#built environment

[semioticapocalypse]

Paul Strand. The Court. New York. 1924

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[that-gay-jedi]

FUN ARCHITECTURAL FACT:

Hospitals are not built! If you leave a labyrinth sitting around for too long without a minotaur, it will gradually sink into the earth and a hospital will grow in its place. The hospital keeps the original shape of the labyrinth that created it, but adds on new sections and dimensions of space as it grows. This is why it's so fucking hard to find your way around inside a hospital.

[visualratatosk]

Collective memories X, 2

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[robertmatejcek]

Borough Bloom  - mixed media - robert matejcek - 2023

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

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[nickstanley]

Means of egress

[blamebrampton]

Sitting here with some cracked ribs because gravity is my mortal enemy and I’m reminded that we will all at some point in our lives be disabled, unless we die young and cautious.

Accordingly, a built environment that’s accessible is for every one of us. When housing codes call for wider entries, that’s not an imposition, it’s wheelchairs and prams and pushchairs and kids’ bikes and armfuls of shopping bags. When ramps are stipulated, that’s not a burden on businesses, it’s access for the person whose knees are buggered, it’s getting your deliveries without risking someone’s back. When grab bars are installed, that’s not ugly, it’s letting the dumbarse who cracked her own ribs with her own elbow because she was focused on not faceplanting get up using less of her core, it’s giving older people more independence.

Unless you die young and cautious, you will one day be disabled. Let’s plan the built world with that in mind.

[andrewgrgo]

Santiago, Chile, 2023-09-14

[sdog1ablog]

[allcitiesarebeautiful]

FEATURE

Unconscious Places: Thomas Struth's Conceptual Approach to the Built Environment

Thomas Struth, Greenwich Street, New York, Tribeca 1978.

Thomas Struth’s work is characterized by a meticulous exploration of themes related to the human-environment relationship. His initial artistic practice involved capturing everyday scenes of mostly vacant streets. These photographs were first presented in 1987 at the Kunsthalle Bern in a solo exhibition titled ‹Unbewusste Orte› (Unconscious Places).

The title of this first body of work, ‹Unconscious Places,› directs attention to the psychosocial impact of urban spaces, influenced by both architects and inhabitants. Beyond European and North American cities, Struth’s photographs analytically explore various global sites. Over time, his method has evolved from a strict central perspective composition to a pictorial language that deviates from the original scheme, adapting to the architectural nuances of individual urban spaces.

Read more here → allcitiesarebeautiful.com.

[panoramicireland]

Trinity College's Campanile is one of Dublin's most famous buildings, finished in 1853 and designed by architect Charles Lanyon.

[semioticapocalypse]

Weegee. Herald Square - Looking North’ (Distortion). New York. 1940s

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[haxanbroker]

Lee Green, South London, April 2022.

[visualratatosk]

Collective memories X, 6

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[robertmatejcek]

Antwerp Vectorscape - vector illustration - robert matejcek - 2023

“City girl… You’re beautiful… I love you…"

- Kevin Shields - City Girl

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[f0restpunk]

Hyatt Regency, San Francisco 1974

[manifoldblog]

Emin Altan: Chernobyl, published by Manifold, 2023; 29 × 23.5 cm, 272 pages.