Tag: architecture
All the articles with the tag "architecture".
Urban eXperiment - Secret Paris restoration
Wired has a great story on Urban eXperiment in Paris titled The New French Hacker-Artist Underground . I've heard little bits about Untergunther through other stories via Urban Exploration, but Jon La…
25th Street Renaissance in Golden Hill
The Examiner notes that this is the year work starts on a large number of changes to 25th street in Golden Hill , San Diego. I am looking forward to seeing the changes when completed, it will give the…
Balboa Theatre
Last night a generous coworker gave us tickets to the opening night preview of Spring Awakening at the newly renovated Balboa Theatre . The theatre has been in a state of neglect for a very long time …
Untergunther cleared over charges from fixing the Panthéon's clock
The Guardian has good news on the fascinating Untergunther group in Paris : Four members of an underground "cultural guerrilla" movement known as the Untergunther, whose purpose is to restore France's…
GreenBuilt
It is almost that time of year again, The GreenBuilt Tour 2006 is set for September 16-17. The tour features 14 sites of varying shades of green. Some sites are almost self contained and built green f…
Calgary sprawl
(This is an older post that I never got around to publishing) I certainly can't fault Jim Kunstler's view of recent development in Calgary - "..archetypal city of immense glass boxes in a sterilized c…
Urban Exploration
I learned here that Ninjalicious, the guy behind infiltration.org, has released a book: Access All Areas - A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration . However, I also learned this bit of sad news…
Do it yourself
Prefab and you don't want to do much work? Target might have something for you . Actually, it looks like the work (done by Christopher C Deam ) might just be a " modern trailer park ". Somehow I think…
Poly Canyon - experimental architecture
(All photos for this are posted here ) On Friday of our Central Coast vacation we went to explore Poly Canyon . Poly Canyon is a nice outdoor area behind the California Polytechnic State University ca…
John Prine and John Spreckels' Legacy
(All photos for this are posted here ) Friday, May 13th. Anna and I went to see John Prine at Spreckels Theatre . I wasn't very familiar with his music, but Anna convinced me I would like him. She was…