Yet oddly, by freezing the gerontocracy in place, he has made his new regime look impermanent.
('The factories that had been built looked temporary and insubstantial, as if they could be removed overnight,' Hines wrote. 'Even their names seemed impermanent: Styro, Eno Fabrication, PI Products.') Looks and Smiles seemed to evoke a nostalgia for old industrial communities even as The Price of Coal clearly rues the associated hardships.
The building, which was named the best housing complex at the 2011 World Architecture Festival, feels exuberant, and takes the risk of looking improvised, even impermanent.
Unlike the privately owned Zuccotti Park in New York that offers a feeling of quasi-permanence to the Occupy Wall Street encampment, Occupy Chicago looks and feels impermanent.
I now see how impermanent the landscape can be.
I've looked up Buddhism on Wikipedia, I know all compounded things are impermanent and that all emotions are pain.
Homo sapiens is conspicuous by its absence – there are no human beings visible – or rather by the stunningly fragile, impermanent and weirdly irrelevant constructs which, without their human use, look like mysterious, surreal sculptures or giant machinery left here by aliens.
'IMPERMANENT COLLECTION' Going to look at art in a museum usually produces immediate impressions: "I hate it," "I love it," "I don't get it".
The real town was ruder, dustier and more impermanent-looking.
The new technology saves time and money but also makes the impermanent seem even more disposable.
Everything is impermanent in this world, these photographs seem to be saying, returning eventually to nature.
