weekend of new things

starting from top left and reading like a book:

Sara, Nana and Læsse at the 100 year anniversary of women's suffrage street party / Kastrup Søbad by White Architects/ I got a tiny sunburn because it has been so gorgeous. / The Amager neighborhood Center by Dorte Mandrup / two darling ladies at the 100 year anniversary. Love the colors / Amagerstrand beach promenade/park by Hasløv & Kjærsgaard / this is how i am wearing my scarves right now / Ja! Confetti / even grandmas wear snazzy sneakers, here. you can't see these, but she has got new old school adidas kicks. yea!

cykelbro

beautiful cycle bridge (peds are welcome, too) from Islands Brygge and leading to mall with bike lanes and McDonalds. i just don't know what to believe anymore. not open sundays.
and then in picture two, if you look right in the center, across the water, there is an enormous pile of debris. i think they must have demo-d a building and that is the rubble waiting to be taken away. i don't know, but when i am out my bike around town, it's piles of trash like that, that really suck me in. i must be a crow.

one more thing about malmö!

so, the swedes have taken two things that are often viewed as unpleasant in american cities and made them nice.

1. one is this skatepark, Stappelbädsparken, where there are tons of pools, and bowls and other types of terrain to skate. then there is a huge concrete area with moveable ramps, bumps and all kinds of other skate-able things(shown here). all set next to an old warehouse with tons of old-world, old-skool character. that ramp in the distance seems like it used to have huge ships being constructed on it or something. it's killin me! it's rad. i wish i knew how to skateboard because i would really tear it up at Stappelädsparken.

2. and then the dumpster. darling. suddenly, a trash receptacle you want to hug.

instant urbanism

Thanks to Nancy Rottle for the tip on The Danish Architecture Center. It is an exhbition, lecture and gathering space all about design with an incredible book shop for a welcome mat. Wednesday nights are free admission so I hung late after work/school, grabbed a pastry at Lagekagehuset to get me through an evening of perusing the multi-media exhibition centered around temporary, largely installation-esque interventions in urban settings that show spontaneity, innovate and unconventional use of spaces and ultimately, promote interaction. The inspiration for the exhbition came from the texts of the The Situationist International movement. Here are few highlights:

Beukelsblauw
Permanent Breakfast
Parkour
Observatorium