Plans in Perspective | James Carrico | Substack

Views, which command great cultural and financial value, are a lot better when the damn guardrail isn’t in the way.

Jun 24

Our first guest author writes their take on John Portman’s Pan Pacific Hotel

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Jun 16

If you enjoy this and the article that follows, this Substack is for you!

May 20

Explanation, guidelines, and some first thoughts on this experiment

Jun 16

He was a rare and genuinely rebellious voice in a field increasingly teeming with ever more specialized consultants and highbrow academics.

Jun 10

Enclosing Singaporean public space part 3: covered streets

Jun 3

Enclosing Singaporean public space part 2: public housing elevators

May 21

Enclosing Singaporean public space part 1: sidewalks

May 13

Heatherwick’s “Hive” is a hoot, and inaugurates this monthly subseries of quick reads (1 minute read = ~200 words)

May 6

Fear not, I will explain what r/Place is.

Apr 29

Singaporean modernism realised something never fully embraced in urban-renewal-era America: that megastructures can provide treasured public space.

Apr 22

传统的火焰在新加坡燃烧着，与其科技为先、循规蹈矩、及规划至上的环境似乎背道而驰。这火花是否能保持不灭？

Apr 19

Plans in Perspective

Sharpen your observation of the built world around you. By an American architect.

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