Slog - Comments on A Note on Modernism http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127 If there is to be hope for the future, one of the three popular toys that should be abolished is the dollhouse. What a girl/boy should have instead for play is a residential tower. A dollhouse, like a toy car, weakens, rather than strengthens, the social instincts in a child. And as experience shows, social instincts, unlike selfish ones, take time, effort, an education to develop. With a tower as a toy, the habit of living with others in dense locations is introduced at an early age. The dollhouse encourages the complete opposite habit--the habit of homeownership. And the consequence... Copyright 2008 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:35:14 -0800 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:29:25 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by konstantconsumer fucking christ, man.

]]> konstantconsumer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652199 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652199 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:56:24 -0800 Comment by Morgan Building blocks create beautiful cities and opportunities for collaboration; cars and toy houses don't inspire the spatial excersizes and interactions that are essential to the development of future math and social skills. They don’t inspire anything really, except self-absorption. Toy trains are way more engaging than match box race cars, they require engineering and physics skills. Teach your children well and let them lead the way.

]]> Morgan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652200 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652200 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:57:11 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Uh, isn't that an office tower, not an apartment building?

Also, 20x160,000 = 3,200,000 or more, since I know a lot of those are a lot more than 20, which means probably at least 3 times more multi-units than single-families.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652293 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652293 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:14:38 -0800 Comment by monkey I used to make futuristic buildings with my legos all the time.

But what's the problem with toy cars? I loved my toy cars!

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652314 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652314 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:26:49 -0800 Comment by Andrew I read that not as 160,000 buildings with 20 plus units, but as 160,000 units within buildings that contain 20 plus units. Which even if you take the lowest possible number of units has got to be less than 8000 buildings.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652323 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652323 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:32:54 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Ah, you're right; my bad. I could swear there are more new buildings like that just in Ballard.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652343 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652343 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:48:51 -0800 Comment by ironymaiden hmm. we *have* embraced Le Corbusier's modernism, by segregating where we live from where we work and shop. a fascination with his theories stopped multi-use development for years, and created housing sub-divisions and wide freeways that connect them to business districts that are alive only from 9-5.

]]> ironymaiden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652365 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652365 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:08:07 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Yes. Le Corbusier's legacy is all over the globe, falling into disrepair faster than anyone would have thought and being torn down as rapidly as possible. The operative image here is an auditorium full of residents of the Robert Taylor Homes in St. Louis, chanting "Blow It Up! Blow It Up!". Which they did.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652387 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652387 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:21:11 -0800 Comment by Buster Mies van der Rohe was a fraud; the mis-use of technology has become the fatal disease of civilization.

]]> Buster http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652526 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652526 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:13:28 -0800 Comment by Sean Charles, I'm afraid all you've done here is prove that people who haven't raised kids no absolutely nothing about them.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652576 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652576 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:06:26 -0800 Comment by -B- Vancouver BC has opted for mass redevelopment using the tower. It has sucked the soul out of this city. People say Vancouver is great. There is nothing here that defines it as a great city, it is trying to be like other cities but mediocrity rules here because of the condo tower.
Take away the mountains and beaches and Vancouver is a very ugly city with not much to do except look at Graffiti that looks the same as any other cities Graffiti or go drink over priced booze with a thousand Paris Hilton wannabes with too much attitude. And if you want some interesting gay bar to go to it seems most are turning into sports bars with no creativity or coolness. Most of the cool stuff is gone, the history wiped clean so that no one knows what used to be. All because of massive condo tower developments and the losers that move into them and put white plastic lawn chairs on every balcony.
Give me an old house to move into any day.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652593 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:43:25 -0800 Comment by -B- BTW the Seagram Building (Mies van der Rohe) is an office building

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652594 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652594 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:45:55 -0800 Comment by Bryan And apparently, Sean, parents don't "no" how to spell.

]]> Bryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652625 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652625 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:44:45 -0800 Comment by ME I'll take a concrete, steel and glass condo in Belltown over a rotting, overgrown, bungalow any day of the week. Mies rules.

]]> ME http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652654 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652654 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:17:42 -0800 Comment by Sean Bryan, that was a loe bleau.

]]> Sean http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652661 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652661 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:27:53 -0800 Comment by JMW I don't think you'd be so keen on scale if you had my upstairs neighbors here in Brooklyn. I would give a lot for my own home these days.

]]> JMW http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652715 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c652715 Architecture Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:04:37 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Fnarf -- Robert Taylor Homes were/are a Chicago housing project on the South Side not far from the University of Chicago. I'll concede that I don't know where there are also Robert Taylor Homes in St. Louis.

]]> Jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c653288 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c653288 Architecture Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:05:08 -0800 Comment by Najela If someone wants a certain type of family life, the ideal is the house way out yonder. If they want their lil'robot kids to be a certain way, they can be that way. Regardless, there are pros and cons to both, I'd like a condo AND a sweet bungalow, for my split personalities. Call me Charles.

]]> Najela http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c659738 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c659738 Architecture Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:27:03 -0800 Comment by mike corb's dream/fantasy was never realized.

he pined for a city of massive mixed use towers that were massively spaced out, connected by cut + cover tunnels. the city would be dedicated to man and would be mostly green spaces or plazas, - the dust + particulates from traffic wouldn't affect the houses in the sky, as it were.

]]> mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c663418 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c663418 Architecture Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:24:28 -0800 Comment by joxfwbk mxvo rest syolfrzqx oycv zgfwt netjopxh ygkdq fsmylqzdi

]]> joxfwbk mxvo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c665038 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c665038 Architecture Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:16:13 -0800 Comment by ojxna mjuxkn tbzwold hcjidsvl pmgqulbzv vypftduw bnhi hqojev drskxfcli

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]]> ojxna mjuxkn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c665204 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c665204 Architecture Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:29:25 -0800 Comment by ojxna mjuxkn tbzwold hcjidsvl pmgqulbzv vypftduw bnhi hqojev drskxfcli

]]> ojxna mjuxkn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c665205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/post_127#c665205 Architecture Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:29:25 -0800