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NOVEMBER 2012 Electromagnetic Test Town Drawing Building Hearing The Cell and the Pyramid Mehrangarh Fort Hydro-Monuments of Rajasthan Chand Baori OCTOBER 2012 Lebbeus Woods, 1940-2012 Dismantling Lower Manhattan National Park Wall Mart Cliff Nest Sleeping Astronaut Causes Earthquake on the Moon Memorial to a Buried Village Landscapes by Remote Control Founding Landscapes Keys to the City Garage Warfare Version Control Gossamer Systems Lost Rivers The City and its Citadels 24-hour bookstore people SEPTEMBER 2012 Awakener Caves of Nottingham Applied Topology AUGUST 2012 The Auditory Configuration of Hell Morse Road Bradbury Landing British Exploratory Land Archive As if dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers Striper Dot Urbanism Maze Machine Garden Roundhouse Foundations New York City Sand Pit War Sand DredgeFest 2012 Sailing beneath the city Tuned Rocks Field Studies London Bells / Urban Instruments The Moon and the Meadowlands Highways and Rivers Bureau Below, buried beneath the very roots of the trees A narrative from the swamps of Borneo JULY 2012 Fire-Walking New York City Fields of the Future Urban Target Complex National Monument JUNE 2012 Various forms of lithic disguise Primary Landscapes Perpetual Architecture Venue Buncefield Bomb Garden Buy an Underground Kingdom O.P. Tree Books Received MAY 2012 Buy a Prison Hotels in Zero-G There's No One There / Man-Made Lands Mobile Surroundsound Vitamin C and Aloe Under Angeles SubBrit Secret Soviet Cities Perhaps it is not a city Papercraft Mega City Soundtrack Water vs. World Lost Lakes of the Empire State Building Astrobiology and Drowned Nations Performing Mars APRIL 2012 Breaking Out and Breaking In Finale Ephemeral islands and other states-in-waiting Glass Hills of Mars Hydro-Electro-Musical Machinery Building in a Bottle Every House Has Cracks Ghost Town Climatology New York Quarry Star Garden Spaces on Spec Tunnel Plug Making Waves Desert of the Real MARCH 2012 Caves of New York Burying Bits of the City: Hong Kong Underground Room and Billboard BeetleCam Demolition Composites Off to India Star Wheel Horizon Discipline & Punish: Papillon (1973) FEBRUARY 2012 Mining the Lower East Side Ground Environment Déjà Vu Autonomous Angels of Maintenance HoverMast Where'd the road go?: Cool Hand Luke (1967) Cropped Forensic Flowers The Pop It Up Electric Landscapes Ball Games: The Great Escape (1963) Liberation Terroir: The Great Escape (1963) Initial Points How to dismantle your door: A Man Escaped (1956) Making Planning Popular Object Cancers Landscape Architecture for Machines JANUARY 2012 A Prison Camp is for Escaping: Grand Illusion (1937) Architectural Nonessentials Breaking Out and Breaking In Landscapes of Dredge Space Jack Submarine City Drone Landscapes, Intelligent Geotextiles, Geographic Countermeasures Remnant Infrastructure Loop Geography as Defensive Tactic The Baffler DECEMBER 2011 Bioluminescent Billboards Ice Island Infrastructure We Can Move It For You Wholesale Return of the Brick Swarm Speleological Superparks Brooklyn Vent Drone Tax A 7-Mile Rainbow for Kim Jong-il Portfolio Futures House of the Cave Bear Mine Plug Psychometric Drawing Experiments, Architectural Non Sequiturs, and Free Association Urban by Nature Sutured San Francisco The Architecture of Banana Control The Rounds NOVEMBER 2011 Horizon Repair The Limits of Preservation Brick Swarm Detection Landscapes Aerial Sheriff Debt Cemetery Infra Pole Farm Project Ice Shield Unnatural History State of Air OCTOBER 2011 The dirty politics of taste Dye-Tracing Archaeology El Resplandor Thrilling Wonder Stories 3 Eye Roller Film Grenade Do Black Swans Dream of Electric Sheep? Literary Climatology Foamed Infrastructure Carry That Weight SEPTEMBER 2011 Tar Creek Supergrid Sea Caverns of Singapore A Spatial History of Trapdoors Altered Landscape Tunnel / Countertunnel On The Beach Landform Building The Shape of War Impact / Collapse Salt