[Image: Ruined swimming pool at Uday's Palace, Jebel Makhoul, Iraq (2009); photo by Richard Mosse]. From the ever amazing BLDGBLOG, an interview with photographer Richard Mosse “These extraordinary images—published here for the first time—show the imperial palaces of Saddam Hussein converted into temporary housing for the U.S military. Vast, self-indulgent halls of columned marble and [...]
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Saddam’s Palaces: Architecture and Redefined Narratives
Posted in Architecture, art, photography, tagged architecture in Iraq, richard mosse, saddam's palaces on 11/21/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Detroit’s Ice House
Posted in Architecture, politics, tagged interactive community art, Midwest on 10/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ice House A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one of Detroit’s thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region. The project from Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune, dubbed Ice House Detroit, is the latest example of the remnants of Detroit’s population [...]
