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Permutations of a theme:
1) The Palms: Pruned visits Dubai for the first time.
2) Atlantis Rising: the making of an artificial archipelago.
3) Beached: the self-replicating, self-similar geology of Chicago's mercurial edge.
4) Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers: the sort of seafaring vessel you need to rehabilitate dying beaches, fortify riverbanks, recontour ports and harbors, construct offshore multi-terminal airports or realize a real estate developer's wettest wet dream.
5) Climate Ghettos: some will be saved and some will simply drop to the sea.
6) The Army Corps of Engineers: The Game.
7) The Sands of Singapore: on mineral piracy; the then still booming global construction industry; immigrant topographies; and of course, Kiefer Sutherland in 24: The Movie.
8) Galveston on Stilts: a proto-Archigram city in quasi-flight.
9) Real Estate for the Future: setting the stage for the real estate boom and bust, the cycle of irrational exuberance and spectacular crash, ~10,000 years from now.
10) The Retreating Village: disaster urbanism.
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11) Pure Geography: an oceanside trail in Chile that is knocks-you-unconcsious-and-petrifies-your-soul-as-if-falling-eternally-into-the-abyss terrifying.
12) Venice on Stilts: another proposal to save La Serenissima.
13) Sand Wars: “industrial Brindisi” vs. “elegant, baroque Lecce”.
14) The Great Climate Change Park: on Ashley Kelly and Rikako Wakabayashi's winning entry for the Envisioning Gateway competition.
15) Microcoasts: Vicente Guallart's orthogonal paramecium genetically modified with an Autobot's DNA (or not).
16) A Field Guide to the Public Beaches Of Malibu: how to access your beach.
17) Fish Works: aquaculture in Brooklyn.
18) 10 Meters of Extended US Coastline: a temporary art installation by Danish artist Nikolaj Recke.
19) Operation Beachhead: Andrew Stacey's photographs of coastal fortification at Happisburgh, England.
20) Constituency of Ignorance: quoting at length Cornelia Dean's Against the Tide.
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21) “A new approach to management of the American shoreline is urgently needed”: again quoting at length Cornelia Dean's Against the Tide.
22) Coastal Retreat: from a vernacular architecture of Victorian social conventions to a zeitgeist architecture of fiscal sobriety.
23) Other Bathing Machines: King Alfonso's architecturally riotous beach furniture.
24) Anti-Tsunami Landscapes: what if the Army Corps of Engineers hired Peter Eisenman.
25) This House Turns and Returns, Too: the future adaptive re-use of the future Pavilion of the Netherlands, designed by John Körmeling for Expo 2010 Shanghai.
26) Nomadic Hotels and Lighthouses: wishing there was YouTube in the 1880s.
27) The Supersurface of Architectural Diaspora: of course.
28) Turkey Point Canals: a nuclear power plant's cooling canals, which are also part of a wildlife preserve for rare alligators.
29) Traces and Trajectories: Smout Allen's Retreating Village returns briefly.
30) Ebola Island: hilarious, if not frightening.
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Super-Slurry
Permutations of a theme:
1) The Palms: Pruned visits Dubai for the first time.
2) Atlantis Rising: the making of an artificial archipelago.
3) Beached: the self-replicating, self-similar geology of Chicago's mercurial edge.
4) Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers: the sort of seafaring vessel you need to rehabilitate dying beaches, fortify riverbanks, recontour ports and harbors, construct offshore multi-terminal airports or realize a real estate developer's wettest wet dream.
5) Climate Ghettos: some will be saved and some will simply drop to the sea.
6) The Army Corps of Engineers: The Game.
7) The Sands of Singapore: on mineral piracy; the then still booming global construction industry; immigrant topographies; and of course, Kiefer Sutherland in 24: The Movie.
8) Galveston on Stilts: a proto-Archigram city in quasi-flight.
9) Real Estate for the Future: setting the stage for the real estate boom and bust, the cycle of irrational exuberance and spectacular crash, ~10,000 years from now.
