Resale Engineering

Pale carnage beneath bright mist

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Christopher Hitchens: 13 April 1949 - 15 December 2011

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

Allegories Of Rescue

* Four years later, on the 3rd March 1972, Pruitt-Igoe famously enacted the death of modernism. Its architect, Monoru Yamasaki, had already designed the World Trade Center complex, which opened on the 4th April 1973.

Auscultatory

I'll show you houses of architectural renown / Some are still standing, some have fallen down

Obligatory Post #5Oct2011

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people."

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

Mayoral Creeds

"Στην περίπτωση λοιπόν του Κωνσταντίνου Γιωρκάτζη είναι φανερό ότι το διακύβευμα είναι κυρίως πολιτικό και, μοιραία, εκ των συνθηκών, λιγότερο αυτοδιοικητικό.
Αυτό αποτελεί και τη βασική επιδίωξη του Δημοκρατικού Συναγερμού, όχι μόνο στη Λευκωσία αλλά παγκύπρια. Την προσπάθεια δηλαδή να κεφαλαιοποιήσει τη δυσαρέσκεια για την Κυβέρνηση Χριστόφια με ευνοϊκά για τον ΔΗΣΥ αποτελέσματα, που θα αποτελέσουν και το πολυπόθητο πρόκριμα για τις προεδρικές εκλογές. Μια τέτοια στάση αποτελεί δυστυχώς κακή υπηρεσία για τον τόπο, αφού το μόνο που εξυπηρετεί είναι τις φιλοδοξίες του Νίκου Αναστασιάδη."


"The smartest cities are the ones that embrace openness, randomness and serendipity — everything that makes a city great."

CRYPUS

Untitled (Ο Θεός Μαζί Σας), 2011

#TeaParty

Killing The Bus!

Freti-ti-ti-ti-ti

Οικόπεδο 1981-1984

Shifting Sands

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Addendum.

A Cypriot In New York

I like my toast with some elies.

Forget Me Not

Δεν Ξεχνώ.



"Aπό την επίσκεψη του Αρχιεπισκόπου Μακαρίου, Προέδρου της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας στη Λιβύη τον Νοέμβριο 1973. Ο Πάτροκλος Σταύρου, Υφυπουργός παρά τω Προέδρω της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας με τον Πρόεδρο της Λιβύης Μουαμάρ Καντάφι."

A Delightful Phantasmagoria

"Read A Motherfucking Book!"

Sick!

Now will you listen?

"For better or worse, the buildings of the 1960s were designed from the inside out. Even the most reviled of blocks contain spacious apartments. Even the most alarming crumbling concrete hulks have residents who will say: 'But they're lovely inside.'
The new blocks are designed from the outside in, irregular windows and brightly-coloured cladding hide the tiny, mean proportions and a total lack of planning for human use."

Nasty, Short and Brutalist on the BBC. Tune in.

Barcelona In Pieces

"Gaudi used psychiatric hospital and its patients as his test bed."