Geologic City Test City AUGUST 2011 Bridges are Acoustic Information Green Man Studio-X NYC Polygon Sublime Fake Lake Urban Hurricane Farmland World Animals in the Optoelectronic Metropolis The Cloud Architectural Formations that Make Matter into Objects of History Layerscape Island of Darwinian Machines Switch Installment Plan The New Robot Domesticity Subterranean Machine Resurrections Nazca City Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions JULY 2011 Rebooting Massachusetts Twisty Little Passages Bird's Eye View L.A. Stunt School Death and Marriage, Weather and Birds The House of Mechanical Animals The Weather Bank Geopolitical Redesign, or: A Bridge Between Europe and Africa Insurrectionary Memory Ruin Index The role of smell in urban design Interpretation-Based Spatiality Gotham Sans Situationist Drawing Device Henry Waltz Weather Warriors Split Infinitives Log Dune Bank Suitcase JUNE 2011 Calling All Agents Urban Spelunking Discontinuous, contingent, and nontraditionally vulnerable Chicagoland Waiting for the River Manhattan Interzone City Double The Hit List The Subterraneans A Can of Air, or: C.S.I. Duchamp Bass Ganglia Earth Moves Peripheral Porosity The Space of Preparation MAY 2011 Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond Landscape Futures Super-Trip Underground # Beyond the Restrictions of the Factual Art + Environment, Landscape Futures, and a Million Reasons to Visit Reno Applied Fictions Unit Border Town Urban Islands 2011 A Lesson in Abysses APRIL 2011 Spacesuit: An Interview with Nicholas de Monchaux Infrastructural Opportunism Stealth Objects and Scanning Mist Earthquake Sounds, Tsunami Rocks, Future Trenches Architectural Ecology Fiction and the city Canal Street Cross-Section Time, Photography, and Spatial Devices Water Towers of Ireland Ground Conditioning Urban Hypotheticals Animal Architecture Aerotropolis L.A. Two Water Tables Forest Sound Track MARCH 2011 Seismic Decentralization Islands at the Speed of Light Color Code Forensic Geology Anti-Flat House Music The Cloud Tent Soundscape Ecology, or: An Archive Fever of the Ear The Elephant's Foot Printable Insects and the Rise of the Architectural Superprinter Truth Windows Aerotropolis: An Interview with Greg Lindsay Books Received Soft Space Selections Fabricate The Factors of Futuring The Robot and the Architect are Friends Weather Architects of the Year 2050 A.D. Unsolving the City: An Interview with China Miéville Cathedral Scan FEBRUARY 2011 Modular Advances Pay-As-You-Go Urbanism Architectural Potential Energy Castle of Shadows Computational Mythologies: An Interview with Zachary Mason Calling All Agents Buy a Tube Station Ruin, Space, and Shadow: An Interview with Mike Mignola People Textures on the Athletic Fringe of the City Quick Links 15 Landscapes Dynamic and Undone Engineering the Megacity JANUARY 2011 On the Grid Choke Points and Kill Switches Landscape Futures Super-Media Nest Factory Machine Vitrine Spaces of Food #5: Madeira Odorless Fish Market and the Tempelhof Ministry of Food Hadean Transport Spaces of Food #4: Betel Nut Beauties Spaces of Food #3: The Mushroom Tunnel of Mittagong Spaces of Food #2: Inflatable Greenhouses on the Moon Spaces of Food #1: Agriculture On-The-Go and the Reformatting of the Planet Housing London's Robot Workforce Project Iceworm The Sixth Borough Escalators on the Move Flying Robotic Construction Cloud Incident Report Landscape Futures Super-Dialogue Super-Workshop Update Landscape Futures Super-Workshop Ground TV Peel Street Caves An assertion of edge and boundary Microplot Cryptoforests and Spatial Folklore Swimscape Drift Deck Symbolic, ornamental, and eclectic Weaponized Seismology Feeding on Quakes Future Strategies of Spatial Practice DECEMBER 2010 Over and Out Paris Onion Blue Tape QR Cinema, or: Machines Making Films For Machines Urban Archaeology of Collisions in the Sky Weather Warfare Future Food Through Future Funding Books Received: Climate Futures List London-on-Sea