Texturen – Kakteengewächse und Sukkulenten
Körper mit minimaler Oberfläche und sichtbaren Kraftlinien
vergl. Bionik

In beinahe jeder Stadt Europas gibt es sie, die stillen Zeitzeugen des vergangenen Krieges. Monumentale, massive Architekturen die sich nur schwer in das Stadtbild eingliedern.

... 15 minutes. Same procedure every summer in the mornings on tourists beaches.

Die “Rote Fabrik” ist ein ehemaliges Fabrikareal in Zürich-Wollishofen, heute wird es als Kulturzentrum genutzt . Genannt wird es so, weil die Gebäude aus roten Backsteinen bestehen, aber auch, weil Linksparteien sich für die Umnutzung der ehemaligen Fabrikanlage eingesetzt haben.
Die Gebäude des Komplexes sind über und über mit Graffiti besprüht oder mit Plakaten beklebt.

The Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal) is a memorial in Berlin (Germany) to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineers Buro Happold. It consists of a 19.000 square meter (4.7 acre) site covered with 2.711 concrete slabs or “stelae”, arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field.
www.holocaust-mahnmal.de
www.eisenmanarchitects.com

A trip to travelling trollys and containers beside the River Rhein.

The station was constructed in 1978 as part of the new Part-Dieu urban neighborhood project, a second city center for Lyon.

The picture story shows most impressive very wide panoramas of the mystic, Parque Natural, Timanfaya.

Unfinished and abandoned constructions of buildings near by the resort town Kuşadası on Aegean coast of Turkey.

...wide globated pictures of the Landscape.

The spanish island Lanzarote is of volcanic origin, is one of the roughest places on earth. In 1730 the island was hit by a series of volcanic eruptions, creating more than 30 new volcanoes.

Technically Vietnamese Propaganda Art is unique. While posters were used elsewhere, in Vietnam an even cheaper medium was used. The artists were commissioned to paint political and social posters, the slogans they were given. These illustrations are copied around the country on boards used over and over again. Although they are all original paintings, not mass produced copies.

As a part of modern Chinese lifestyle, the community use e-bikes, small motorcycles driven by electricity. Sometimes they seams more like conventional motor-rollers the others looks more like bicycles.

in 2007 Sertan Satan scanned the rough public installations in Vietnam. The analogue open source network symbolize the power of the fast up growing country.

Seeking for Bauhaus. In 2007 Peter Eberhard visit the Panjab University Chandigarh, India.

On the one hand the University is on of the oldest and most famous faculties of India. On the other hand the architecture represents the decomposition of Chandigarth, the visionary utopia from the middle of the last century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjab_University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandigarh
www.puchd.ac.in

It is more than a simple crossroad. It is a Landmark and also a symbol of the fast up crowing chinese society and the vision of individual mobility. There where the Chengdu Bei Road cross the Yan’an Xi Road in the Luwan District of Shanghai is one of the amazing highway crossings. Interleaved strings of road bridges, in the center the »Nine-Dragon Pillar« – a pillar decorated with dragon ornaments – organize the traffic. Built for the next decade of chinese power. (31°13’34.72”N 121°27’51.25”O)

On a second level, a circle allows the pedestrians to cross the inner city highway. In the background you can see the unbelieving skyline of the fast growing city of shanghai. Millions of new dwellings all over there.

On-site inspection of a vacation village in Croatia, 2005.

The sector 16 of Chandigarh is an residential quarter. Several buildings were designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s. Le Corbusier was in fact the official architect of the whole city, which was commissioned by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India, to reflect the new nation’s modern outlook and to look towards the future.

Life on water is discussed in many ways as a concept for future living.
In different parts of the whole world »life on water« had always been a normal way of life. As a result of short ground to build houses, people live in floating villages or houseboats. Like in the Netherlands in Europe also in different parts of Asia.
The image story shows some impressions of life on and beside water in Vietnam, from the Mekong Delta and also the Ha Long Bay.

A walk throw side streets of an old historical quarters.

