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Parking Patterns
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Oscar Niemeyer
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Artificial Ice Islands
Islands fabricated from ice are becoming more prevalent as offshore oil speculation in the Arctic gains more interest. Ice has been a strategic building material in the Arctic for the construction of roads, airstrips, housing, and, in the last few decades, as temporary drilling platforms to explore for oil. Ice islands are formed by spraying ice into cold air (below 20 degrees F), and layering the ice until it reaches a thickened state.
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Kowloon walled city (picture 1989)
Up to 55.000 people lived in Kowloon walled city.
Unité d’Habitation by Le Corbusier, Marseille 1947-1952
Another picture of the amazing roof gardens.
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Unité d’Habitation by Le Corbusier, Marseille 1947-1952
The Unité d’Habitation is the modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier, with the collaboration of painter-architect Nadir Afonso.
The building, developed with Corbusier’s designers Shadrach Woods and George Candilis, comprises 337 apartments arranged over twelve stories, all suspended on large piloti. The building also incorporates shops, sporting, medical and educational facilities, and a hotel. The flat roof is designed as a communal terrace with sculptural ventilation stacks, a running track, and a shallow paddling pool.
Futurama by Norman Bel Geddes, 1939
“Speed is the cry of our era,” “Futurama” designer Bel Geddes explained, and he envisioned highways with curved sides that allowed cars in the outer lanes to travel safely at 100 miles per hour. In the world of the future, everything was streamlined, from the curved steel-and-glass skyscrapers in the cities to the teardrop shape of the vehicles that whizzed down the streets on automated radio control, while pedestrians strolled above them on second-story-level sidewalks
