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Trevor Blake: Architecture

07 December 2009 » In architecture, art, portland, trevorblake

Architecture. Portland, Oregon USA. 5 December 2009.

Trevor Blake: Should Religions Be Seen and Not Heard?

11 October 2009 » In 9/11, architecture, christianity, islam, music, theocracy, trevorblake

Worshippers quit church after council noise ban ‘takes away their ability to praise God’:

Members of a congregation in north London have abandoned their church – because of a council noise ban. The Immanuel International Christian Centre was ordered to keep its amplified music and sermons quieter after a neighbour complained. But the church’s pastor Dunni Odetoyinbo claimed Waltham Forest council had only told them to keep quiet so as not to offend the Muslim community. The church also argued the council had ‘taken away its ability to praise God’, and that congregation numbers had dwindled from 100 to 30 because of the restrictions. Baha Uddin, who lives near the church, had complained he was unable to use his garden at weekends and his one-year-old daughter was regularly disturbed by the noise from services. He said: ‘It’s been a nightmare. I’ve not been able to use my garden or living room on a Sunday because of the church services. The amplified music, drums and the loud sermons made having a conversation impossible. The noise made me depressed.’ But other neighbours say the noise is not a problem. The church lodged an appeal, and appeared at Waltham Forest magistrates’ court on Tuesday. In court Mrs Odetoyinbo, 55, claimed a council officer had asked her ‘to keep the noise down so as not to offend the Muslim community’. But magistrates rejected the appeal, and ordered the church to pay £2,250 costs.It can now only play music for 20 minutes on a Sunday between 11.30am and 11.50pm. A council spokesman said: ‘All attempts at mediation have failed and we regrettably were forced to issue the church with a noise abatement notice.’

Article continues at link. Previously at OVO, The Bells Bells Bells Bells Bells Bells Bells. When you’ve got an invisible monster that lives in the sky on your side, giving you special dispensations that are unquestionable and eternal, you might get it in your head that anything you do in the service of that invisible monster that lives in the sky is justified – nay, compulsory. That’s the sort of thinking that causes US Presidents to declare war [1] [2] [3] [4] and Saudi Arabian architects to hijack airplanes [1] [2] [3]. Perhaps compared to these evils, annoying a neighbor is a small thing. Perhaps it is an unfair comparison all around. But I will say that being a pest to your neighbor is not excused by superstition. And every time a place of religion drags the State into their affairs, both the freedom to worship and the ability to have a secular / pluralistic government suffer.

King Camp Gillette – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

27 July 2009 » In architecture

He published a book titled The Human Drift (1894), which advocated that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public, and that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls. A later book, World Corporation (1910), was a prospectus for a company set up to create this vision

King Camp Gillette – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Human Drift – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

27 July 2009 » In architecture

Gillette’s plan for an immense three-level metropolis (called “Metropolis”) on the site of Niagara Falls. Designed to accommodate a population of tens of millions of inhabitants, the mega-city would draw its electric power from the Falls. [circular houses on a hex road grid - 1894]

The Human Drift – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Architecture of Portland, Oregon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

17 July 2009 » In architecture, portland

Architecture of Portland, Oregon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Concrete Canvas

15 July 2009 » In architecture

Concrete Canvas have developed a ground breaking material technology called Concrete Cloth that allows concrete to be used in a completely new way. Concrete Cloth was originally developed for the award winning Concrete Canvas Shelters, a building in a bag that requires only water and air for construction.

Concrete Canvas