Saudi Arabia's The Line and Egypt's New Capital: What Two Modern Cities Reveal About Autocracy
What new cities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt tell us about their autocrats.
Source: foreignpolicy.com
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Ephemeral Cities: 3 Radical City Concepts That Propose for Users to Shape Their Built-Form
Explore the design of conceptual radical cities through user authorship. From Archigram's Plug-In City to Kenzo Tange's masterplan for Tokyo.
Source: archdaily.com
Ephemeral Cities: 3 Radical City Concepts That Propose for Users to Shape Their Built-Form
Explore the design of conceptual radical cities through user authorship. From Archigram's Plug-In City to Kenzo Tange's masterplan for Tokyo.
Source: archdaily.com
Oliver Wainwright explores the architectural history behind Saudi Arabia's planned The Line megacity
The Guardian critic writes that the outlandish NEOM project structure resembled a “habitable supercomputer” and cites a recent Bloomberg report that names Marvel Comics designer Olivier Pron as one of its many non-architect digital designers before pinning the massive project’s “ominous...
Source: archinect.com
The one-dimensional city
The 2013 sci-fi movie Snowpiercer reduces the Earth’s population to the passengers of a speeding train. The poor and hungry live in the rear cars, fighting for scraps, and have only gossip to suggest that anyone lives any differently. But it is revealed to the viewer that things get progressively more upscale in the cars ahead. At the front, influencer types sip champagne in fur coats. Every class echelon is segregated by train carriage, until the poor are exposed to the rich and chaos bre...
Source: newstatesman.com