Let me try to resume what I am reading these days: leading US tech firms are achieving milestones with boosting values at stock exchange. The magnificent seven are the main part of the S&P 500. there are mergers that combine classical software companies (as for example Microsoft) with future companies as e.g. Open AI singularContinueContinue reading “A.I.”
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HAPPY 2023. STAY STRONG. STAY KOLLECTIVE
Humanity has been put through several tests during the third decade of the XXI century. Once we were almost out of the pandemic nightmare, a maniac leader starts a war taking advantage of the worlds’ numb state of mind. Every one was caught on its back foot…This dreadful event, reminds us that History is lessContinueContinue reading “HAPPY 2023. STAY STRONG. STAY KOLLECTIVE”
COMFORT ZONE
Thanks to the Russian´s agression, the West is waking up. Typical pick-up at California highway near Monterey, 2022 Foto: Claus Spix “Whenever we heat, we consume energy. Whenever we heat with fossil fuels, we produce CO2.” Whenever we switch on an air condition or we stoke a fireplace, we do a little damage to theContinueContinue reading “COMFORT ZONE”
Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The Çiftçi Towers
On October 16, 2020, we published an article of this same series, dedicated to what we believe are the most emblematic and best known of all the Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul: the TAT Towers. What might seem surreal to many is that more than 20 years after those twin towers were left abandoned, another pair,ContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The Çiftçi Towers”
Istanbul’s Urban Fauna
The crude reality is that this fast growing metropolis is pushing out of their natural habitat the endemic species that once roamed freely in it. This rapid change generates a clash between two worlds apart. And we know who is going to win.
The Dream of the Green – Part 2
BACK TO THE HAMPTONS, CLAIRE! „Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half anContinueContinue reading “The Dream of the Green – Part 2”
HAPPY 2021. STAY STRONG. STAY KOLLECTIVE.
2020 was a test to human kind. The year we didn’t expect to live. Slowly, we adapted and found ways to pull through such hard times. One of them was building ARKollective. Through the last 8 months, since ARKollective went online, we tried to decipher and understand the impacts of the pandemic in design, architectureContinueContinue reading “HAPPY 2021. STAY STRONG. STAY KOLLECTIVE.”
The Dream of the Green – Part 1
Hospital Facade refurbishment Frankfurt, Image © Claus Spix During the last century huge efforts have been made with political reforms and medical research. As we learned at school, as a consequence of this the world population has begun to grow steadily more than 120 years ago and it is this still without reaching its peak.ContinueContinue reading “The Dream of the Green – Part 1”
How safe are our Train Stations?
Covid-19 and public transport “All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages.” Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie Cologne Central station, PHOTO © Claus Spix “It was five o’clock on a winter’s morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train grandly designated in railway guidesContinueContinue reading “How safe are our Train Stations?”
Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The GPIH
THE GRAND PRESTIGE ISTANBUL HOTEL The GPIH seen from the Taraby Bayıarı Avenue. Photo by Joao Cruz Neves. During the 90’s, Uran Holding started the construction of the Grand Prestige Istanbul Hotel (GPIH) in the area of Hacıosman, on the top of the hills of the Tarabya neighborhood, over the European Bosphorus side. If itContinueContinue reading “Abandoned Buildings of Istanbul – Data Gathering – The GPIH”
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