"The British capital is never empty, and only major television events can clear the streets. So why do movies and science fiction teem with vacant blocks? Does urbanism have room for emptiness anymore?" A great essay by Jonathan Bell of things magazine. View full entry
Has a lost Roman port been found in India? The BBC investigates. View full entry
In his time, Boris Johnson has taken on politics, punditry and the footballing prowess of Germany. Now the MP for Henley-on-Thames has added British architecture to his gamut of grievances.the guardian View full entry
Xing Danwen's Urban Fictions is part Cindy Sherman and part Developer shlock. (disCONNEXION also recommended) View full entry
An Australian shopping mall plans to broadcast Barry Manilow songs over the loudspeakers in its parking lot to drive away teenagers with "souped-up cars with loud engines and pulsing music." Reuters This follows a successful experiment with Bing Crosby tunes several years before. View full entry
A South African real estate boom now reaches even into the shacks and shantytowns: NYTimes. View full entry
Hear Mona Lisa speak, and while at it, Leo has something to say too. View full entry
WED stands for World Environment Day, which was yesterday. Africa says; Help! Don't Desert Dry Lands (this year's theme). slideshow @ drylands. Also on BBC. View full entry
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a 27,000-year-old drawing of a face, which would make it the oldest in history. Guardian View full entry
Philip Glass arose at a time where music, in his opinion was at a crossroads of pop and a sort of avant-garde criticality. He saw music as something beyond just an act, but that it was something that should interact with an audience from a wider stream of society than the overly-intellectualized... View full entry
With photographs of cardboard and paper models this exhibition kicks start the architecture summer of the Serpentine Gallery in London. The photographs of empty spaces are somehow filled by a human presence (for me, a dark, perhaps evil presence), and with an obsessive amount of detail as in the... View full entry
Liberating books from their physical contexts could make it easier for them to blend into one another, a concept heralded by Kevin Kelly in an article in The New York Times Magazine last month. Once text is digital, books seep out of their bindings and weave themselves together, wrote Mr. Kelly... View full entry
Scientists have discovered a 300-mile crater that outsizes the crater thought to have wiped out Dinosaurs. It could be the cause of the great dying. | bbc View full entry
Not only will you be supporting Archinect editors F.David Boira and Zoë Coombes (Commonwealth), but you'll also get to experience an amazing art event combining the insanely talented graphic artist Michael C. Place (Build and former tDR partner) with the first showing of our equally talented... View full entry
A new book reflects on the destruction of cultural heritage (namely buildings: whether historic, symbolic or utilitarian) that accompany genocide and war. review | via View full entry