Instant Ruins
With respect to the following...
The only thing to be welcomed about the 2012 project is that, once the Capital-Spectacle has departed the glittering arcades, the wind will whistle through the dereliction of a new Zone. ‘Whatever occurs here, these images suggest, whatever is lost to this development, will only be temporary,’ Macfarlane observes. ‘Given time, the wild will reclaim the park and its structures.’
Zaha Hadid project for the 2012 Olympics:
Zaha Hadid building in Weil am Rhein, around ten years old: (via Things via Kosmograd)
The only thing to be welcomed about the 2012 project is that, once the Capital-Spectacle has departed the glittering arcades, the wind will whistle through the dereliction of a new Zone. ‘Whatever occurs here, these images suggest, whatever is lost to this development, will only be temporary,’ Macfarlane observes. ‘Given time, the wild will reclaim the park and its structures.’
Zaha Hadid project for the 2012 Olympics:
Zaha Hadid building in Weil am Rhein, around ten years old: (via Things via Kosmograd)
posted by owen hatherley at 2:27 pm
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Did you write this at your Jobseekers thing? You scamp!
Much to look forward to!
Well this is all a bit incestuous isn't it? I arrive here from a link on k-punk only to be taken back there!
Perverts
It was me first. Anyway, it's not incest, it's a conspiratorial cabal
umberto eco might have something to say about that. We hear things like that about the 2010 Olympics here, too (I'm from Vancouver).
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