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“ Thus, hostile urbanists or militias always conduct the battle towards the inside, or the domain of obstacles, the urban canyon. When it comes to urbanized war, every combatant must think like an obstacle –‘See everything from the perspective of an obstacle’. West then uses Parkour as the exemplary discipline in which the practitioner becomes as one with the obstacle during movement. Every soldier should be a traceur, a swerving projectile which has a deep sympathy with its physical obstacle .” Negarestani Reza. CYCLONOPEDIA. Complicity with anonymous materials. Melbourne: Re-Press 2008 We already wrote a bit about Parkour on boiteaoutils (link 1 and 2 ) and our fascination for this practice of architecture which attempts to consider every surfaces as a potential ground for the body. In his great Cyclonopedia (already evoked in a previous article ), the Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani evokes urban combat as the new paradigm of war in the Middle East. He establishes a material...

Hiding in Triangle is a Diploma project by Philip Modest Schambelan and Anton Fromm for their last year in the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany). It introduces a mountain bike hotel hanging on a cliff over the Lake Garda (Italy). Its structure and its bike paths compose a very interesting three dimensional maze between the earth and the rooms. Here is Philip and Anton's introduction text: The new mountain bike hotel on the edge of Pregasina in Italy offers sports enthusiasts a unique place to stay, an unforgettable view and a fast connection to an impressive variety of routes, trails and single tracks. Pregasina is located on a plateau 500 meters above the northern tip of Lake Garda. A hill is a line-of-sight obstruction to an extensive view of the Alps. To totally exploit the panoramic view the new hotel is situated on a steep mountain ridge on the southeastern edge of the small town. This on the one hand dissociates the new building of the traditional architectur...

The Snowtunnel allows people to use their snowboard all year long... This project is still at an prototyping state and waiting for investments but can be probably imagined as a generic object findable within cities...

Do you remember this scene in John Carpenter's self parody, Escape from L.A. where Kurt Russel aka Snake Blitzken's self parody is surfing an earthquake wave in an urban canyon ? Well, those pictures below (related to an article in The Cool Hunter ) shows guys surfing in a Munich urban park (outside Die Haus der Kunst Museum) where a little canal provides interesting waves. And it obviously make me think of this amazing video (the whole debate is about whether it's fake or not which I don't care at all) that you can watch below... The incongruity of this activity in an urban environment makes it being difficult to control which is one of the interesting aspect here...

Here is a impressive video of Alain Kohl and Orlando Duque diving from the top level of Strépy-Thieu boat lift into a pool 25m lower (being a lift it can be adjusted). The appropriation of a background which has nothing to do with the activity proposed here makes the whole beauty of the scene.

Following you will see a commercial that have been done for a well know soda company, (it's not coca-cola!). This short 3D animation shows the ride of a race car on the Singapore Grand Prix street circuit. It's a really interesting vision of the city , turning around the pilote and the car along the lap. enjoy! see also this past article

Following you will see a commercial that have been done for a well know soda company, (it's not coca-cola!). This short 3D animation shows the ride of a race car on the Singapore Grand Prix street circuit. It's a really interesting vision of the city , turning around the pilote and the car along the lap. enjoy! see also this past article

Here is an amazing article published by Pruned about 1954's Chicago stadium's ski jumping ramp installation...

Here is an amazing article published by Pruned about 1954's Chicago stadium's ski jumping ramp installation...

Stade de France was built in 1998 (for the World Cup) in Saint Denis, and designed by Michel Macary, Aymeric Zubléna, Michel Regembal & Claude Constantini. Football (yesterday France-Tunisia 3-1) & rugby matches are the most current events but atlethics and concerts are also happening there.

Stade de France was built in 1998 (for the World Cup) in Saint Denis, and designed by Michel Macary, Aymeric Zubléna, Michel Regembal & Claude Constantini. Football (yesterday France-Tunisia 3-1) & rugby matches are the most current events but atlethics and concerts are also happening there.

Today's Singapore first Grand Prix organised in night time and within the city like in Monaco. I'm just a bit disapointed cause I thought Formula 1 would have lights like in Le Mans but apparently not...

Today's Singapore first Grand Prix organised in night time and within the city like in Monaco. I'm just a bit disapointed cause I thought Formula 1 would have lights like in Le Mans but apparently not...

Is it sustainable to ride a bike to go to work? for sure, but maybe you can go over that and ride a wooden bike to go to work, there's no limit for a tree hugging hippie ! I heard about wooden bicycles, then I made a small research... and the result is way better than what I was imaginating! check this out! ! gota bikes (brazil) woodbike.com DIY bike (maybe the best one!) some more... more stuff about this subject: wheel fanatik designboom RIDE OR DIE !

Is it sustainable to ride a bike to go to work? for sure, but maybe you can go over that and ride a wooden bike to go to work, there's no limit for a tree hugging hippie ! I heard about wooden bicycles, then I made a small research... and the result is way better than what I was imaginating! check this out! ! gota bikes (brazil) woodbike.com DIY bike (maybe the best one!) some more... more stuff about this subject: wheel fanatik designboom RIDE OR DIE !

New evolution towards cyborg !