10) The Retreating Village: disaster urbanism.
11) Pure Geography: an oceanside trail in Chile that is knocks-you-unconcsious-and-petrifies-your-soul-as-if-falling-eternally-into-the-abyss terrifying.
12) Venice on Stilts: another proposal to save La Serenissima.
13) Sand Wars: “industrial Brindisi” vs. “elegant, baroque Lecce”.
14) The Great Climate Change Park: on Ashley Kelly and Rikako Wakabayashi's winning entry for the Envisioning Gateway competition.
15) Microcoasts: Vicente Guallart's orthogonal paramecium genetically modified with an Autobot's DNA (or not).
16) A Field Guide to the Public Beaches Of Malibu: how to access your beach.
17) Fish Works: aquaculture in Brooklyn.
18) 10 Meters of Extended US Coastline: a temporary art installation by Danish artist Nikolaj Recke.
19) Operation Beachhead: Andrew Stacey's photographs of coastal fortification at Happisburgh, England.
20) Constituency of Ignorance: quoting at length Cornelia Dean's Against the Tide.
21) “A new approach to management of the American shoreline is urgently needed”: again quoting at length Cornelia Dean's Against the Tide.
22) Coastal Retreat: from a vernacular architecture of Victorian social conventions to a zeitgeist architecture of fiscal sobriety.
23) Other Bathing Machines: King Alfonso's architecturally riotous beach furniture.
24) Anti-Tsunami Landscapes: what if the Army Corps of Engineers hired Peter Eisenman.
25) This House Turns and Returns, Too: the future adaptive re-use of the future Pavilion of the Netherlands, designed by John Körmeling for Expo 2010 Shanghai.
26) Nomadic Hotels and Lighthouses: wishing there was YouTube in the 1880s.
27) The Supersurface of Architectural Diaspora: of course.
28) Turkey Point Canals: a nuclear power plant's cooling canals, which are also part of a wildlife preserve for rare alligators.
29) Traces and Trajectories: Smout Allen's Retreating Village returns briefly.
30) Ebola Island: hilarious, if not frightening.
Super-Slurry
Ebola Island
The New York Times paid a visit this week to a national biological defense lab. Scientists there will “do research into some of the nastiest diseases on the planet, among them Ebola, anthrax, tularemia, West Nile virus, drug-resistant tuberculosis, bubonic plague, avian influenza and typhus.”
If that isn't fascinating enough, the lab's “gleaming new building” happens to be located in one of the most unstable types of landform and where hurricanes regularly make a mess of things: the barrier island of Galveston, Texas.
Says the lab's deputy director, “The entire island can wash away and this is still going to be here.”
A gleaming biological bunker, as impenetrable and monolithic as CIA HQ, a Pandora Box protruding out in a landscape of ruins and shifting sands.
Perhaps the next lab will be on an oil rig?
The New York Times paid a visit this week to a national biological defense lab. Scientists there will “do research into some of the nastiest diseases on the planet, among them Ebola, anthrax, tularemia, West Nile virus, drug-resistant tuberculosis, bubonic plague, avian influenza and typhus.”
If that isn't fascinating enough, the lab's “gleaming new building” happens to be located in one of the most unstable types of landform and where hurricanes regularly make a mess of things: the barrier island of Galveston, Texas.
Built atop concrete pylons driven 120 feet into the ground, the seven-floor laboratory was designed to stand up to 140-mile-an-hour winds. Its backup generators and high-security laboratories are 30 feet above sea level.
Says the lab's deputy director, “The entire island can wash away and this is still going to be here.”
A gleaming biological bunker, as impenetrable and monolithic as CIA HQ, a Pandora Box protruding out in a landscape of ruins and shifting sands.
Perhaps the next lab will be on an oil rig?
Traces and Trajectories
Just remembered that we have these photos of Smout Allen's model of their marvelous Retreating Village. They complement a recent post so well that we can't help but post them.
