+ From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+ Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:00:01 +0530
| was at dinner the other day with two SC lawyers
| and two journalists, conversation turned to architecture
| and the stories regularly appearing in the Hindu and
| Express. i don't get these newspapers, so was bemused
| and even more bemused at the lawyer's bemusement at the
| apparent of cultivated naivety of such articles ...
|
| wondering which one is more sur-real...
| the first pig, hot air...
* Animals, agriculture, and city planning *
A. Srivathsan
* Providing multipurpose farmland within urban areas could help alleviate
poverty besides improving the aesthetics of our cities. *
IN 2001, the Dutch architecture firm MVRDV proposed an exclusive city
for pigs. The 15.2 million pigs in the Netherlands were to be
collectively reared in the 76 towers of this city. The many floors of
the 622-metre tall towers were to house the pigs that were to be taken
in lifts to the abattoir on the ground floor. Each tower was to have a
fish farm to supply food for the pigs and a biogas tank to provide
energy for the building. Those who think animals have to be excluded
from cities and kept quarantined in a separate place find such radical
projects appealing.
http://mail.architexturez.net/+/MPISG-Media/archive/msg01164.shtml
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| the second pig, helium:
The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in
December 1976 in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals
album. The 40 foot, helium- filled balloon was flown over Battersea
Power Station on the first day's photo-shoot, with a marksman prepared
to shoot the pig down if it broke free. The pig didn't escape, but none
of the photos taken that day were considered usable.
On the second day, the marksman wasn't present; but the pig supposedly
"broke free" (gaining a lot of press coverage) after a huge gust of
wind. It disappeared from sight, and was spotted by airline pilots at
40,000 feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as
the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards
from Britain, over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm
in Kent that night.
http://www.superseventies.com/floydcvr.html
| given pigs could indeed fly, must we not have an
| annual blow-down-the-pig award-contest for blowing-pigs in
| architectural journalism? what are the qualifynig criteria?
| and two journalists, conversation turned to architecture
| and the stories regularly appearing in the Hindu and
| Express. i don't get these newspapers, so was bemused
| and even more bemused at the lawyer's bemusement at the
| apparent of cultivated naivety of such articles ...
|
| wondering which one is more sur-real...
| the first pig, hot air...
* Animals, agriculture, and city planning *
A. Srivathsan
* Providing multipurpose farmland within urban areas could help alleviate
poverty besides improving the aesthetics of our cities. *
IN 2001, the Dutch architecture firm MVRDV proposed an exclusive city
for pigs. The 15.2 million pigs in the Netherlands were to be
collectively reared in the 76 towers of this city. The many floors of
the 622-metre tall towers were to house the pigs that were to be taken
in lifts to the abattoir on the ground floor. Each tower was to have a
fish farm to supply food for the pigs and a biogas tank to provide
energy for the building. Those who think animals have to be excluded
from cities and kept quarantined in a separate place find such radical
projects appealing.
http://mail.architexturez.net/+/MPISG-Media/archive/msg01164.shtml
---------------------
| the second pig, helium:
The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in
December 1976 in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals
album. The 40 foot, helium- filled balloon was flown over Battersea
Power Station on the first day's photo-shoot, with a marksman prepared
to shoot the pig down if it broke free. The pig didn't escape, but none
of the photos taken that day were considered usable.
On the second day, the marksman wasn't present; but the pig supposedly
"broke free" (gaining a lot of press coverage) after a huge gust of
wind. It disappeared from sight, and was spotted by airline pilots at
40,000 feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as
the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards
from Britain, over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm
in Kent that night.
http://www.superseventies.com/floydcvr.html
| given pigs could indeed fly, must we not have an
| annual blow-down-the-pig award-contest for blowing-pigs in
| architectural journalism? what are the qualifynig criteria?
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Partial thread listing:
- pigs: If pigs could fly! Animals, agriculture, and city planning [ with apologies to pink floyd ], Architexturez.
- Pink Floyd: Music for Architectural Students, Architexturez. (2006-07-28)
- Re: rock 'n roll architecture: Mouth of the Architect, Architexturez.
- Re: metal architecture: Architect, formerly Found Dead Hanging, Architexturez.
- plain old non-plannerly head-bashing (and what a relief): Questions for Alexandre Nucinovitski (the Suicide), Architexturez-IN (2008-03-31)