for ten great videos.
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