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Clemens Gritl
Indy had founded an organisation called Dark Matter Labs as an architecture-practice-meets-think-tank- meets-innovation-consultancy (my summary) when he realised that the kind of housing projects he wanted to develop – projects that prized community and human connection – were virtually impossible within the framework of contemporary property right
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A World Nobody Wants
compactmag.comThe two thousand tenants formed a virtually homogeneous collection of well-to-do professional people—lawyers, doctors, tax consultants, senior academics and advertising executives, along with a smaller group of airline pilots, film-industry technicians and trios of air-hostesses sharing apartments. By the usual financial and educational yardsticks
... See moreJ. G. Ballard • High-Rise: A Novel
a familiar object blown up beyond monumental scale to yield something at once amusing and disquieting.)
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Die Hard asks naive but powerful questions: If you have to get from A to B —that is, from the 31st floor to the lobby, or from the 26th floor to the roof—why not blast, carve, shoot, lockpick, and climb your way there, hitchhiking rides atop elevator cars and meandering through the labyrinthine, previously unexposed back-corridors of the built envi... See more
Geoff Manaugh • Nakatomi Space
Even the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or, more ambiguously, recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways. Laing pondered this—sometimes he found it difficult not to believe that they were living in a future t
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