FINALLY... Kaas am Markt has opened

If you are wondering what I was up to the last couple of months:
Here are some images of the market stand we designed.

FABRIC - Atelier for Architecture Urbanism Landscape
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all images by FABRIC

Please be patient.....

The last months have been a quite stressfull time.
But Synchronicity will relaunch soon....


In the meantime watch out for the delicious links (check the sidebar)

! MAP THIS ! #16

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via RADICAL CARTOGRAPHY
in the archive: see subways in scale

portrait - STEINBRENER/DEMPF

Trouble in Paradise - A sunken car wreck at the rhinos, railroad tracks in the bison pen or toxic waste in the aquarium are unexpectedly interfering with our notions of idyllic wildlife. Trouble in Paradise is a temporary irritating installation in the Viennese Zoo by artists Steinbrener/Dempf.In large part, the Austrian artists deal with perception of public space. They got great attention back in 2005 with the temporary installation DELETE!, where they 'erased' any advertisment, sign, slogan, pictogram, company name in a prominent Viennese shopping street. A phenomenon we are sufficiently familar with from two-dimensional representations and photomontage works was translated f into three-dimensionality. Delettering the Public Space.
::: all images via Steinbrener/Dempf

GIBELLINA II

:: image via Flickr user charlesbegniamino

Thanks to a post by mammoth this is a follow up to Synchronicity's Gibellina entry from May with links to awesome pictures of Alberto Burri’s Grande Cretto and the other artworks of Gibellina.

Grande Cretto
Gibellina 1
Gibellina 2
Gibellina art

In the Archives: Gibellina

PARI(S) PLUS PETIT

The project Paris Plus petit by MVRDV in collaboration with ACS and AAF is one of ten proposals by international architecture and urbanism teams to envision the future of the French capital and its vast agglomeration. The urban challenge has been commissioned by French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

! MAP THIS ! #15 TIME-LAPSE VIDEOS OF MASSIVE CHANGE ON EARTH

Sucking Out The Aral Sea:


or Clearing the Amazon

Over the past decade, the number of people on Earth shot up by more than 13 percent, to nearly 6.8 billion people. To make room for all the hungry, breeding, CO2-emitting bodies on our small planet, we’ve ravaged Earth’s surface with staggering feats of deforestation, irrigation and urbanization — and NASA satellites have captured it all. The videos shown above (and a few more on Wired) are compiled from images posted on NASA’s Earth Observatory, of some of the most impressive conquests of man over environment.