'I stopped feeling hunger a long time ago. The sun charges me with energy as if I were a battery. Some day everybody will be capable of running on solar energy. The trees and flower exist because of photosynthesis.' pravda View full entry
Dubai company Emaar makes inroads into US market with $1.05b acquisition... Dubai: Emaar Properties is to acquire the second largest US private developer, John Laing Homes, for Dh3.85 billion ($1.05 billion) in cash, marking its foray into the United States. Gulf News It's been said that Dubai is... View full entry
The USS Oriskany CV-34 carrier was sunk by the navy in the Gulf of Mexico, so that it may encourage reef development. There is a Flickr Photo set of the sinking and some diagrams here. View full entry
"I kept reading about environmental issues and seeing buildings go up and dumpsters being filled with junk ”” and part of it might have been a little bit of guilt that we were building a second home," said Ms. Bailey, 36. "So I said, O.K., if we're going to do this, we have to do it... View full entry
When poet Jane makes architectural comparisons... View full entry
Speaking of urban transit, German artist Martin Kippenberger once proposed a subway system that would connect everywhere in the world to everywhere else in the world. He even built a few "stations" - doors in the earth leading nowhere. View full entry
The Village Voice, the legendary half-century-old alternative New York weekly known for its muckraking spirit and vibrant arts commentary, has a new editor in chief, Erik Wemple, editor of Washington City Paper. NYT View full entry
In case you haven't yet read our latest feature... I interviewed Danny Forster, the new host of the popular television series Extreme Engineering (and GSD student). If you have cable make sure to watch the season premiere tonight at 10pm on the Discovery Channel. View full entry
Americans are increasingly recognizing that the effects of carbon emissions on global warming are a serious problem, but there are no rules in the United States regulating heat-trapping gases comparable to those that most other developed countries have adopted under the Kyoto Protocol. Some... View full entry
Warm Pacific waters, pale-sand beaches, sun, locals...timeshare community with the local Fijians? Two 26-year-old British entrepreneurs, Ben Keene (a.k.a. Chief Bengazi) and Mark James (a.k.a. Chief Marika), are seeking 5,000 people to join Tribewanted.com, a sort of tribal timeshare with a... View full entry
Hidden amongst a maple forest 2 musicians build their dream home. Homeowner notes he had 'a great architect.' View full entry
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake that shook the area around the ancient royal city of Yogyakarta on Saturday killed more than 2,700. Read | CNN View full entry
Welcome to "the world's most violent theme park. This is the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, deep in the backwoods of Louisiana - a 100,000-acre US Army training facility that simulates the Middle East in minute detail and on a massive scale." Wired View full entry
Richard Serra is showing. A lot. But his sculptures are of such mammoth scale that moving them is an "art in itself." View full entry
Architect Claire Price talks about the field of energy harvesting and looking at ways to tap into the energy available from the workings of the human body or transport vibrations. Originally a DARPA-inspired area of research, imagine "34,000 commuters who pass through Victoria underground station... View full entry