We’ve spent the last few weeks building an amazing city wall out of the polytopes we collected on our own island.It is, in our minds, a living and breathing monument to the strength of our civilization, but for all its beauty, it’s also an incredibly difficult and dangerous place.Our goal is to create a city […]
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Why Portugal walled itself off
The walls and barbed wire of Portugal’s capital are no longer visible from the city, but it remains a stark reminder of its long history of oppression.On the streets of Lisbon, you’ll find the remains of the colonial Portuguese Empire that dominated Portugal for nearly half a century.The city was the last colonial outpost of […]