Manhattan El Dorado Crystal Furnace in Space Air Hive Decolonizing Architecture Probe Field Chernobyl/Baikonur Ventilating Mines with Repurposed Airplane Engines Spatial Gameplay in Full-Court 3D NOVEMBER 2010 Stationary Cinema Architecturally Armed Maunsell Nation The Robot A-Z First-Strike Reforestation Thrilling Wonder Update The Inevitability of Prophecy Among Models of New York Stratigraphies of Infestation Thrilling Wonder Stories II The Annals of Weather Warfare City of Holes A Visitors Center for the Center of the Earth Drylands Design The Unified Lunar Control Network The Road Printer Gold is the Metal Printheads in Space Critical Condition Vent Stack Bridge & Tunnel An Invisible Empire of Sidewalks and Gutterspace Honeycomb Home Liquid Radio Holocubic Animations in 3D Narrative Space Desk Crit The Reforestation of the Thames Estuary OCTOBER 2010 Church of Planets Past The Access Maze Stitch Up Buy an Archipelago Buy a Map Softcore The Museum of Speculative Archaeological Devices Trap Rooms Redux The Migration of Mel and Judith City Sovereignty Trap Rooms Bones of the Gigantomachy Quadraturin and Other Architectural Expansionary Tales Emerging Geopolitical Constellations On the Art of Drinking Ice Cores Design and Existential Risk An Ancient Comedy of Urban Errors Urban Optometry Building Lifter Upside Dome / Architectural Understudy SEPTEMBER 2010 Vs. Ermita Counter-What?: An Interview with Jeffrey Inaba Special effects of a timestretched present Car Park Picturesque A Traffic Jam is a Collection of Rooms Of networked buildings and architectural neurology The Permission We Already Have Geometric Sociology LAX–ATL White Sun Sukkah City Approaches Vintage Mobile Cinema Mash House Big Softy Artificial caverns expanding beneath Chicago Space replaced by machines Growing old in architecture Urban Greenscreen Hydromania House in a Can Semicircular and built at the base of a large rock Arctic Technology Writer in Residence Predisposed Theater of Immersion Windy City AUGUST 2010 Augmented Metropolis Pallet House Hives and Valves, Filters and Membranes Car Jack Planet Soundlog Acoustic Forestry On the Road Again Documents, Maps, and Files of a Fictional Architecture Working the Line The Encounter Circus Sussex Dew Mine Transcendent City JULY 2010 Buried buildings, like icebergs in the ground Quick Links 14 Live and direct Indefinite in number, but of certain fixed shapes Gunnery Pagodas / Manhattan Niagara / The University of War The Design Future of the Sacred Grove Foodprint Toronto Slow City Michigan Deep Woods Triangle Lost Ships of New York City Stratford Kiosks Ice Patch Archaeology Offshore Oil Strike for All the Family Piranesi and the inhabitable hard drive On Method Sound not as memory but experience Tunnel to Nowhere Quick Links 13 A Permanent State of Insurrection Museum for Neglected Spaces The Tent Buy a Torpedo-Testing Facility JUNE 2010 Flooded London 2030 House-in-a-House Museum Portable Lensed Microcosms Looking Down into a Frozen World Cave of Kelpius Image Concrète A Design History of Military Airspace The Meadowlands Family Mines and the Basement Zoning Codes of Minnesota Subterranean Builders' Guide Crypto-Forestry and the Return of the Repressed The "star thing that holds the summer" A Flower Factory for the Caves Beneath Naples Sewer-diving Mexico City Fracturing and a complete bleed-out are already underway The "City-in-a-Box" and just-in-time private urbanism The Underground Light Mine of Batavia Modeling the Enemy Body Radar, Feral Cities, and Cedric Price, Neanderthal Slow Box On Treasure Riots and a Lust for Holes Screens, Buses, Kegs, and Cranes Species of Spaces Stonehenge at Night, 1944 Quick Links 12 Military Chiaroscuro The Duplicative Forest Catch-and-Release Archaeology MAY 2010 Bloggers in the Archive Quick Links 11 The Fires Berthier's Door Fabulous Fabbers Storyboard Ghosts of the Future: Borrowing Architecture from the Zone of Alienation The Fires: Save the Date Pieces of the city