Cheng+Snyder’s new public art project, the Museum of the Phantom City, offers iPhone users imaginative glimpses of New York City.
The NY Times reports that architects Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder “have created a virtual map to guide users around Manhattan to sites where projects they describe as ‘visionary’ were planned but never built. The map [...]
NY Times: Data Center Overload
“Much of the daily material of our lives is now dematerialized and outsourced to a far-flung, unseen network … But where is ‘there,’ and what does it look like? ‘There’ is nowadays likely to be increasingly large, powerful, energy-intensive, always-on and essentially out-of-sight data centers. These centers run enormously scaled software [...]
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Subprime by Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann
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Some of Borja Bonaque’s lovely geometric cityscapes.
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Superb entry for a portable exhibition venue for Yorkshire Forward, by Various Architects. More at Dezeen.com
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