architecture in the abstract. ideas not buildings

Superstar: A Mobile China Town is MAD's response to the redundant and increasingly out-of-date nature of the contemporary Chinatown. Rather than a sloppy patchwork of poor construction and nostalgia, the Superstar is a fully integrated, coherent , and above all modern upgrade of the 20th century Chinatown model. It's a place to enjoy, to consume Chinese food, quality goods and culture events; it's a place to create and to produce, where citizens can use workshops to study, design and realize their ideas.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/3207370917_1ba080d1e2.jpg?v=0

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One of three finalists in this year’s Evolo Skyscraper Competition Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm project envisions a future New York City interspersed with elegantly spiraling biomorphic structures that will harness cutting-edge technology to provide the city with its own self-sustaining food source.

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/16/dystopian-farm-by-eric-vergne/

there's a conceptual skyscraper farm that i posted once, somewhere on here. it was done by seattle people and they really wanted to build it, somewhere around rebar if i recall correctly. lol chickens(hit) in the city.

The project explores how new forms of habitable infrastructure might be extrapolated from a geopolitical agreement – in this case, materializing architectural form from the legal interstices of the Oslo Accords. The result is a fantastic example of architectural speculation: genuinely massive – and impossibly cantilevered – bridges used as transport links, aerial housing, and skyborne agricultural complexes, all in one.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/rentable-basement-maze.html

http://infranetlab.org/blog/2009/05/student-works-arctic-tecture-for-the-global-commons/

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from

beyond architecture

more pictures at

http://www.fubiz.net/2009/06/02/we-love-to-build/