The Hamlet, Gardiner St., #Dublin, 1985.
From my #DublinBeforetheTiger series (1982-1992). For more info visit https://t.co/MrT74XBaUj pic.twitter.com/cEphqzqNhZ— David Jazay (@DavidJazay) July 8, 2020
Hic.
What replaced The Hamlet?
That is the question.
Anyone?
The work of Spanish artist David Moreno: long metal strips and piano wire soldered and welded together to create 3D ‘sketches’ of architectural elements.
Tape as an architectural element: safe distancing in Singapore, as chronicled by the Tape-Measures Instagram account.
San Francisco in quarantine by drone – an eerie sight for those who know the place – Fisherman’s Wharf, downtown, Market Street, the Haight – all deserted, apart from a few stragglers.
Now how about empty Vienna?
Or empty London.
Or empty Manhattan.
Or empty Dublin.
Behold: the Galleria department store in the Korean city of Gwanggyo, 25km south of Seoul.
Designed by OMA/Chris van Duijn, the facade features a replicating mosaic of precision cut triangular stones and bulging triangular opal windows apparently inspired in part by the nearby Suwon Gwanggyo Lake Park.
’x-lands’: an interesting concept by XTU architects whereby the inevitably defunct oil rigs of the future are transformed into offshore living space filled with greenery and powered by renewable energy.
Splendid isolation, in fairness.
These are sandcastles.
The brutalist sedimentary architecture of artist and sandcastle maestro Calvin Seibert, conjured from nothing more than sand and water, smoothed and levelled by knife, trowel and hand. Sez he:
I always start at the top and work down, taking great care to keep the horizontals level. I pretty much make things up as I go along, allowing surprises and engineering difficulties to shape the castles.
The satellite dish strewn high-rises of Algiers, Casablanca and Cairo photographed by Manuel Alvarez Diestro.
The glorious depth and symmetries of Gareth Pon’s architectural photography – each one with a tiny rocket concealed, ‘Where’s Wally’-style, within the composition.
How’s your eyesight?
From top: Ponte, Johannesburg (+detail); Chicago, Illinois (x3); Hong Kong (x2); Atlanta, Georgia (x2).
An artist’s impression of the new IKEA store at Vienna’s Westbahnhof station, where construction has just begun
Set for completion in early 2021, (though there’ll probably be a bunch of screws and a weird plastic thing left over), the store, with its green facade of 160 integrated trees and roof terrace, has no car parking spaces – a nod to Vienna’s first rate public transport system.
IKEA promises 24 hour delivery for any items that can’t be carried out by hand.
