Sunday, May 3, 2009

You're Like Mario Andretti 'Cause He Always Drives His Car Well

adventure sunday

Jordie and Alyssa companions
beautiful
beautiful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania
more
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hopped the metro to orestad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestad
headquarters of DR, Danish Radio, the state-sanctioned tv and radio station
visited the inside for class last week, awesome

a building three ways
one
to
tre

nice colors

he's everywhere


disneyworld


ridiculous architecture-reason we were there
Denmark installs one wind-turbine every 3 hours 24 hours a day 5 days a week

Ørestad is a developing city area in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the island of Amager. The area is being developed using the new town concept with the Copenhagen Metro as the primary public transport grid, connecting the area with the rest of Metropolitan Copenhagen. The central part of Ørestad, Ørestad City, is situated 4.5 km west of Copenhagen Airport Kastrup and 5 km south of Copenhagen city centre. The area is dominated by the Ferring building and the largest shopping center in all of Scandinavia: Field's.

The area of Ørestad is 3.1 million sq.m. being about 600 metres wide and five kilometres long. It borders Tårnby on the eastern side and Amager Fælled and Kalvebod Fælled on the western. The area is divided into four districts: Ørestad Nord, Amager Fælled kvarteret, Ørestad City and Ørestad Syd.

The legislation regarding Ørestad was enacted in 1992 because the unused areas were regarded as being too valuable. Ørestadsselskabet I/S (Ørestad Development Corporation) was founded March 11, 1993 to manage the growth of the city district. The corporation is owned 55% by Copenhagen municipality and 45% by the Danish state. The development is expected to take 20 to 30 years at a cost of about €175 million, and it is expected that 20,000 people will live in Ørestad, 20,000 will study, and 60,000 people will be employed in the area.
you can tell that everything is super spaced-out and airy
the place was weird
pre-planned





glass house
no rocks allowed

like living in a comic book page


headless and disabled
this is someone's front door

canal in the back

crazy triangle decks

moon
garden decks


me in the street

you can see the skyline from the suburbs
windswept old woman

2 comments:

Patrick Eagan-Van Meter said...

Greenbelt was designed with the same idea in mind, but looks significantly less nieche nieche.

Anonymous said...

Yes Greenbelt is not nearly as up to date. Reston was also a designed city but not nearly as interesting.
MOM