Flywheel Landscapes, Energy Reserves, 3D-Printed Urban Caves, and the British Exploratory Land Archive

Flywheel Landscapes, Energy Reserves, 3D-Printed Urban Caves, and the British Exploratory Land Archive
Last week, over at the Architectural Association in London, a new exhibition opened, continuing the work of the British Exploratory Land Archive, an ongoing collaboration between myself and architects Mark Smout & Laura Allen of Smout Allen. Although I was unfortunately not able to be in London...

The Drowned

The Drowned
[Image: "Two Buildings Riverside Heights" by Louis Helbig]. I posted these photos on Gizmodo the other week, but I wanted to throw them up here, as well: a series of wildly evocative aerial photographs by Louis Helbig, for a project called Sunken Villages. Helbig has been documenting flooded villages...

(waves, says hello, disappears again)

(waves, says hello, disappears again)
[Image: Collage by Michael Hession, based on this image from the Library of Congress]. The last few weeks have been extremely busy, and there's been no real time to post here on BLDGBLOG; so many interesting stories have come and gone, so many ideas to discuss and write about here, but I've primarily...