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Swedish architect Per Friberg – possible designer of house in Bron/Broen

LB — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:10:16 +0000

Above: Erlandson Villa designed by Per Friberg. Below: detective Martin
Rohde in “Bron/Broen” (The Bridge)

The Bridge (Bron/Broen) is a Danish-Swedish TV co-production set on both sides of the Øresund Bridge that links Copenhagen, Denmark & Malmö, Sweden.

Bjarke Ingels’ Vancouver pirate ship

LB — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 06:20:33 +0000

Oh really

I can’t remember if I’ve already talked about this Dubai-style luxury twisted tower that Vancouver is getting; apologies if I have. The tower, designed by architect Bjarke Ingels, is now rising in Vancouver but the reason I’m writing about it now is that I just read a critique in Artforum of this year’s Venice Biennale for Architecture which contained a chilling portrait of Ingels.

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Do not work for Mommie Dearest (Craigslist ad)

LB — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:24:04 +0000

I’m expecting that this Craigslist Vancouver ad (text at bottom of this post) will get so much abuse it’ll be taken down soon, so I’m cutting and pasting it here.

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Stripes on those parking lot pillars: urban design

LB — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 05:53:09 +0000

I was parking in a tiny parking spot today and suddenly noticed these stripes at side view mirror-height on the pillar I was squeezing next to. Multiple scrapes in different colours, on a paint job masking previous scrapes.

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C’mere Go Away

LB — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 05:25:15 +0000

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Harvey Molotch’s “The City as Growth Machine”

LB — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 05:11:37 +0000

Sociologist Harvey Molotch
“A city and, more generally, any locality, is conceived as the areal expression of the interests of some land-based elite.”

Harvey Molotch‘s seminal 1976 article “The City as Growth Machine”—which is equally applicable today—just happened to be published the same year of the UN Habitat Conference on Settlements that took place in Vancouver (and is the subject of my upcoming book).

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The Tudor house, colonialism, white gold and toothache

LB — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:06:58 +0000

“This is why we love the Tudor period so much, because it’s the age of discovery, and there’s a sense that anything was possible.”

“Discovery”?

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From Syria to Greece to Corbusier: Hozoviotissa monastery

LB — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 21:59:06 +0000

Earlier this summer a number of the Syrians fleeing civil war landed on the Greek island of Amorgos. Amorgos is not a common landing point in the exodus—most people are now landing on Kos not far from the Turkish coast.

“When Hipsters Dream of the 1890s” – an abridged version of my hipster essay is now in Briarpatch Magazine

LB — Thu, 07 May 2015 21:58:19 +0000

Briarpatch Magazine, one of Canada’s oldest lefty political mags, has published an abridged version of my earlier essay on heritage hipsters and colonialism redux.

If you want to read the original and longer post (with a far drier title) it is here: Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.

Post-mortem on the old Eaton’s building: an interview with Cesar Pelli

LB — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:44:08 +0000

This is not a true post-mortem, since Cesar Pelli‘s 1973 Eaton’s building has not actually been demolished—and how rare it is to be able to say that in Vancouver, now one of North America’s capitals of demolition.