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Péter Rákosi (Technika Schweiz)

Shop windows - an inventory, 2007-2010

Shop windows constitute the most visible layer of the urban signscape. Together with posters, advertisements and grafitti messages, they constantly update the city's visual environment: they discribe to the passer-by the current state of consumable objects. Created to animate the desire of shoppers, they are also talkative inventories of what a store has to comunicate. Crafted with humor or exhibitionism, some shop windows peel off from the store they represent and become self-referentional signs, mere decorations of the street.

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Eszter Steierhoffer & Levente Polyák

Anatomy of a Street: an introduction

Welcoming Cities 

The London Festival of Architecture’s theme, ‘Welcoming Cities’, is open to a variety of interpretations: of cities welcoming the Olympic Games, as well as cities welcoming initiatives, diversity and eventually conflict. The Anatomy of a Street project poses the question somewhat differently: what if large-scale cultural or sporting events affect cities in far more diverse ways than we expect?

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