are forming, like islands Books Received Sukkah City Uncorporate Identity APRIL 2010 Concrete Honey and the Printing Room Theatre for One The Church Below An edge over which it is impossible to look The Switching Labyrinth Quick Links 10 Strato Lab The Archigram Archive Glacier/Island/Storm Reading List Agamemnon's Fortress Dream-Sector Physics and Inception Space Continent-Scale Weather Systems Made of Glass Shining Path Cities Under Siege Lost Roads of Monticello Pulse Room Ice Manifested as Sound Brutalism at Giza and the Iron Room Beneath the Pyramids It's the Trees Sydney Beaches, Future Towers, and How to Park Cars on the Moon Chocolate City Speculative subways for landscapes with no need for them Ice Cream Climatology The Quarantine Banquet Digital Analog Trophy Hunter Optical Spelunking MARCH 2010 New World Order Events in the Landscape and their Acoustic Shadows Warsound Quick Links 9 Supermodel Table of Contents The Extra Room L.A. on the Nile Vivarium Klip House Urban Fossil Value Shanghai Seedling Access Restricted Migratory Anagram California City Expedition Update! Two L.A. Evenings Urban Research The Dark Cities Empty Paris Open Flash Quarantine Quick Links 8 Landscapes of Quarantine Mercedes-Benz Tornado FEBRUARY 2010 The Architecture of Polar Ice Floes Educational Agriculture Artificial Glaciers 101 Drift Station Bravo A Minor Architectural History of Ice Islands #glacier #island #storm Ornamental Forensics The Star Archive Food Shape City MAP 002: Quarantine Excised Islands / Gourmet Cocktail Vincent Van Gogh and the Storm Archive Geothermal Gardens and the Hot Zones of the City An amplification of processes that already occur Glacier/Island/Storm Online Screens in Space Quick Links 7 Anthropogeomorphology Today Tactile Maps of Coastlines and Buildings Where does your taco come from? Vs. Expedition to the Geoglyphs of Nowhere The Moving, Self-Powered Room Sonic Warfare Quick Links 6 The Atomized Library A bulge in the floor now 100 feet high Quick Links 5 Toward the city come hills Format and Reinstall The Long River Igneous Hydrology: Landscapes on Demand Empire Post-Conflict Architecture and Design Quick Links 4 Three Trees Plan for Sky Book Tower JANUARY 2010 pavilion.net Lunar Archaeology Our Lady of the Rocks Foodprint NYC Steam Tunnel Music Tama-Re, or the Egypt of the West Architecture of a Decade Past Homefront Dissolve The Right Printhead Quick Links 3 The Self-Consuming Barbecue Pavilion States of Metamorphosis Glacier / Island / Storm They Will Build Clouds For Us Super Powers Cultivate Quick Links 2 River City Flexible Filmography Nakatomi Space Exploring the Megastructure: Smugglers' Caves and Shipwrecks Architecture on the Cusp Remnants of the Biosphere Quick Links 1 Crime is a way to use the city Golden Scans Who rules the night The Blobwall and the Bomb DECEMBER 2009 Art Trap Spiral Icon Manhattan Paleolimnology Rousseau and Echolocation Music for Landscapes Leviathan: An Interview with Richard Mosse Geospatial Holograms Muscatatuck The Burj Dubai as Storm Machine Crash State On Bombs and Preservation A User's Guide to New York City pt. 2: Street Vendor Guide A User's Guide to New York City pt. 1: Tenants' Rights Flashcards Best New Blogs of 2009 Love in the Time of Home Quarantine Cracking the Planet Pirate Radio Speleology Eat the Earth Blackout Make Mine a Minaret How To: Seed Grenade Agenda Landscapes of Quarantine and the Counterfeit University Crude City Alexander's Gates NOVEMBER 2009 Cities Gone Wild The Migratory Forest Booked Vardzia Political Buffer Space and Chinese "Black Jails" City of Gold Plants Without Borders: An Interview with Sara Redstone Crowned with a towered wall Of Rock Tombs, Cave Temples, and the Architecture of Ancient India California City A Social Philosophy of Buttresses The squalor, the possibilities, the madness The Fall Refuge Salt Space / Biospeleology Quadraturin Electrical Folklore Shelved in the Sky Messianic Urbanism The City and its Flooded Double