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the architecture issey miyake commissioned for his stores was really incredible, starting with his longtime collaboration with shiro kuramata (who also designed perfume bottles for him)
Diana Budds
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Diana Budds
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writer covering design, urbanism, and culture. | recent work in @fastcodesign @archpaper @wallpapermag | 📥 [email protected] | 🇵🇭 + 🇲🇹
- a look at the typologies of COVID-19 improvisational architecture. first off: color blocking!
- everything in this story, but especially this from a walmart cashier: "We’re not essential. We’re sacrificial. I will be replaced if I die from this. I don’t have a mask or gloves. The only thing I have is a stupid blue vest." slate.com/news-and-polit…
- still blows my mind that canada gave a 25-year-old moshe safdie $17 million to build his his thesis project
- deny climate change and nature gets its revenge
- RIP arata isozaki (1931-2022) wish i could have visited the palladium, which he designed in 1985 nytimes.com/1985/05/20/nyr… archdaily.com/912757/arata-i…
- melt it down, sell it for scrap, and donate the money to a crisis hotline
- cubicles are back! google's new office is really giving me jacques tati's 'playtime' (which was an inspiration for the corporate dystopia for severance!) fortune.com/longform/googl…
- i'm deeply fascinated by the new high line connector and the version of nyc that it enables pedestrians to access - you could come from moynihan through manhattan west to hudson yards and down to meatpacking and only cross one actual street
- daily reminder that our government is one big trash fire 🔥🚮
- we stan @bobbyberk, the clairvoyant, sensitive, witty, and brilliant design guru television needs curbed.com/2019/8/23/2082…
- where's this energy when it comes to a 5,000lb suv speeding through a red light? double parking? cutting pedestrians off in a crosswalk? blocking a bike lane? it's pretty sick that the safety enforcement we're getting is so narrow.Police seizing mopeds at the Williamsburg Bridge now
- radicalized on 4chan, posted on google docs, streamed on twitch - tech companies have culpability in the deepening racism and worsening racial violenceNew from me: @NBCNews confirms the manifesto written in the name of the Buffalo shooter was posted Thursday night. It's a bog standard white supremacist Great Replacement Theory rant. It says he was radicalized on 4chan while "bored" during the pandemic. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…
