toward an architecture of the image
I often feel a connection between architecture and portraiture when mingling in the built environment.
And further, in the making of a picture one tends unconsciously to portraitize any old object, i.e. to subtly anthropomorph one’s choice of composition.
These new ads for O2 take the two tendencies to a literal extreme.
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Somewhere along the line the ground floor of this building derailed, and an odd adaptation of bricking over and reinserting windows took hold. The results make this standard English-brick crapotecture almost interesting.
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The Netherlands is known for its rich art and design culture, and it should come as no surprise that trains are considered decorative spaces. A sampling of train art from journeys in Holland.
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Remix of poster ads for Star Wars, Murakami and beer. Love it when user generated crosses over into physical, public space. From the NYC subway.
Pictures and title from Andiamnotlying.
And next door..
From Almere, Netherlands
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An invisible building? Given the armature around the steel frame, I’d suspect this structure is destined for some large-scale advertising while the plot is developed. From Leiden, Netherlands.
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Three different representational strategies, from a common Dutch practice. Images from Almere, The Netherlands.
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They’re building fast and thick in Leidsche Rijn, a new planned city for 80,000 residents outside of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Leidsche Rijn is just one part of the Dutch VINEX development plan: new cities to house the expanding population in locations that border the current major cities of Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam.
The pictures above are from a promotional display for the ‘Ensemble’ neighborhood in the Leidsche Rijn Information Center.
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From somewhere in Rotterdam.
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“The beauty of the Netherlands is nearly invisible. Because it is so flat, it is difficult to get a perspective on its contours. Because it is so built up, one has no long vistas, and there is little sense of grandeur. There are as Henry James said, no roads that lead elsewhere. Or so it seems. In reality, The Netherlands is just the end of the Rhine and a great distribution center. It also produces something: value. The ability to make money out of a reality that exists elsewhere is at the core of this country’s trading success, and it fuels the polder model.” From False Flat, [polder model = the Dutch policy of economic decision by consensus]
Bike-rack-as-sculpture and The Ugliest Staircase Ever.
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