The Turbulence Biennial World of Giving Until Proven Safe: An Interview with Krista Maglen Bomb Grid The Fourth Plinth: London Planetarium Grilling Octopi in a Flooded New York Editing the Shadow Volume Landslide Dynamics Of swarms, media, and design education 1984–2001 Aqueous Cliff House Words in Space One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik Ghostly OCTOBER 2009 New Local Worlds in Section Mine / Stack / Vertigo Who would want to be an architect? Isolation or Quarantine: An Interview with Dr. Georges Benjamin Robotism, or: The Golden Arm of Architecture 100 The Sphere and the Labyrinth Fossil Reactors Subeconomic Space Extraordinary Engineering Controls: An Interview with Jonathan Richmond Cities of the CDC On the Other Side of Arrival: An Interview with David Barnes The Emperor's Castle The Archaeology of Seclusion Safari 7 Chemical Archive Soft Robots Biology at the Border: An Interview with Alison Bashford The Last Town on Earth: An Interview with Thomas Mullen The Plague Dormitorium Phantom City SEPTEMBER 2009 Manual of Architectural Possibilities The Windowless Hall of Tides Sound engines, astral cenotaph, polar infranet, and more Landscapes of Quarantine Studio: Participant Update Linkology Digital Memory Palace Body Baroque Tabletop Terrain A Day at Storefront for Art and Architecture Hexagonal Hydropolis Skyscraper Bridges The Bay Line Extreme agricultural statuary Light Graphs in the Andes Gonzo Green Maunsell Towers Tarty The Mushroom Tunnel of Mittagong Extreme Environments Pamphlet Infrastructure Book of Space Fire Lookout Towers On Your Mark Oil Rocks AUGUST 2009 Digital Architecture London Optioning Architecture Procedural Destruction and the Algorithmic Fiction of the City City Laid Out Like Lizard Landscapes of Quarantine: Call for Applications The Edge Dissection of a Cathedral City of Fees and Services The Bioluminescent Metropolis Scuba Diving Beneath Hagia Sophia On Publishing Student Work # Doors, Thirds, Bridges, and Pools Architecture is always a way of envisioning our world transformed into something else Future Pastoral Excavatory Improv Graphic Analysis Island of Future Airships The Missing Buildings of Cockatoo Island JULY 2009 The Bat Spiral Architecture of the Blink The Dimensions of an Island Submarine-Repair Facilities, Mushroom Farms, and the Abandoned Islands of Sydney, Australia The Thirteenth Room Reburbia Thanks! 10 Reasons to Read The BLDGBLOG Book Corridors of Power Going to Eleven Null Point Romecore JUNE 2009 Coil Launch Quick List 12: Of Buried Machines, Ice Tunnels, and Stratigraphic Euphoria Origin and Detour Infrastructure as Advertisement The Danger of Digging Deeper Infrastructural Anxiety The Tree Museum London Yields, Harvested NYNEX, Embedded Angel of New York City IceLink / Land Bridge / Yesterday Bloomsday A Parking Lot to Last 16,000 Years #skyfail Building Storm When the ruins begin to sing The exact acoustic shape of the skies above Los Angeles Acqua Veritas Serving Space Whoever Rules the Sewers Rules the City The Great Lakes Paleolandscapes Project The Hollow Hills Chinese Islam and the Case of the Disappearing Prison Watershed Down Mobile Street Furniture Pardon the Disruption Urban X-Ray / Ancient Orchard Shells, Tube Structures, and Minimal Surfaces Rome Thunderdome The Water Menu Urban Haunting MAY 2009 Saddam's Palaces: An Interview with Richard Mosse Thrilling Wonder Stories Zone for Cloud The Immersive Future of the Architectural Monograph London Yields: Urban Agriculture Sound-Sensitive Maze Labs of a Sewer-Spelunking Blog London Future Green This Gaming Life: An Interview with Jim Rossignol Tectonic Real Estate Bed, Bath, and Beyond The House of Memory and Automata Earthquakes on Street View The Enemy by Design Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds Infantospatialism, or: adventures in crib design Books Received Landscape Deflation Exercises Simulant Youth Early Man Site San Francisco As It Used To Be The Hills Have Eyes The