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The Sky is Not Blue, by Robert van Overveld.The Sky is Not Blue. Words. Robert van Overveld. If you would tell an ancient Greek that you have a blue iPhone, he would probably not understand you. Why? Because the word blue didn’t even exist, nor did the iPhone.…View →
Bnieuws edition 54/05. Published May 2021.In west-african cultures people used the colour blue during death and bereavement ceremonies, which is why slaves who worked on the Southern plantations sang about "the blues" in their songs.…View →
The Orange Hall, by Followers @BNIEUWS, Inez Margaux Van Oeveren.@shaileeo, Royal blue @iris_lpr, Black! @pietertilman, Light blue with dark green @floortje.fauna, Golden @f_ruiz_c, A very light shade of green.…View →
Cover - Why Yellow?, by Jack Oliver Petch.On the other hand, when I ask my Dutch friends what an ‘official’ colour is - they say ‘Blue’.…View →
A Lack of Exposure, by Alessandro Rognoni.Then, pointing at a painted door frame: “That grey is too blue, it’s not a Paris grey”. When asked why he says: “I don't know.”. Later, I found myself inexperienced in thinking of cities in terms of colour.…View →
Thank you for smoking, by Christopher Clarkson.A month ago, our beautiful building started becoming defaced with some slightly less beautiful TU Delft blue ‘no smoking signs’. Alas … they haven’t appeared to be as effective as whoever is responsible probably would have liked.…View →
The Morning Sun, by Carmen Wientjes.How the night has disappeared in the rise of the morning, how the. darkness and stars have transformed into the brightest blue sky, how the. sun rays are already disappearing since turning a corner. Constant change in the constance.…View →
On renders, by Jonas Althuis.So here are my concerns: why are most of the renders we see always in sunny weather, with skies bright and blue; colours saturated? Why are there palm trees shown in a cold climate and exotic jungle flowers in barren urban squares?…View →
Blog: May 12, 2021Each article explores a colour in a unique way; from the red and yellow hues that bricks can have, to the light blue tint of architectural photography and the effect that it creates, to the humble domain of the toilet and the design implications thereof…View →
The Flawed Notion of a Separate Here and There, by Matt Roberts.Formerly coastal areas tend to vote Democrat (blue) and areas which during the Cretaceous were either further inland or further out to sea trend Republican (red).…View →
Could You Hold The Door Please?, by Sem Verwey.Some of them are white, while others are red, blue or green. It is uncertain if the six red flags are still here. Neither can the presence of the river and the birds be assured.…View →
Thoughts on Green, by Valentin Zech.It sits right in between the cold, short-waved blue and the hot, long-waved red light. The Islam connects this balanced quality of green to one of its most fundamental teachings: to live in moderation, in balanced, far from extremes.…View →
What if normal is dead?, by Chun Kit "CK" Wong.The open plan concept that hosted a multitude of workers divided by class (blue collared vs. white collared), whilst being overseen by managers were designed primarily to increase work efficiency. This was further popularised by Frederick Taylor.…View →
The Berlage questionnaire: Emanuel Christ of Christ & Gantenbein, by Ana Herreros and Jin Chang.At some point in my childhood, I decided blue. The last book you read. Hotel Florida, about the Spanish civil war and the artists and journalists who met in a hotel in Madrid during this period, such as Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn.…View →
No Bombing, No Heavy Petting, Just Stay in Your Lanes, by Sam Eadington.The vivid blue of the pool is important and it seems to directly contrast with the greyness and mundanity of the day to day life many are trying to escape.…View →
Abandoned Lounge, by Christopher Clarkson.Seeing only on occasion their own shadows moving with the sun they listen to an excitable prospective student spotting Rietveld’s Red and Blue Chair without taking the time to acknowledge the existence of the other chairs.…View →
P-618, by Lucie Castillo-Ros.Who has not heard a ‘let’s make the interior calmer by adding blue tones’, or ‘this building will be busy and social, it should be of a bright colour like red or orange’?…View →
Space syntax as urban design tool, by Jack Pilkington.As typical with most models in space syntax, red represents a highly connected street and blue a relatively unconnected street. After the wall is built, separating east and west, many roads lose their connecting function entirely.…View →
Interview: Michael van der Tas, by Michael van der Tas, Aimee Baars, Robert van Overveld.I manage the facility services team, the people with the blue vests and the TU logo on their upper arm. In general, we make sure that everything functions at the faculty. Part of it is managing the entrance systems.…View →
Ark[s], by Aikaterina Myserli.The ship chosen as case study is Blue Star 1, a Greek passenger ship which has already been used several times since 2015 for transporting refugees from the islands of Mytilene and Kos to Athens.…View →
The American Dream is hyper-real in Florida!, by Tuyen Le.The collision between virtual and reality happened when Truman saw a stage light fall from the blue sky.…View →
Xiao talks tech, by Federico Ruiz.We are meeting at night, sitting at the dining table where many bottles, some empty, some full, stand next to a bright-blue pack of Nanjing cigarettes. A red dragon printed on the box shines under the dim light of a lamp.…View →
Writing Urban Places, by Nicole van Roij.The interest in narratives did not come out of the blue. For instance, the interest in narratives, by architects such as Bernard Tschumi in 1970's, can be seen as a reaction to the tabula rasa attitude introduced by modernism.…View →