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The designers of the London Eye, architects Marks & Barfield , are confident that their upwardly mobile replacement for the wrecked West Pier will be open by 2011. Work has already begun on the i360 project which has already been dubbed an 'iSore' by its critics. It will consist of...
Published on 11/15/2008 in diaphania | Read more ...
David W. Dunlap at the NYT ( The Towers of Memory, Before and After ) compares views from 1978 and 2008. (Photo credit: Dunlap/NYT)
Published on 09/11/2008 in Beyond Rivalry | Read more ...
I do like lists. For the prevaricator, the making of them is a satisfying way of delaying the work itself. For the anorak (and we all secretly have an anorak within, don't we?) lists are all about neatness and order and collecting. Like butterflies pinned down under glass, lists fix the wor...
Published on 06/08/2008 in diaphania | Read more ...
I've driven by this building several times in the past month going to estate sales in this part of El Paso, and I think it's so cool. Today I was finally able to stop and snap a picture. It's 3D signs mounted to the second floor of what looks like a currently operating plumbing business. ...
Published on 05/25/2008 in Art Spirals | Read more ...
A quick trip to London's Number 1 Poultry today. If you can get to the impressive roof garden there are stunning views that more than make up for the irksomely courageous whimsy of the controversial architecture. Peter Palumbo spent decades acquiring the site site piecemeal from 1958. His...
Published on 05/19/2008 in diaphania | Read more ...
“If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna” said Napoleon. A tall order for the art-lover with just four days in which to attempt to do justice to the major sites. The Kunsthistorisches, the Albertina, the Belvedere, the Imperial Library, the Ephesus and the Musical Instrument collections, t...
Published on 04/06/2008 in diaphania | Read more ...
Given John Prescott MP's unlikely reputation as a lothario, it seems right that he be remembered for giving permision for London's most thrusting new erection - Renzo Piano's 'shard of glass' at London Bridge. Piano describes it as "a vertical town for about 7,000 people" based on "London's her...
Published on 12/13/2007 in diaphania | Read more ...
I haven't made the time to sketch every day, as I was in the beginning of the year, but here are the sketches I have been able to do this fall. In continuing with yesterday's theme, here's another piece of El Paso architecture. I had fifteen minutes between appointments and I drove around downt...
Published on 12/10/2007 in Art Spirals | Read more ...
Here's a historic apartment building that I sketched earlier in the year. Today I had the wonderful opportunity to tour it and six other historic buildings in the Sunset Heights Historical District of El Paso. This is the area where people would sit on their front porches and watch the battle...
Published on 12/09/2007 in Art Spirals | Read more ...
Fascinating idea I've never come across before, from French philosopher Michel Foucault via John Doyle at Ktismatics : " Society designates sites for work, for recreation, for rest, for education, for transportation, and so on. What interests Foucault in particular are 'counter-...
Published on 03/20/2007 in Beyond Rivalry | Read more ...
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