Rio de Janeiro 1936 – “City of Splendour”
North American documentary on Rio de Janeiro, made in 1936.
Archive for January, 2009
GTA SP 2013
Brazilian cartoonist Luís Shiavon spent 4 years adapting the computer game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) to São Paulo. In this parodic version of the game, famous for urban violence, he included streets of São Paulo in 3 dimensions with grafitti by contemporary grafitti artists, people such as George W. Bush, agents and vehicles of the [...]
Gaza density
Urban density in Gaza (left) and Israel (right) The Gaza strip, a narrow corridor of 6-12 km width and an area of 360 square km, is one of the densest territories on earth. If it were recognized as a sovereign country it would by fourth in population density worldwide, after Monaco, Singapore and Gibraltar. The [...]
*Multiplicities at ORDOS 100
New York based office *Multiplicities presents its project for ORDOS 100, an experimental housing development at the fringes of the Mongolian desert with 100 houses, designed by 100 young architects. See the earlier post about the ORDOS urban scheme. The house on parcel number 24 features an X-shaped set of white voids captured in a [...]
