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11
Feb
2012
A Cozy New Student Center at Coventry University

20 hours ago by admin

Student’s centers are those comfortable hang-out spots at universities that combine studying with social life during your years of college. Coventry’s new student center ‘the hub’ (sited at the center of the university campus) designed by Hawkins\Brown Architects is one of the best. For many student ...

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Noisolation Headphones // music

1 day ago by Sebastian Alvarez

Our ears can’t blink. It is an observation that is frequently raised in areas of study such as biology, sociology and sound theory. This is used to demonstrate how valuable listening has been to our evolutionary development. It also points to why noise is so intrusive and imposing since we can’t eas ...

WANDERLUST - wanderlustmind.com · Rank: 43,260 · 25 references

10
Feb
2012
Anish Kapoor’s Bean Gets a Light Show

1 day ago by kchan

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Architectural light shows seem to be having their halcyon days, as more artists, architects and designers are turning to nighttime neon projections to breathe life into already incredible spaces. Last year, Lyon’s Festival of Lights saw a building reprogrammed into a massive playable pinball machine ...

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SUNN: Vancouver Historic Quartiers —The Dollar-Cost of Housing the Homeless

1 day ago by Frank Murphy

Social Housing should be part of the regional system, incorporated into neighbourhood planning from the outset. — Lewis N. Villegas, The Gastown Principles , March 2011. Alexander Street in Gastown, pictured here, presents a microcosm of a workable housing strategy. In this photo we see co-op housin ...

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A second winner at this year's Super Bowl: the walkable downtown

1 day ago by Robert Steuteville

Walkability's been an emerging issue in urban development for years — but Indianapolis just illustrated its value to everyone in the tourism business, according to one expert. read more

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Transparency Grenade

1 day ago by Sebastian Alvarez

The lack of Corporate and Governmental transparency has been a topic of much controversy in recent years, yet our only tool for encouraging greater openness is the slow, tedious process of policy reform. Presented in the form of a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade, the Transparency Grenade is an iconic cure fo ...

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09
Feb
2012
Photographers — Know Your Rights

2 days ago by NVRDC

Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law en ...

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08
Feb
2012
Visual timeline of courtyards in Moscow

3 days ago by petersigrist

This is an evolving collection of images arranged as chronologically as possible to trace the transformation of public green space around Moscow apartment buildings over the past 100 years. Like the list of archives, I'll be updating this page frequently with more information. 41-й – 52-й микрорайон ...

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CONFERENCE :: pour une anthropologie des milieux sonores

3 days ago by phonopolis

Journées d’études internationales 16 et 17 février 2012 organisées par le collectif MILSON, avec le soutien de la Fondation Fyssen Présentation Le collectif MILSON propose de dresser un état des lieux des problématiques et méthodes utilisées dans différents champs disciplinaires (architecture, scien ...

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Opportunity: Call for Public Art in the Garment District

3 days ago by Megan

The Fashion Center Business Improvement District is seeking artists for a public art installation on the outdoor plazas on Broadway in the Fashion District for this coming Summer, 2012: "As part of a program to enhance the public environment and to increasing community access to art, the FCBID is in ...

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