Wave Motors of California # Future Babel Urban Islands Terrain Deformation Grenades Unbuilt Australia The Rentable Basement Maze APRIL 2009 The Parallax View This Diseased Utopia: 10 Thoughts on Swine Flu and the City Super Powers Activate Just Add Water The Subterranean Machine Dreams of a Paralyzed Youth in Los Angeles A Drone Amidst the Ruins How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter Space/Drive And the Pulitzer goes to... Atmospheric Intoxication Sand/Stone Space-Based Storm Control Surface/Structure/Fold The BLDGBLOG Book Subject Narrative Planetarium Nocturnal Projections Park Stories The Lost Airfields of Greater Los Angeles MARCH 2009 The Immersive Edge Media Facades and Newscocoons Southern Exposure Talks, Tours, and the Cities of Tomorrow Super NAFTA Land Photography, Rights, Media Books Received Postopolis! LA Update So good you can't see it Death, dust, decay Circle and District Kind of Blue Guardians of Architecture Surgeon of Space FEBRUARY 2009 Seastead Design Competition The Continuous Enclave: Strategies in Bypass Urbanism Listing Listward Mathscape Landscape Anthropology Bering Bridge Designing the Post-Terrestrial @ the SVA The Program is Not on the Floor Hotelier at Sea The London Glaciarium Geologics Yes is More Pushkin Park Worship the Glitch Agricultural Sabotage The Boom is Over Park's Parks Get Set Watermarks Postopolis! LA JANUARY 2009 Cardiopulmonary Spatialization Hydro-Pharmacology State of Incorporation Twin Town Planet Harddrive Cable City and the Hanging Hotel Hydro-Manhattan Sky TV [bracket] Ride the Lightning The Year of Listening Found Sound City SuperMax Manhattan as a vascular organ BLDGBLOG @ Rice University Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan Of networks, grids, and infrastructures, or: How to make a planet Arrested Development In the winter of light Fortifications Tour Air Born DECEMBER 2008 The Six Nations of 2010 Architects of the Near Future Dark Sky Park Sludgecore Forest Camp San Francisco Nuclear Urbanism Warmed by Crematorium Gone Feral Cities in the Flood Zone Library of Dust Fossil Cities The Inhabitable Wind Turbine Backyard Aquaculture Down Under Space Beer San Francisco As It Should Be Infrastructural Domesticity NOVEMBER 2008 The Return Waiting Room Science Fiction and Architecture The City Dehumidified Barbican Update Piracy, Live at Sea Feral Cities Code 46 Resampled Space OCTOBER 2008 Offshoring Audacity Slow Decay The Atlas of Hidden Water The immersive sculpture of linked voids Zones of Exclusion Waste Towers Underground Rivers Frozen in Place Zip Line Tours Through City Space The Game The Castle Minor Landscapes and the Geography of American Political Campaigns Rethinking Union Station in an Era of High-Speed Rail A mix of possible routes: BLDGBLOG speaks with Vito Acconci SEPTEMBER 2008 Hitting the Books Light Box And the new White House is... Into the Woods White House Redux: The Book Outer Darkness The Landscape Anthropology of Photography Museums (and the spatial implications of graven images) Artificial Migration Routes for Monarch Butterflies The Brain in Space (Cognition and the City) To remain suspended without sinking or falling The Rule of Regulations Future Slum Art + Environment Conference, Reno Nuclear Nation Servers at Sea The Wildcats of Foreclosure AUGUST 2008 Airborne Environments The Comparative Literature of Massive Construction Sites Tactical Landscaping and Terrain Deformation Big One in the Big Apple Mayan Muons and Unmapped Rooms # The Basement Maze of Leavenworth, Kansas Library of Dust Patent Drawings for Geodesic Structures Church of God, Inflationist Quick List 11 Building Blogs An Architectural Pathway to Artificial Life An Earth Without Its Surface JULY 2008 The Psychiatric Infrastructure of the City 15 Lombard Street The Atlas of All Possible Bank Robberies Mysterious Chinese Tunnels landscape.mp3: An Interview with Smout Allen Spaces, Repeating: An Interview with Tom McCarthy Chemical Nature