Projects tagged
Housing & Land
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Experimental Wall #27
Read more: Experimental Wall #27This action was suggested in the workshop assembly by a neighbor of Arrayán street itself. At the end of this street giving the market there was a wall in a state of collapse that concerned the neighborhood. On several occasions,…
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Gem Spa Rally Turns Beloved East Village Institution Into Mock “Schitibank”
Read more: Gem Spa Rally Turns Beloved East Village Institution Into Mock “Schitibank”A source of delicious egg creams and daily newspapers since at least the 1930s, an unassuming shop at the corner of St. Marks Place and 2nd Avenue was renamed Gem Spa in 1957 and swiftly transformed into a meeting ground…
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Art Inspection notices
Read more: Art Inspection noticesBogus building inspection notices with the forged signature of city Building Inspection Director Frank Chiu appeared on buildings in San Francisco’s South of Market area, prompting an investigation by exasperated city officials. Project LOFT, as posted in July 2000: “In…
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“You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE” world record
Read more: “You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE” world recordOn October 6th, 2007, we beat a new world record. Thousands of people in cities all across Spain simultaneously shouted: “You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE!” The decibels radiating from this collective cry were registered by…
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A Gift for Amsterdam
Read more: A Gift for AmsterdamIn the summer of 2011, squatters take over an unused building, once an animal shelter, and begin renovating it into a social and cultural center for a neighborhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. They call it Op de Valreep (“in…