Comments on: The design city thread http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564 Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:23:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: teucer http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-94084 teucer Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:55:09 +0000 #comment-94084 Check out google maps! <br /> <br /> How long have they had this 3D isometric overview of the larger buildings when you move into a closer zoom on map view? It's awesome - an architecture student/cartographer/psychogeographer/urban planner/GIS nerd's wet dream. <br /> <br /> Well, it's a new feature to me, anyway. Have a look.<br /> <br /> Check out google maps!

How long have they had this 3D isometric overview of the larger buildings when you move into a closer zoom on map view? It’s awesome – an architecture student/cartographer/psychogeographer/urban planner/GIS nerd’s wet dream.

Well, it’s a new feature to me, anyway. Have a look.

]]> By: wayne http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93327 wayne Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:06:54 +0000 #comment-93327 I just rearranged my apartment and it's looking pretty great. But I need to make a trip to IKEA to do some decoratin'. I just rearranged my apartment and it’s looking pretty great. But I need to make a trip to IKEA to do some decoratin’.

]]> By: teucer http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93324 teucer Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:01:45 +0000 #comment-93324 I like it. But it betrays its understated minimalism by weighing a freaking ton. I worry that one day it will undergo gravitational collapse as its mass increases to infinity. Less is, as they say, more. I like it. But it betrays its understated minimalism by weighing a freaking ton. I worry that one day it will undergo gravitational collapse as its mass increases to infinity. Less is, as they say, more.

]]> By: wayne http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93319 wayne Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:55:34 +0000 #comment-93319 That is a very nice table. That is a very nice table.

]]> By: teucer http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93305 teucer Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:10:26 +0000 #comment-93305 Tib wrote: "Kind of hobbity, only very dark, as if it were the place where the hobbits from the wrong side of the tracks lived."<br /> <br /> You probably mean <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0451452615/ref=sib_fs_top/105-6846808-6714040?ie=UTF8&p=S00T&checkSum=qu%2FHHLSB%2F5%2BTw%2BZcd5oC5ilEXcfx9jQRhiSQ8l8kn5k%3D#reader-link">boggies</a>, then. Tib wrote: “Kind of hobbity, only very dark, as if it were the place where the hobbits from the wrong side of the tracks lived.”

You probably mean boggies, then.

]]> By: Bx http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93294 Bx Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:41:29 +0000 #comment-93294 No one's mentioned our cities castles!<br /> <br /> Landmark Center and Swedish Institute!<br /> <br /> They need MOATS though. Stocked with walleye.<br /> <br /> I love blatantly medieval architecture in the city. <br /> <br /> And, I'd like to offer a second fond endorsement for the Weisman. Put that in your juice box and suck it. No one’s mentioned our cities castles!

Landmark Center and Swedish Institute!

They need MOATS though. Stocked with walleye.

I love blatantly medieval architecture in the city.

And, I’d like to offer a second fond endorsement for the Weisman. Put that in your juice box and suck it.

]]> By: teucer http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93225 teucer Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:04:50 +0000 #comment-93225 Funny you should say that, Wayne. I happen to own a <a href="http://www.variationstore.ch/fiche-unifor_less.htm">table</a> designed by that nice Mr Jean Nouvel, the Guthrie's architect. <br /> <br /> It looks like something you'd get from Ikea, only it weighs about 300 lbs, made as it is from sheet steel. It looks beautiful. I love it, and hardly ever move it. I will accede that this is par for the course in modern design. <br /> <br /> Better yet, I found it on Craigslist for a couple of hundred dollars. Funny you should say that, Wayne. I happen to own a table designed by that nice Mr Jean Nouvel, the Guthrie’s architect.

It looks like something you’d get from Ikea, only it weighs about 300 lbs, made as it is from sheet steel. It looks beautiful. I love it, and hardly ever move it. I will accede that this is par for the course in modern design.

Better yet, I found it on Craigslist for a couple of hundred dollars.

]]> By: wayne http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93217 wayne Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:54:49 +0000 #comment-93217 mmm, ikea mmm, ikea

]]> By: teucer http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93221 teucer Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:54:14 +0000 #comment-93221 And another thing (as it seems I am unable to marshal my thoughts or my grammar this morning - I meant "it's" two posts up; fuck)... I love the design of the new library but I can't bring myself to wholly love it, because it's such a vanity of a boondoggle. <br /> <br /> The <a href="http://www.artspaceusa.org/neighborhood/hennepincenter/">Hennepin Center for the Arts</a> is located at a former Masonic temple, designed in a rather entertaining and confused blend of neoclassical and baroque. I don't know whether to form a dance troupe or abjure Zuul to come in the form of a giant Sloar every time I walk past. And another thing (as it seems I am unable to marshal my thoughts or my grammar this morning – I meant “it’s” two posts up; fuck)… I love the design of the new library but I can’t bring myself to wholly love it, because it’s such a vanity of a boondoggle.

The Hennepin Center for the Arts is located at a former Masonic temple, designed in a rather entertaining and confused blend of neoclassical and baroque. I don’t know whether to form a dance troupe or abjure Zuul to come in the form of a giant Sloar every time I walk past.

]]> By: teucer http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/10564#comment-93216 teucer Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:53:50 +0000 #comment-93216 Oh yeah, I also love the Guthrie, but then I'm a sucker for blue things. Oh yeah, I also love the Guthrie, but then I’m a sucker for blue things.

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