Nach und nach verschwinden die malerischen, historischen Nebengassen und die alten Hofhäuser aus dem Stadtbild Shanghais. In den letzten 15 Jahren entstanden mehr als 3000 neue Hochhäuser im Finanzdistrikt Pudong, viele gehören zu den höchsten der Welt.
Die Bewohner der alten Quartiere teilen nur selten den romantisch verklärten Blick derer die diese typische Wohnform erhalten wollen. Die Lebensumstände entsprechen nicht mehr den Bedürfnissen und Wünschen des modernen Menschen, viele Bereiche des Privatlebens spielen sich auf den Gassen ab. Auch wenn Südchinesen durchaus gesellige Menschen sind, so ist die Ursache darin zu finden, dass in den Wohnungen kaum mehr Platz als zum Schlafen ist. Die Sanitärenanlagen befinden sich auf den Gassen und der Zustand des Baubestandes ist derart schlecht, dass sich allerlei Ungeziefer breit macht.
Viele der zumeist alten Bewohner hoffen auf einen Investor, der ihnen moderne Wohnungen zur Verfügung stellen muss bevor er das Viertel abreisen kann. Aber auch in dem durch enorme Investitionen geprägten Shanghai ist dies nicht immer leicht. Zumal dies in intakten Quartieren und hohen Bevölkerungsdichten mit erheblichen Mehrkosten verbunden ist.

Almost each part of the facades in the historical Lisbon quarter »Barrio Alto« is decorated. The common sight is define by traditionally classic Azulejos (tin-glazed, ceramic tile-works), graffiti’s and posters.

Manrique (1919 – 1992) lived most of his life in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He was a designer, artist, painter, sculptor and architect… His work can be seen all over the islands and especially on the roundabouts along the main roads.
Many of these pieces are mobile sculptures, what he called »Juguetes del Viento« (engl. wind toys). He wanted to replace Lanzarote’s lost heritage, the windmill, with modern references to those “halcyon” days, but died before he could implement his vision. Later, the town council used his sketches to create and erect these heavy metal structures and realized his vision.

Transform presents his new format. A picture book (430 mm x 280 mm) in the style of a newspaper.
The topic of the first Issue is street-art. A collection of paste-ups from Frankfurt/M, Strassbourg, Saarbrücken and Cologne.

The Paris Métro is the lifeline of the capitol. It is on of the most busiest metro systems of the world. More than 4.5 million passengers are carried a day. The different platforms of some underground stations are connected by long-distance moving walks.

Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists’ right to the road. The idea started in San Francisco in September 1992 and quickly spread to cities all over the world. CM has a different flavor from city to city – there’s a big variety in size, respect of traffic laws (or lack there of), interaction with motorists, and intervention by police. There are no leaders and no central organization licenses rides. In every city that has a CM ride, some locals are simply picking a date, time, and location for the ride and publishing it, and thus the ride is born.
CM is an idea and an event, not an organization. CM is intended to be a celebration, not an opportunity to cause trouble. Those who want to try to tie up traffic as much as possible and be confrontational with motorists are missing the point. Focus on the ride, not on the cars that also happen to be on the road. Don’t have a CM in your city? Then start one!
The following photos were shot at the CRITICAL MASS FRANKURT, first Sunday of June 2008, by Mario G. Brucculeri.
Critical Mass Frankfurt, every first Sunday of the month, 14h. Every following Friday, 19h. Frankfurt/M., Opernplatz.
www.critical-mass-frankfurt.de
www.critical-mass.de
www.critical-mass.info
www.critical-mass.org

...”the fingers of Riglos”, a spectacular climbing rock in the province Huesca, in northeastern Spain / in northern Aragon. Positioned in the south of the central Pyrenees. 42°21’1.07” N, 0°43’37.15” W

CO2-refurbishment of buildings
A advertising campaign of the Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung (Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development of Germany). By using big Litfaß pillars toped with oversized woolen hats the Ministry makes an application for environmental friendly refurbishment of buildings, to save energy and so to reduce CO2 emissions.
The program of the Ministry provides benefits and favorable credits.
www.energie-fuer-morgen.de



This photographic series portrays a collection of images captured in Algiers. Most of them belong to structures built in the fifties and sixties and highly influenced from the precepts of Modern Architecture.
As is characteristic in the Maghreb region, the building’s facades profusely mirror the lives of those who live inside the vertical structures. In this Mediterranean city for instance, the “cites” are heavily populated with parabolic screens becoming part of the vernacular architecture. The tenants’ individualistic attitude of adding more and more screens generates an organic quality to the buildings. This improvisation takes us into new realms of expression converting the facades into a celebration of rhythm and colour. Algiers in the era of communications has contributed to push even further the experience of seeing the city. 

www.transitorycities.com

January 2010

Traffic in the up growing Central Business District (CBD) of Beijing.