https://concreteislands.cargo.site Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:41:58 +0000 https://concreteislands.cargo.site en https://concreteislands.cargo.site/Home Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:08 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/Home https://concreteislands.cargo.site/03 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:13 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/03 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35da41336349146a1e04b53d88d84a8a83a49960b540a3b975616e264c3ebbf2/c3.jpg" data-mid="55223647" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35da41336349146a1e04b53d88d84a8a83a49960b540a3b975616e264c3ebbf2/c3.jpg" /> J. G. Ballard, High-Rise, 1975 With its forty floors and thousand apartments, its supermarket and swimming-pools, bank and junior school — all in effect abandoned in the sky — the high-rise offered more than enough opportunities for violence and confrontation. https://concreteislands.cargo.site/08 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:14 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/08 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/070bdb47e20c3a738cae96997d0716e09c98f00ca823822fbfd3076f4ddecba6/cc4.jpg" data-mid="55232715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/070bdb47e20c3a738cae96997d0716e09c98f00ca823822fbfd3076f4ddecba6/cc4.jpg" /> Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978 Therefore, the performance can never end or even progress in the conventional sense of dramatic plotting; it can only be the cyclic restatement of a single theme: creation and destruction irrevocably interlocked, endlessly reenacted. The only suspense in the spectacle comes from the constantly escalating intensity of the performance. https://concreteislands.cargo.site/06 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:12 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/06 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19708dc8b2405e815b5a2b4d7a52d0b4945563e867aca897c4db96c9cca005a7/cc2.jpg" data-mid="55232460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19708dc8b2405e815b5a2b4d7a52d0b4945563e867aca897c4db96c9cca005a7/cc2.jpg" /> Edward Soja, Postmetropolis, 2000 Interwoven with the jumbled spatiality of the globalized postfordist exopolis is a recomposed sociality that has become similarly fluid, fragmented, decentered, and rearranged in complex patterns that are only beginning to be recognized, understood, and effectively studied. https://concreteislands.cargo.site/05 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:13 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/05 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32b27d89cf1ac1da2da9dfc95d92f6e77e1f7c14c6f097a94cb6aef55865e87d/c99.jpg" data-mid="55232906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32b27d89cf1ac1da2da9dfc95d92f6e77e1f7c14c6f097a94cb6aef55865e87d/c99.jpg" />J. G. Ballard, Date/Origin Unknown I consider the city to be an outdated structure, incapable of expressing the deep dreams of our time. Cities seem very old-fashioned to me… Now, we communicate by electronic means. The Internet is, above all, the dream of suburbia. I see the future as a kind of planetary suburbia, an infinity of boredom interrupted by unpredictable acts of violence. https://concreteislands.cargo.site/04 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:12 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/04 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/112358d4ce9d1690295ac58d21c8235b0e775c21e37888f8234068e1f60a444c/c4.jpg" data-mid="55225450" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/112358d4ce9d1690295ac58d21c8235b0e775c21e37888f8234068e1f60a444c/c4.jpg" /> Tom Wolfe, Bauhaus to Our House, 1981There are now new approaches, new movements, new isms: Post-Modernism, Late Modernism, Rationalism, participatory architecture, Neo-Corbu, and the Los Angeles Silvers. Which add up to what? To such things as building more glass boxes and covering them with mirrored plate glass so as to reflect the glass boxes next door and distort their boring straight lines into curves. https://concreteislands.cargo.site/09 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:41:58 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/09 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f2496f5505ba5630fc65357e8a5f54409c4abf86a9d867924dc2aee0a77bd3a/ccx5.jpg" data-mid="55232753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f2496f5505ba5630fc65357e8a5f54409c4abf86a9d867924dc2aee0a77bd3a/ccx5.jpg" />J. G. Ballard, Date/Origin Unknown I don't take anything at its face value—the angle between 2 walls, the perspectives that a given street or a given corridor offer to me. I regard all these as data which will play their role in whatever hypothesis I'm proposing to offer, to explain the significance of mysterious and apparently unrelated objects, this huge network of ciphers, and encoded instructions—perhaps—that surround us in reality. https://concreteislands.cargo.site/07 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:13 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/07 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e71a1b2e7abde195ce82d574461f98a314dd2d2c8c604a0f88657a9a447fbb1/cc3.jpg" data-mid="55232624" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e71a1b2e7abde195ce82d574461f98a314dd2d2c8c604a0f88657a9a447fbb1/cc3.jpg" />J. G. Ballard, Date/Origin Unknown People worry about security in their office buildings.That's always a key indicator of internal stress: the obsession with the invisible intruder in the fortress—the other self, the silent brother who clones himself off from the unconscious. https://concreteislands.cargo.site/02 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:15 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/02 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57f0f197c7c0a3d0d1a2616139ed51e40c751d1a144e533590df2cee53aca964/c77.jpg" data-mid="55232857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57f0f197c7c0a3d0d1a2616139ed51e40c751d1a144e533590df2cee53aca964/c77.jpg" /> Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning, 1929 The city of today is a dying thing because it is not geometrical. To build in the open would be to replace our present haphazard arrangements, which are all we have today, by a uniform lay-out. Unless we do this there is no salvation. https://concreteislands.cargo.site/01 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:52:14 +0000 Concrete Islands — Cargo Example Site https://concreteislands.cargo.site/01 <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b5bff7ccdbf24879d7685f12eef6194b9317abd9c59cb7c230574a2f6dfb58c/c1.jpg" data-mid="55220965" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b5bff7ccdbf24879d7685f12eef6194b9317abd9c59cb7c230574a2f6dfb58c/c1.jpg" />Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.