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https://www.europesays.com/dk/158344/ Team SLA to Design New 30-hectare Coastal Nature Park in Copenhagen, Denmark #Architecture #CoastalDesign #Copenhagen #Denmark #Landscape #LandscapeArchitecture #LandscapeDesign #NaturePark #Nordhavn #Park #PublicSpaces #SLA #UrbanDesign

Had a scan through the videos from the #PublicSpaces conference - this has been my subject for the last 30 years: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos

My takeaway is that there is a lot of activity, but not much movement. A lot of discussion, frameworks and technical thinking, but no real questions - What kind of #openweb culture are we actually building?

Too often we end up with the same cycle of
more complexity → more infrastructure → more maintenance → more dependency → more #techshit.

The problem is not that people are building things, building is good. The problem is when the culture keeps producing paths that push more mess into the commons, then the people build alternatives have to spend their energy cleaning up, mediating, and rebuilding the native social layer that was ignored.

The #OMN question is - Are we creating tools that strengthen communities, or are we creating more technical problems that communities have to carry?

The #openweb was never only about technology. It was about participation, trust, shared ownership and social infrastructure. Without that, we just keep producing more mess that someone has to compost later.

The work we need is growing the culture that makes better tech possible.

#OMN #4opens #openweb #FOSS #techshit

In the Blink of an Eye: 60 Light Installations Illuminate a Citywide Gallery for Noor Riyadh 2025

Limi…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Architecture #Art #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #creativity #Design #DesignFestival #Entertainment #Foster+Partners #Heritage #Innovation #Installations #light #LightInstallations #publicart #PublicSpaces #PublicTransit #Riyadh #SaudiArabia #SponsoredPost #Transformation #TransitInfrastructure #UK #UnitedKingdom #Vision2030 #zahahadid
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/318249/

Urban Geometry at Night

The brutalist architecture of Bishop Lucey Park seems to suit black and white night shots. This was only my first time trying to photograph it in such a way but I’ll try again.

#architecturalPhotography #atmosphericPhotography #bishopLuceyPark #blackAndWhite #blackAndWhitePhotography2 #brutalistArchitecture #cityParks #concreteStructures #contemporaryArchitecture #cork #fluorescentLighting #heritageSites #ireland #modernDesign #nightPhotography #nighttimeUrban #photo #photography #publicRealm #publicSpaces #streetPhotography #urbanGeometry #urbanRegeneration #urbanSpaces

Festive Commerce in Cork

Brown Thomas on Patrick Street, Cork, is all lit up again for Christmas. On Oliver Plunkett Street they’ve put up the usual decorations and they look fabulous!

#2025 #architecturalLighting #atmosphericLighting #brownThomas #christmas #christmasDecorations #christmasLights #cityCentre #commercialPhotography #communalCelebration #cork #decorativeLights #departmentStore #festiveAtmosphere #festiveDecoration #festiveLighting #festiveSeason #holidaySeason #holidayShopping #illuminatedFacades #ireland #irishCities #irishRetail #luxuryRetail #motionBlur #nightPhotography #oliverPlunkettStreet #patricksStreet #pedestrians #photo #photography #publicSpaces #retail #seasonalDecoration #shopping #shoppingStreet #sonyA7rv #storefront #streetLighting #streetPhotography #urbanChristmas #urbanRetail #windowDisplay

Time for the obligatory #paneldiscussion at the #PublicSpaces conference #Pubconf2025 with Paris Marx, Emma Ghariani, Zuzanna Warso and Michiel Leenaars.