This evening the 2007 MacArthur 'genius' Awards were announced. No architects or designer made the cut. However it is great to see Saul Griffith inventor, creator of the awesome Instructables and all round nice guy get the nod. the list View full entry
If you are sitting there and want to read up a fascinating story that directly relates to the music you listen these days, click this link and find out about Radio Caroline. Before British invasion, there were choppy seas. I am talking about the mother of pirate radio... View full entry
National Park(ing) Day , a series of public art projects nationwide to celebrate parks and promote the need for more parks in America's cities, is being celebrated today. For Park(ing) spots in LA go here, for NYC go here. Tell us about any others you know about... View full entry
The legendary image-maker talks about the Case Study Houses and the real roots of green design. My favorite quote - “In the fifties and sixties it was done automatically. The term green meant you related to the environment. That’s all green means: you are the environment.” From... View full entry
An alleged M.I.T. student charged with entering Logan Airport with fake bomb looking circuit board that said "Socket to me," on her chest when arrested. usadeadline View full entry
More than half of the world's 7,000 languages are expected to die out by the end of the century, often taking with them irreplaceable knowledge about the natural world.National Geographic View full entry
The new Whole Foods Market in San Francisco shows with meticulous precision why upscale grocery stores are coveted by communities that want to see themselves as fully rounded or on the map. In the process, it also shows the design gap between mainstream America's stylish retail environments and... View full entry
According to Peru's INDECI Chief, many of Pisco's citizens have informally begun to rebuild their houses and are not being supervised or following any type of safety regulations.Read.|Related (previously - from Worldchanging/Cameron) View full entry
“Ross’s new book, The Architecture of Authority, illustrates how the physical spaces of prison, the police station, confessional, and even school force us to negotiate with these institutions for our autonomy and, in some cases, our freedom.” TMN View full entry
They've been a fixture in the Loop for years -- a down-and-out man and his 12-year-old ailing pooch, Reba -- but the dog has vanished and the search is on for her. Story View full entry
The Weekend Explorer offers a brief history of the East Village, highlighting the parallel development of culture and real estate. NYT | Audio Walking Tour | related View full entry
Ikea Hackers are united by their perspective, which looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material: a clean palette yearning to be embellished or re-purposed. They make a subset of an expanding global D.I.Y. movement, itself a huge tent of... View full entry
The echoes of that horrific day have radiated outward in myriad directions, indelibly altering peoples’ concept of what it means to feel safe in the modern world. Investigations were undertaken into how something of such magnitude could have happened, and conspiracy theorists trotted out... View full entry
No, it's not Rem's new building: the New York Times reports today about "ever-closer ties" developing "among Wall Street, surveillance companies and the Chinese government’s security apparatus." Apparently "China’s surveillance sector and American capital markets" are more closely... View full entry
“In the middle of a busy afternoon, she sat down in the director's office at the Contemporary for a half-hour to talk about her unusual career, which she describes as a tripod: one leg each for art and architecture, with the third leg representing her memorials, which she calls... View full entry