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Stacking at the Vatican

In architecture, photography on 18 January 2007 with 1 comment

While browsing the news, today’s shot from “daily dose of imagery” really caught my eye:

Check out a higher resolution one here.

City of Sound

In architecture, audio, film, music, video on 2 January 2007 with no comments

I’ve recently stumbled on the great City of Sound blog.  Well-written and researched, the site covers architecture, cities, design, music, media, etc…  An interesting take on youtube from the 2006 year-in-review post:
But in terms of visual accompaniment to music, this was really the year when we all figured YouTube is not actually about user-generated content […]

Moscow Skyline

In architecture, development on 28 September 2006 with 1 comment

Slideshow
 
A slew of new structures—including Europe’s tallest building—are sprouting up around the Kremlin to form a modern backdrop in Russia’s capital
from digg.com

Minituarized urban areas

In architecture on 21 September 2006 with no comments

Cities to scale (a gallery)

Metros worldwide

In architecture, design, visualization on 9 September 2006 with no comments

The NYT on The Great Subway Map War:
Nonetheless, Mr. Vignelli offered a parting thought. “Look what these barbarians have done,” he said as he examined his copy of the current map. “All these curves, all this whispering-in-the-ear of balloons. It’s half-naturalist and half-abstract. It’s a mongrel.”
Blow an hour or so browsing this comprehensive collection of […]

Abandoned Pods

In architecture on 1 September 2006 with no comments

San Zhi city:
The area is called San Zhi. There are no named architects since the whole site was commissioned by the government and several local firms. They were trying to create a posh luxurious vacation spot for the affluent and rich streaming out of Taipei. Now this is where things get weird. The local papers […]

Cooling

In architecture on 1 September 2006 with no comments

Michael Kenna photographs the towers of the Ratcliffe cooling station in Nottinghamshire, England.
from BLDGBLOG

Subway design worldwide

In architecture, art, design on 19 August 2006 with no comments

Metroart - an overview of about 40 metro systems across the globe

Courtesy of digg

“Full-frontal objectification of the library”

In architecture, photography on 16 August 2006 with 1 comment

An amazing collection of library photos by Candida Höfer.

From the nonist
Don’t forget to check out the wikipedia article on libraries.

Don’t miss the British Museum Reading Room seen above.

Wikipedia roundup

In architecture, culture, science, wikipedia on 18 June 2006 with no comments

Some interesting, late night Sunday reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_metro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory