February 14, 2010
In this difficult real estate environment, close followers of the used modernist Skyway market will note have reason to be optimistic. Even as asking prices have dropped nearly 40% in the last year,--from $79,500,to around $49,500--they are still way...
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March 16, 2009
Like everyone else in the country, I was glued to the screen September 11th, 1998, scrambling to download the massive Independent Counsel's Report, aka the Kenneth Starr Report, from a still-scrawny Internet. I finally printed my copy in time for...
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January 22, 2009
Ho-ly smokes. The Minneapolis architecture firm City Desk Studio just put a skyway up for sale on craigslist. A freakin' skyway. It's a steel girder and glass box, 20 x 83 feet, and 14 tall, designed by architect Ed...
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August 17, 2008
caravans, originally uploaded by Elmer Kroese. Awesome, just awesome. Catherina Scholten's set design for a 2005 production of Chekhov's "Ivanov" at the outdoor theater in the Amsterdamse Bos [Woods] is just awesome. Shipping containers topped with mobile homes and...
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October 25, 2007
Modular, prefab, minimalist, outdoor space, nice matte finish, shipping containers... Just slap a couple of solar panels on the roof and get a book stylist in there to add a Moholy-Nagy monograph to the coffee table, I think we...
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July 29, 2006
Been a while since I've posted shipping container architecture news, but it's become so hot everywhere else, I'm sure no one minds. This is worth mentioning, though. Regine interviewed one of the Freitag brothers about the bag company's new...
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November 25, 2003
It's an inadvertent but recurring subject of interest here at greg.org: the architectural use of connex shipping containers. Sunday, NPR aired a puffy little interview with Zalmay Khalilzad, the new US envoy to Afghanistan; it turns out he'll be living...
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February 20, 2003
A sporadically recurring topic here at greg.org, the non-shipping use of shipping containers. [Instigating post here, extensive post here.] Shipping container used in an illegal Israeli outpost, image:nytimes.com Samantha Shapiro's NYTimes Mag story, "The Unsettlers," profiles young, militant Israelis who...
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October 25, 2002
image via globalsecurity.org Last month I wrote about art and architecture made from connex containers, the standard 40-foot steel boxes used for international shipping. #1 architects MVRDV proposed a complex made from them for Rotterdam, their home town (and a...
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September 30, 2002
Nearly a month after an accidental click into a carry-on luggage article brought my surfing to a teary halt, it's okay to laugh again. In this week's New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten tells of of several successful attempts to carry Emmy...
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