April 22, 2013
The megacity of Shanghai is known for its futuristic skyscrapers, booming population, and economic dominance—not for bucolic images of mountain ranges. Perhaps that is why we immediately thought of a twisting, looping roller coaster when we spotted this brand new bridge designed by Shanghai-based CA Group on psfk, which was meant to evoke the peaks of mountains not found in the region.
Making its way across a river, the bridge seems to echo the energy and motion of the world’s most populated city, rather than giving its residents a distant feeling of nature. The dynamic arches are visually striking, recalling that nervous, excited feeling of plunging down a colossal coaster. However, they also function to support the bridge’s infrastructure. See for yourself!
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January 30, 2012
Can you see it?
It seems that a rising trend in architecture is actually an older trend in magic: making large things disappear. Sou Fujimoto’s plans for a tower in Taiwan takes a stab at such a feat, using porous walls that allow views of the city to penetrate through the superstructure as if it were a curtain of mesh. Now, international practice GDS Architects are setting out to build what will allegedly be the world’s first invisible tower, an observation ‘anti tower’ that will be the first design proposal for a landmark that earns its keep by essentially refusing to be a landmark. More after the break.
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January 26, 2012
Haven her body was | Warren, Lightjet, 168 x 208, 2011
In a recent interview, London-based French photographer Noemie Goudal told Yatzer, “I don’t think my pictures invite anyone into a fantasy world but rather a place made from the real that questions the fantasies, desires, and fragility of the viewer.” Goudal’s photographs overlay portals into natural worlds over post-industrial ruins and infuse mystical atmospheres into bleak, lifeless spaces, hopelessly tangling the natural and the manmade, the real and the fictional. More after the break.
Wind, Color Photograph, 111 x 140 cm, 2008
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