Baarle-Hertog The Akwizgran Discrepancy Three London Photos Super Sucker Earthquakes in the Sky Building Users Union Zoology Cinema City Chinese Air Bars Agent of Change Trainspotting Time Control JUNE 2008 BLDGBLOG's 4th of July Live Interview Marathon in London Martian Garden London is swimming For whom the bell tolls RoboVault Setting Up Shop in the Apocalypse Pandemonium Lost and Found Night Vision Sounding Rooms # # Mapping dryness # # Stadiums of disaster and war # Machine Dreams MAY 2008 # # Buildings and books Olympic Choreography The Other Night Sky Caverns in Light Radio Reservations Inside the Test Village Deep-water city-states The Digital Replacement of the Natives Mountain Monuments Botanical Otology Deep in the basement of an ancient tenement on Second Avenue in the heart of midtown New York City, I was fishing Vertical House APRIL 2008 The Architecture of Ascent Space as a Symphony of Turning Off Sounds Game/Space: An Interview with Daniel Dociu Structured Ice Hotels in the Afterlife Control Shift Mission to Mars Sky.doc Rising Up, Rising Down Cairo Sound City Ancient Roads Desert Getaway Future Super-Cities By Indirections, Find Directions Out Neuro-Tourism Architecture and the Media The Mathematics of Preservation and the Future of Urban Ruins Transmitting live from below the Antarctic Ice The Sound of Evolution MARCH 2008 Forgotten Architects Earth Evolves Power Plant Google Maps of Sci-Fi Eddy Rises The Architecture of Self-Measurement Chemical Geography Landscape Futures @ Penn Below the Polar Ice Cap Show Caves of the Nouveau Riche The Trenches of Approach BLDGBLOG in Baltimore Feeling Presidential Conspiracy Dwellings The controlled river indicates The Octagon Angling for the sun On illustrating architecture FEBRUARY 2008 The Subterranean Water Cannons of Leadville, Colorado Simulated Environments for Animals Project Runway Going Up Flying-in the Bat House under military escort Prosthetic Delta Asleep beneath the Northern Lights The Hotel Made From Ice Vertical Transport Through Architectural Space Amsterdam Subcity Top 5 Ways to Hack the Surface of the Earth Trash Mandala Air Disaster Simulations We will migrate into the sky Aerial Terrains The Big Issue Psychology at Depth Mod Living The Subterranean Invasion JANUARY 2008 Narrative Infrastructures Robbie Williams CDs will be used to pave roads in China Colored Magma Immanent islandry The great nowhere at the edge Literary Atmospheres BLDGBLOG @ The Bartlett White House Redux Lyons-Dubai Elastic Houses The Other San Francisco I went to the car park because I wished to live deliberately Landing airplanes in the middle of the sea Mirrored crops and white gardens, or: Making the planet more reflective Incision Skin The Elevator Tower The horrible secret of Number 6 Whitten Street DECEMBER 2007 The year is 2099... All eyes on the city Adventures in Stacking Planet Battery Green and pleasant land Comparative Planetology: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson Religion by Satellite Church of God, Elevator Monolith Moderne The city of retroactive mathematics The Husband Who Would Not Die Farmadelphia Under the West Building Lightning Farms in Paris In San Francisco, With Drinks The Space of the Book 50 large buildings on the floor of three rooms in an apartment Server Rooms and the Future of Humanism The future warehouse of unwanted books NOVEMBER 2007 Air Brain The IceCube and the Earth's Core Algae Power Study in Mass Architecture by Accident Mobile Minimalism Urban Speculation Billboard.bldg Golf amongst the glaciers Foundation Earthquake Towers, Trapdoors, and other such delights Climate Change Escapism Bannerman's Island Inside the Vault BLDGBLOG @ SCI-Arc The City of Secret Burial Grounds London 2090 A.D. Stacked Cathedrals I can bear to see no more ruins The bridged architecture of adjacent peaks and "the fallen man of letters" From Beyond The Property OCTOBER 2007 Event 40204628 Spies, Light-Writing, and the Surface of the City White Light The Road N.A.W.A.P.A. 