Design-BU8

January 24, 2012

A toilet never looked so good

Couldn’t believe this when I first read it in Maggie Black’s ‘The Last Taboo’ because the image was computer generated. In fact, this building shaped as a toilet was completed in 2007. Surprisingly, it looks fabulous!

http://www.designersparty.com/439

http://funnypile.blogspot.com/2010/01/toilet-house-haewoojae.html

December 27, 2011

Medellín escalators

Taking it to the next level…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16336759

November 2, 2011

Previ Housing, Lima by Charles Correa 1969-73

The basic overview from what is now Charles Correa Associates

http://www.charlescorrea.net/

Useful article on the history of program and its development including stuff on Turner and how this was one of the first top down led attempts to address Lima’s growing population of informal settlers.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.1234/pdf

Explains how the project was only half completed by architects due to political offcuts – the rest was completed out of the imagination of the inhabitants

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.1234/pdf

November 2, 2011

Park in the sky

More BU8 material but interesting none the less. A nice idea – a park on a disused railway stretch in NY.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15208873

http://inhabitat.com/new-yorks-high-line-park-in-the-sky-opens-today/

October 31, 2011

Design for the other 90%

This is where IDE had an exhibition in the US and I think also in Tokyo

http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/