a scale reference with someone that’s 175cm tall.
Urbanmatic is a collection of environments and urban spaces that are off most radars; spaces that we hustle in and out of everyday here in Taipei and other places we've lived-in, visited, or longed to visit. Urbanmatic is a by-product of modern cities, scripting its new found contexts as it evolves.
These are places and spaces that inspired us.
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These are places and spaces that inspired us.
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urbanmatic
One of my favorite, British artist Roger Hiorn converted an apartment slated for demolition in London into a place encrusted with copper sulphate crystal. He achieved this by flooding the spaces with hot saturated copper sulphate solution that form crystals when cooled. Although this piece was done 2 years ago and the building demolished shortly after the exhibition, I find myself coming back to these powerful images over and over again. What an incredible architectural act of sublime beauty. Truly epic.
A most avant garde Spiritual Center
from left: A betel nut store (called “The Strange of the Strange” Brothers’ professional Betel Nuts) for mind enhancement, a tiny hair/nail/ear-cleaning salon for image transformation and a temple for spiritual transformation- all condensed into one multiplex with a tree growing out of the middle. Eat your heart out foreign architects, you will never ever get this program combo from your client’s brief!
Urban fabric (a term architects and planners like to use) is an urban tartan here…
The house of stairs: a 12-storeys building made entirely of stairways.
Illegal balcony extensions added onto a building. These are so remarkably uniform and systematic although they were done by different tenants at different times; or did the developer of the building offer them as an extra service? Or the tenants got together and negotiated a great group rate on illegal extensions?
A building made of words…
The text is actually an expose of a stock market “famous mouth” (someone that talks about stocks in the media) scamming the innocent.
