Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.4 - cars, 3 - events, D - reflections, tagged events, reflections, suburbia on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some days ago, at the conference “desperate houses” at the EPFL, I heard about a research, realized by the architectural firm Raumbureau, saying that, in the suburbs, around 1 over 5 houses is refurbished as office space.
If this tendence goes on:
Little by little, suburbs will become true villages with offices, shops, post offices, sall hospitals… [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged le corbusier, reflections, rome, trends, urbanism on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The city within a building – Mario Fiorentino
In the last 50 years, we have built a massive amount of buildings, experimenting techniques and philosophies as never before. Reinforced concrete, cheap energy and cars allowed us a freedom to build that we never experienced before.
Now, many of the ideas behind them look outdated, and the building themselves are approaching the end of [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged housing, le corbusier, ships, streets on February 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
50 years after the first Unité, this model seems already belonging to another era. The strong separation between the building and its surroundings, the sensation of living in an all-artificial environment, and an almost complete identification of the Unité d’Habitation with social housing have made this model quite undesirable. The destiny of the millions of [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged housing, le corbusier, ships, streets on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Promoted as a standard, easy-to-build product, The Unité d’Habitation concept spread all over the world after WWII. The first 5 units (Marseille, Firminy, Rezé, Briey and Berlin) built by Le Corbusier himself became the standard for almost all public housing project between 1950 and 1990.
The more the model was spread along the world, the more [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged housing, le corbusier, ships, streets on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Promoted as a standard, easy-to-build product, The Unité d’Habitation concept spread all over the world after WWII. The first 5 units (Marseille, Firminy, Rezé, Briey and Berlin) built by Le Corbusier himself became the standard for almost all public housing project between 1950 and 1990.
The more the model was spread along the world, the more [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged housing, le corbusier, ships, streets on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Promoted as a standard, easy-to-build product, The Unité d’Habitation concept spread all over the world after WWII. The first 5 units (Marseille, Firminy, Rezé, Briey and Berlin) built by Le Corbusier himself became the standard for almost all public housing project between 1950 and 1990.
Rome, Corviale, 1972-1982 (image: flickr). Strict translation of the Unité d’Habitation [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged housing, le corbusier, ships, streets on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the beginning of the XX century, steamships were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Each one of them could carry 2000 passengers for a 15-days trip between Europe and America, and in these days it became for them a sort of new house.
The image of all these people living, loving, fighting, making business, all in this [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged housing, le corbusier, ships, streets on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the beginning of the XX century, steamships were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Each one of them could carry 2000 passengers for a 15-days trip between Europe and America, and in these days it became for them a sort of new house.
The image of all these people living, loving, fighting, making business, all in this [...]
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Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.4 - public spaces, D - reflections, E - Reportages, tagged housing, le corbusier, ships, streets on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SS Empress of britain, pre-1924 (image: wikimedia commons).
In the beginning of the XX century, steamships were crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Each one of them could carry 2000 passengers for a 15-days trip between Europe and America, and in these days it became for them a sort of new house.
MS Kungsholm, entrance to 1st class room, [...]
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