STUDIO: 05.07.09

9.7.09

barcelona's odd behavio(u)r.

in keeping with never-ending surprises, it has been cloudy for the past two days in the catalan capital...and has been raining all day. i know what you're thinking. rain? remember the drought of 2007? it's feeling more like a crisp/wet fall day as i go to different neighborhoods looking at flats. i haven't seen many (more to come tomorrow), but all are typical 3 or 4 bedroom flats. my favorite so far being one occupied by a friendly girl from galicia, a proper british deb, and a french IT genius. the areas of sants & les corts (near my school) have a lot to offer in terms of affordable/shared/cute options.

for those curious...i'm including bcn construction updates straight from the Rambla del Raval, behind CCCB (a heine group), and la Barceloneta.

barceló raval hotel

library expansion

W hotel

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8.7.09

This is not a Morphallaxis

Don't worry, theCollective is far more meticulous than we may appear @ the moment. Undergoing a bit of alteration.

Edit: HA! It seems the picture essay is under alteration as well. It has been removed do to the photographer's unreported digital manipulation. I still like it.

While you wait, I recommend pondering Edgar Martin's haunting photo story for the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Edgar Martin for the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

The series makes me wonder how much building and designing architects will do from nothing in the future. It seems pretty exciting to think that adaptive design will take on a whole new rich meaning. Gone is the "omg I'm so cool I live in a factory gentrification", and enter a whole new reality. What do you do twenty years from now with an unfinished multi-million dollar hotel complex, empty strip malls, malls, and unfinished suburbs? Layers. Predicting better layers.

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