Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from around the world. This week we bring you a video love letter to Toronto’s modernist architecture of the 1960s, a London architecture student’s vision for a farmhouse tower, a Vancouver couple struggling to keep their front yard garden, a global review of pop-up urban spaces, and David Byrne blowing up the world in New York.
- Catrina Stewart – The London Farmhouse Tower
- Inspired by the imaginative quality found in comic books, an architecture student from London takes creativity to new heights in the design of her London Farmhouse Tower. (via Blah City)
- Toronto’s Modernist Architecture: A Love Letter
- Modernist architecture is often criticized for being cold and unfriendly, but this video showcasing Toronto’s plethora of modernist creations is anything but. (via Atlantic Cities)
- East Vancouver Tenants Challenge Explicit Orders to Remove Their Garden
- In a city attempting to obtain the status of the world’s greenest city by the 2020, it might come as a surprise that a Vancouver couple have been ordered to tear out their garden and return it to a manicured lawn. (via The Georgia Straight)
- Temporary Is the New Permanent
- Pop-up urban spaces have been, well, popping up all over the world. Here’s a run-down of recent experiments in temporary urban places. (via Atlantic Cities)
- Global Inflation
- David Byrne is blowing up the world. Literally. The musician and artist, has installed a giant inflatable globe underneath New York’s High Line. The exhibition is called Tight Spot and runs for two weeks. (via New York)
photo of Toronto’s modernist City Hall and surroundings by Francisco Diez from Flickr (cc)
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