Just a collection of my thoughts or links to other thoughts on architecture and design.

Monday, January 28, 2008

i like it when buildings fall down



Cool Video

High-Profile Building Flaws

Here is a great piece from NPR on High-Profile buildings like the MIT science building

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Ted Cullinan


Way cool architect i have never heard of.
Check out the Royal Gold Medal Winner.

prefab straw house

This is very cool! Check out this place.

bilbao


Seems this may not be architecture afterall

FLW in Florida


Florida Southern

UN Studio in NY


Villa NM by UN Studio

green chicago

Chicago is getting greener

First post - Sistine Chapel turns 500



Here is a link to a good article on the sistine chapel.

Friday, January 25, 2008

metropolis

Toni Negri discusses the significance of urban space for new forms of opposition with Constantin Petcou, Doina Petrescu, and Anne Querrien. The city, Negri says, is where the "political diagonal" intersects the "biopolitical diagram" – where people's relation to power is most pronounced. eurozine