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there is something so breathtaking in our fragile expressions.
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Sharon Pazner
An abandoned igloo resort hotel in Alaska. photo: Sara Heinrichs
Tower view from above (mixed media model: plaster and paper mix)
© Viktoria Kovalevskaya
Nest Factory
“This drab, windowless concrete facade does not conceal an electricity substation, data servers, or a high security detention center,” Nicola Twilley writes over at GOOD. It is, instead, a living birds’ nest factory, an emerging building type that has “spread across Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and even Cambodia, towering above traditional one-story structures and transforming the urban landscape.” Their purpose? To foster the production of swiftlet nests, used in Chinese bird’s nest soup.
Nicola explains that these nest farms are, in effect, surrogate geological formations: “the buildings are intended to mimic caves,” she writes, where the swiftlets would normally live, “with a carefully spaced matrix of wooden rafters replacing the ledges and crannies of a cave ceiling, and detailed attention paid to internal temperature, humidity, and even sound.”
They are, in effect, part of what could be called a saliva industry, as the nests are made from swiftlet saliva. A spitshop, say, instead of a sweatshop. Mechanize this one step further, and full-scale 3D saliva-printing might not be far off…
St. Francis Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, 1931 by Paul Strand
Gerhard Kiesling. Un pays change de visage: Trattendorf, région du Spreewald, Allemangne (DDR), 1958.
Felipe Uribe de Bedout, Mauricio Gaviria and Hector Mejia Velez: Templos de Las Cenizas y Crematorio, Campos de Paz, Medellin, 1998
Type 703, Emminkhuizen, The Netherlands.
from Abandoned WW2 bunkers series
“By 1920, Ferriss had begun to develop his own style, frequently presenting the building at night, lit up by spotlights, or in a fog, as if photographed with a soft focus. The shadows cast by and on the building became almost as important as the revealed surfaces. He had somehow managed to develop a style that would elicit emotional responses from the viewer.”
