Imagining a More Protected Coney Island of the Future

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Welcome back to Architecture 101, a new Curbed column in which writer Henry Melcher shares architecture students’ coolest ideas for New York City. Have a project we should see? Drop…

mobylosangelesarchitecture:

i just got back from detroit, where i was playing at the movement festival (which was as festivals go, i say with some objectivity, amazing).

i’ve been going to detroit since the late 80’s (as it is the birthplace of modern electronic music), and i’ve always loved it.

culturally and musically and artistically it’s a fascinating place, but it’s also fascinating in that it has more remarkable abandoned buildings than any other city in the western world (this might sound like hyperbole, but i’m guessing it’s actually true).

it’s worth stating that there are big parts of detroit that are not filled with abandoned buildings. and those are nice, too… but the parts of downtown detroit that are filled with beautiful old abandoned buildings are aesthetically amazing (as evidenced by the fact that lots and lots of people have taken pictures of them).

on saturday i had the afternoon off, so my friend shannon (who lives in a former abandoned building) took me on a bike ride around detroit to look at her favorite abandoned buildings (what she refers to as ‘ruin porn’).
here are some of my favorites.

and i hope that these buildings at some point get the love and care that they deserve. but in the meantime: ruin porn.

thanks,

moby

Yes, ESA Is Still Under Construction

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The biggest public transit infrastructure effort in the US is almost completely invisible — unless you’re 160 feet underground.

yonderplanets:

Milky Way - Andromeda Collision Animation (by SpaceWatch99)

Somewhere in a Parallel Universe...

Manhattan Memorious from Reiser + Umemoto on Vimeo.

Here is a very brilliant video depicting images of a Manhattan that never came to be. “Manhattan Memorious” features the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LoMax), Buckminster Fuller’s Dome over Midtown, and other vast unrealized projects.

The Jet Age by ~Ranchoth