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Como 2: Linear city 6 Sep 2010 | 08:51 am
Brunate (Photographer: Short Journeys/Flickr) (click-2-enlarge) When I interviewed Dutch architect John Körmeling this spring on his design for the Dutch pavilion on the Shanghai Expo 2010, he told m...
Como 1: Airport 20 Jun 2010 | 06:46 am
Como (Photographer: Albyper/Flickr) (click-2-enlarge) Generally airports are considered a hazard. All airports in the Netherlands, big and small, receive huge amounts of complaints about the noise of...
Land Art Generator Initiative 30 May 2010 | 09:18 am
Looking at the city from Site 1 (Copyright Land Art Generator Initiative) (click-2-enlarge) There is still a week to submit a proposal in the Land Art Generator Initiative competition. The brief of t...
Olympic rings, by Bartels 29 May 2010 | 08:06 am
Aquarius (Copyright Bartels Engineering) (click-2-enlarge) What if Nike would start to invest in its environmental image by collecting the waste in one of the continuously growing plastic soups in ou...
Marrakech 4: El Badi Palace 4 Apr 2010 | 01:14 am
Marrakech - El-Badi Palace (Photographer: OliverN4/Flickr) (click-2-enlarge) In the southern quarter of the old city of Marrakech, a massive wall cuts through the fabric of the city. Beyond this wall...
Marrakech 3: Walls 27 Mar 2010 | 03:24 am
Marrakech - Wall around the medina (Photographer: Patrick Mayon/Flickr) I suppose most cities around the world strive for a certain coherence in their urban fabric. Even if the urban fabric is a patc...
Marrakech 2: Souks 21 Feb 2010 | 07:51 am
Marrakech (Photographer: vtveen/Flickr) (click-2-enlarge) “No, that would give the wrong idea”, our twenty something chauffeur answered when we asked him whether he went to clubs. He was married and ...
Marrakech 1: Doors 30 Jan 2010 | 03:58 am
Marrakech (Photographer: Marieken Oostrom) (click-2-enlarge) In Marrakech buildings don’t have a façade. They come without one. The buildings in the old city, the medina, I mean. Sure, the bending pa...
Volcano, by Piano 3 Jan 2010 | 01:48 pm
Renzo Piano - Volcano Buono, Napels (Copyright Moreno Maggi RPBW) (click-2-enlarge) Like a chameleon, architecture can mimic any natural landscape it sits on. From a Swiss alp, to the British cliffs,...
Editorial Office 3 Jan 2010 | 03:43 am
Naarden Vesting (Photographer: Ianus/Flickr) (click-2-enlarge) In the past couple of months time to write posts for Eikongraphia proved to be scarce. Long working weeks combined with packed weekends ...
