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Mini-Mansions Reclaimed as Wetlands

Mini-Mansions Reclaimed as Wetlands

Last month we wrote about the Reburbia competition that challenged architects and urban planners to appropriate the soon-to-be vacant ruins of suburban sprawl (aka big box stores and mini-mansions) for more efficient uses. The grand prize went to Calvin Chiu’s Frog’s Dream: McMansions Turned into Biofilter Water Treatment Plants. It’s a design that turns bloated mini-mansions into wetlands, providing an organic filtration system for a nearby city.
Chiu explains the project:
In response to the anticipated future, the Frog’s Dream project attempts to re-establish a sustainable relationship between city and suburbia. It proposes to transform the vacant McMansions, at the periphery of [...]

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Artists Reclaim Amsterdam’s Red Light District

Artists Reclaim Amsterdam's Red Light District

In a twist on the age-old practice of artists reclaiming unused and ex-industrial spaces to work in, the Red A.i.R. project is converting former brothels into studios. All this year, Artists-In-Residency In The Redlight are exploring the possibilities of transitory occupations of space within the slowly gentrifying red light district of Amsterdam.
Red Light Art Amsterdam
[via Luxist]

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