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MINING THE LOWER EAST SIDE [Image: From "Lower East Side Quarry" by Rebecca Fode; open each image in a new tab for a larger view]. Last month, several students from the Bartlett School of Architecture—studying as part of Unit 11, taught by Mark Smout, Laura Allen, and Kyle Buchanan—came through town for some field trips, workshops, and crits. At a public event in January, we looked at a huge range of work by all of the visiting students, and a number of the projects—all of them speculative works set in New York City—continue to come to mind. But because of the frequency with which I refer to one of them, in particular, I thought I should post it here. [Image: From "L.E.S. Quarry" by Rebecca Fode]. For a project called "Lower East Side Quarry," Rebbeca Fode outlines an elaborate scenario in which the mineral content of the bedrock beneath Manhattan begins to exceed the exchange value of the real estate built upon it; accordingly, sensing access to untold wealth, residents of a rent-controlled street on the Lower East Side band together to form a rogue mining union. [Image: Map of Manhattan bedrock, courtesy of the USGS; view larger]. And downward they go, like economically motivated cousins of London's Mole Man, expanding their cellars beneath the streets with this mythic quarry, beginning in 2012 at a location on Orchard Street, between Broome and Grand; here's a map. [Images: From "L.E.S. Quarry" by Rebecca Fode]. Gradually, over time, the unlicensed and increasingly complicated mineworks expand beneath nearly every building in the neighborhood, following two veins of Inwood Marble that track north-south under the city; the buildings, in turn, are propped up by retaining walls and gantries as the quarry swells below. [Image: From "L.E.S. Quarry" by Rebecca Fode]. The ground plane thus drops lower and lower each year as the buildings themselves are, in effect, severed from the earth's surface, coming to stand like circus acrobats on stilts over a neighborhood long ago overlooked—or underlooked?—for the mineral wealth in its foundations. While the project is a narrative scenario, not a real proposal for an emerging DIY extraction industry, it nonetheless presents an interesting question about mineral rights and the exchange value of geology in a major inhabited area. Should a valuable mineral resource of any exploitable extent be discovered down there in the veins beneath New York City, for instance, could mining become a viable use of the city's real estate—and, more to the point, what would be the architectural effects of this radical subtraction of the ground plane? The city of Johannesburg springs to mind. A recent graduate thesis project by Dorothy Tang, at Harvard's GSD, explored the urban mines that dot Johannesburg's densely populated landscape (some of the mines have even been hijacked and, later, raided by underground security forces), and Mario Gooden's current studio at Columbia's GSAPP also takes Johannesburg's porous, unevenly excavated urban fabric as its site. But what about the bedrock of Manhattan, an island often described in terms of canyons and analyzed as a geologic city? What happens when New York becomes a site of extraordinary excavation and it begins to expand not through fabulous skyscrapers but through sinuous and labyrinthine mines? What happens when mineral rights become as salable as air rights, when the geologic underpinnings of the city can change hands in a heartbeat, always on the verge of being extracted? [Image: Canada's Diavik diamond mine via Wikipedia]. New York could become not unlike Canada's extraordinary Diavik diamond mine, a hole seemingly in the middle of nowhere with water on all sides, but with some historic neighborhoods, art museums, stock exchanges, and jazz bars propped up above on a numbered grid of bridges shaped like streets. NEWER | OLDER

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