The Architect's Newspaper October/November 2020
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Virginia Hanusik captures the coasts page 70
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s panoptic eye page 68
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Site Sensitive
Thanks to a design coalition with ties to the community, a Philadelphia street art landmark is set to live on as a public park.
It’s time for designers to embrace fire as the ecological and cultural force that it is. Read on page 25.
T. JOHNSON
Natural’s Sorta in It
Heatherwick Studio and MNLA bridge structure and botany at Little Island. Read on page 20.
DESIGN CRIT
A nationwide “Superstudio” aims to broaden the appeal of the Green New Deal beyond the liberal coasts. Read on page 28.
MICHAEL GRIMM
MEGHAN L . E . KIRK WOOD
STUDIO ZEWDE
Put aside worries about Google Street View’s surveillance capability, and its HD cameras will open up myriad strange and wonderfully immersive views into landscapes both out-of-the-way and under-the-radar. There’s a privacy and an intimacy in clicking through those public, panoptic street scenes, as disembodied visitors form their impressions of a place based on a stranger’s documentation. The immersive format works especially well at sites like Philadelphia’s Graffiti Pier, a disused coal bridge on the Delaware River that in recent years has gained notoriety as a mecca for aerosol art. Thanks to Street View user Mark Henninger, who documented the allée, as well as more than 14,000 Instagram tags, I can stroll under the pier’s concrete arches to admire the colorful cartoon characters and writhing arabesques in high-res. A place like Graffiti Pier is both an open-air gallery and a living monument to changing economics. The site was once part of the giant Port Richmond rail yard, a busy inland exchange where ships were loaded up with Pennsylvania anthracite for distribution along the Eastern Seaboard and on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Freight company and current owner Conrail bought the industrial area in the mid-1970s, continued on page 10
Take it Outside
This year’s outdoor products special section highlights the latest in planters, benches, downlights, and more. See page 44.
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