Abandoned But Not Forgotten. Not Your Average Travel Site. The Sudden Death of Cambodia’s Homegrown Modernism — Failed Architecture. Established in 1908, Kep-sur-mer, as it was known during French occupation, sits 152 km south of Phnom Penh and 24 km west of the Vietnamese border overlooking the Gulf of Thailand.
Less visited than it’s hedonistic neighbor Sihanoukville, and smaller than nearby Kampot, present day Kep is an easy-going jungle-meets-ocean village. There is an aura about Kep that exudes relaxation; and perhaps this has always been it’s allure as a vacation destination of the past. Or, perhaps it is Kep’s past that makes the present day town so charming. Unique to Kep are it’s villas – modernist relics which number around 100 – abandoned, crumbling, overgrown and wild. Playful with their referencing of early modernism, one can easily spot the Bauhaus, Neutra and Corbusian influence; but unique to Kep, such influence has been blended with functional adaptations to Cambodia’s climate and traditional Angkorian heritage.
Technology - Bruce’s Sterling’s vision of the future city. How does it look-and-feel, the big, grand city of the mid-century?
If you're seven years old, everything in it feels equally wondrous. The big city is a riot of sight, sound and smells – as vivid, exciting and scary for you as any big town has ever been for anybody. No one can overlook buildings of that colossal size – but why do they exist? A city's showplaces are always built by people anxious about their own status. In 2050, the nouveau-riche arrivistes stake their big skyline claims on the public eye. Cars piloted by human beings were a passing thing in the ageless urban story. A Pre-Climate Apocalypse Travel Guide. Welcome to Architizer's doomsday cult.
We've decided to celebrate the breaking and decay of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf with the breaking of our readers' hearts. Experts predict that sea levels will rise 10 feet in the next few centuries, which means we should probably start to emphasize basic swimming in our educational curriculum, build entire underground communities à la Atlantis, and take a cue from Silicon Valley execs who are quietly investing in floating self-sustainable cities.
Architects are offering their own solutions as well — MVDRV and Morphosis create above-above ground housing, while BIG and OMA build Manhattan's storm barriers. In short, some cities will grow in resiliency, invest huge amounts of capital, trust in urban planning and architecture, and others won't. Here we rank cities from 1-10 in terms of survival. Add To Collection Save this image to a collection via nsidc.org Paris - 10 Was Paris the only one to listen to the "City On a Hill" speech? Paved Paradise: Cemeteries in Parking Lots. An abandoned 1920s cabaret theatre in Berlin. Cultural Innovation. Failed Architecture — Researching urban failure. 9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World. Ruinology. Proj3ct M4yh3m Urban Exploration. Ruin Lust.
1 of 5 Ruin Lust, an exhibition at Tate Britain from 4 March 2014, offers a guide to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of ruins in art from the seventeenth century to the present day.
The exhibition is the widest-ranging on the subject to date and includes over 100 works by artists such as J.M.W. 6 Forgotten Places, Rediscovered. Visiting these rooms, businesses, and homes is like traveling back in time. 1. The Old Operating Theatre Wikimedia Commons In 1822, there was no surgical anesthesia. Operations were performed quick and dirty right in a wealthy person’s home or, for poorer patients, in a hospital ward. 2. In 2010, the London Underground began upgrading their Notting Hill Gate station. 3.
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The sun was sinking into the western horizon, silhouetting the ships that stood before us. It had long been a plan of ours to visit these ships, but we knew getting on them with permission wouldn’t be the right way to shoot them. “The security boat goes by once every thirty minutes,” Stephen mused. Irresistible Decay. The meaning of the word "ruin" has its origins in the idea of fallen stones.
When we frame an object as a ruin, we reclaim it from a fall into decay and oblivion and often for a form of cultural attention and care that elevates the value of that object. Metaphors for Abandonment: Exploring Urban Ruins « Archaeology and Material Culture. The prosaic humanity of an abandoned manor (image courtesy howzey) An astounding number of web pages document abandoned materiality, encompassing a broad range of architectural spaces including asylums, bowling alleys, industrial sites, Cold War sites, and roadside motels as well as smaller things like pianos and even scale models of abandonment.
