Dec. 29th, 2018
Earlier this month, I posted one photo from my visit to 533 King Street West in the heart of the Fashion District to see the Unzipped Toronto exhibition in Bjarke Ingels' reconstructed 2016 Serpentine Pavilion. I had promised to post the remainder of those photos later today. Consider that promise fulfilled today.
I quite enjoyed this free exhibit. The different projects displayed, of innovative architectural designs in a variety of North American and European cities including Toronto, were all eye-catching. Almost as of much interest was Ingels' remarkable design for the Serpentine Pavilion, an airy solid. (It was cold, granted, but that is what heaters were for.) This project's location in the heart of the dynamic Fashion District was well-chosen.
































I quite enjoyed this free exhibit. The different projects displayed, of innovative architectural designs in a variety of North American and European cities including Toronto, were all eye-catching. Almost as of much interest was Ingels' remarkable design for the Serpentine Pavilion, an airy solid. (It was cold, granted, but that is what heaters were for.) This project's location in the heart of the dynamic Fashion District was well-chosen.
































[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Dec. 29th, 2018 05:23 pm- Architectuul looks back at its work over 2018.
- Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait reflects on an odd photo of the odd galaxy NGC 3981.
- The Crux tells the story of how the moons of Jupiter, currently enumerated at 79 and including many oddly-shaped objects in odd orbits, have been found.
- Gizmodo notes how some astronomers have begun to use the precise rotations of neutron stars to calibrate atomic clocks on Earth.
- Keiran Healy shares a literally beautiful chart depicting mortality rates in France over two centuries.
- Hornet Stories notes that, two years after his death, the estate of George Michael is still making donations to the singer's favoured charities.
- At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox celebrates the Ramones song "I Wanna Be Sedated".
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how unauthorized migrants detained by the United States are being absorbed into the captive workforces of prisons.
- Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution approves of the Museum of the Bible, in Washington D.C., as a tourist destination.
- The NYR Daily looks at soccer (or football) in Morocco, as a badge of identity and as a vehicle for the political discussions otherwise repressed by the Moroccan state.
- Roads and Kingdoms reports on the paiche, a fish that is endangered in Peru but is invasively successful in Bolivia.
- Peter Rukavina makes a good point about the joys of unexpected fun.
- The Signal reports on how the American Folklife Centre processes its audio recordings in archiving them.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel debunks some myths about black holes, notably that their gravity is any more irresistible than that of any other object of comparable mass.
- Strange Company shares the contemporary news report from 1878 of a British man who binge-drank himself across the Atlantic to the United States.
- Window on Eurasia reports on a proposal in the fast-depopulating Magadan oblast of Russia to extend to all long-term residents the subsidies extended to native peoples.
- Arnold Zwicky reports on another Switzerland-like landscape, this one the shoreline around Lake Sevan in Armenia.
JSTOR Daily is a quality source of links that can accumulate quickly.
- JSTOR Daily shares ten poems about travel.
- JSTOR Daily notes the decidedly mixed environmental legacies of missionaries.
- JSTOR Daily explains why, exactly, a landlord in the medieval world might ask for a rose at Christmas time as rent.
- JSTOR Daily explores the immersive cyclorama of the 19th century.
- JSTOR Daily notes how, with a canny emphasis on the prestige of their drink and their lineages, dealers of champagne were able to build lucrative empires.
- JSTOR Daily takes a look at the 17th century German painter of insects Maria Sibylla Merian, now at last gaining recognition.
- JSTOR Daily summarizes a paper that examines why the literal image of Nelson Mandela is so popular, is so iconic.
- JSTOR Daily notes that, alas, the balance of the evidence suggests alcohol is not good for people.
- JSTOR Daily looks at "story papers", the inexpensive 19th century periodicals carrying stories targeted at boys and young men which ended up changing both popular literature and gender identities.
- Alexandra Samuel at JSTOR Daily takes a look, after Rachel Giese, at the ways in which the Internet and Internet culture can lead to outbreaks of misogyny.