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Musicalizing the weather through landscape architecture
The idea of listening to a landscape – how to podcast a landscape, for instance – tends to be literally overlooked in favor of a site’s visual impact or even its smell. When I was in Greece a few years...
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The B-flat Range
[Image: Jackie Dee Grom, Antarctic ventifacts. From Cabinet]. Katabatic Winds In the current issue of Cabinet Magazine, Jackie Dee Grom introduces us to ventifacts, or “geologic formations shaped by...
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The Weather Bowl
[Image: A passing Illinois lightning storm and supercell, the clouds peeling away to reveal evening stars; photo ©Extreme Instability/Mike Hollingshead. If you can overlook pet photos, meanwhile, don’t...
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Zone for Cloud
[Image: Detail of a zoning map for New York City]. Earlier this month, mammoth – just two months old, but already one of the more interesting architecture blogs out there – cited climatological...
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Shelved in the Sky
I couldn’t resist this photo of a man blown off his feet by high winds on the British coast. [Image: Photo by Steve Poole/Rex Features, via the Guardian]. How could we take better spatial advantage of...
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The Annals of Weather Warfare
[Image: Kurt, the Nazi weather station, via Beachcombing]. My morning began with the fascinating story of Kurt, a forgotten Nazi weather station installed on the coast of Labrador during World War II...
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Weather is the Future of Urban Design
[Image: From a newscast about Istanbul’s recent tornadoes]. It’s hard to resist a story where urban design is blamed for creating tornadoes. But the recent cluster of “freak mini-tornadoes” striking...
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Abandoned Basements as Stormwater Basins
[Image: Rendering of a possible “BaseTern” landscape by students Brett Harris, Andrew D’Arcy, and Heidi Petersen, via Landscape Architecture Magazine]. Not all the news coming out of Milwaukee involves...
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The London Time Ball
[Image: The London “time ball” at Greenwich, courtesy Royal Museums Greenwich]. Thanks to the effects of jet lag getting worse as I get older, I was basically awake for five days in London last...
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Purely in terms of extreme landscapes, this planet is certainly one of the most notable: eight times the mass of Jupiter, but starless, adrift, an “orphaned world” without a sun, “somehow shot out of...
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