But it isn't all about the American football - many see the occasion as an opportunity to sweep away the image of a derelict, crime-ridden city in terminal decline. BBC View full entry
New York City police, under surveillance for rallying on behalf of the New York City police, are now suing... the New York City police for surveilling them: New York Times. View full entry
Do we destroy buildings to destroy whole cultures? Is war at least partly an architectural practice? Read more at Building Design.Destruction as cultural cleansing • Reviewed 3 February 2006 by Abe HayeemA new book examines how attackers use the tactical eradication of... View full entry
In 1831, a young Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville toured the young United States, peered into its boisterous character, and wrote "Democracy in America," the classic early yardstick of the country's self-understanding. In 2003 -- on the far side of Franco-American meltdown and "cheese-eating... View full entry
BLDGBLOG is Gridskipper readers' choice for "World's Best Architecture Blog" and we don't dispute it. Hell, that's why we asked Geoff Manaugh to throw some stuff up here. Read an interview with Geoff, and don't miss the one with Regine of WM$NA. View full entry
A space where science meets culture, phylotaxis represents an ever-changing zeitgeist of science news in our world, populated automatically every few hours by a computer program that scours a slew of online news sources and blogs that focus on science and culture. View full entry
"And, what we have here is, uh, very humid conditions for the nighttime hours, uh, temperatures only dipping back into the mid-sixties. Uh, it has been, uh, quiet on the radar, uh, we did have quite a bit of rain north of the city all day long, and the rain is now starting to show up, uh, to our... View full entry
ABCNews.com and AOL.com/news want you to give your own State of the Union address! . Videotape your own speech, using a digital camera or a cell phone, and submit it to ABC News using the form below. To be considered, recordings must be five minutes or less. Please state your name and hometown at... View full entry
Privacy? HAH! The ENTIRE Enron Email Corpus has been released to the public. Here's what came up for architect. You can find the jokes, forwards, and porn yourself. Wired View full entry
I know this subject has been on the news everywhere but the dangers are very real. Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases may have more serious impacts than previously believed, a major scientific report has said.BBC and previously bad news bears View full entry
Bono and his glasses in an interview for german 'Spiegel' magazine. 'We Cannot Leave the People in their Hour of Need' U2 lead singer Bono, 45, discusses African despots, the lack of progress in sub-Saharan Africa and the appropriate standards for development aid. In isolating corrupt... View full entry
The CIA's failed Jan. 13 attempt to assassinate Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman Zawahiri in Pakistan was the latest strike in the "targeted killing" program, a highly classified initiative that officials say has broadened as the network splintered and fled Afghanistan. LAT View full entry
In his new work, Roxy Paine mirrors natural processes themselves, drawing increasingly on the tension between the organic and the built environment, between the human desire for order and nature's drive to reproduce. james cohan gallery Also check the events gallery. On until 02.25.06 View full entry
Initial reports suggest that six coaches derailed and plunged 15-30m down in a Pakistani train derailment. Up to 400 passengers in the train, number of casualties 3, so far. More than 130 people were killed near the southern town of Ghotki last July, in Pakistan's worst train disaster in at least... View full entry
'It was supposed to eradicate grumpiness from Germany. Instead, the "Du Bist Deutschland" ad campaign flopped -- and the campaign's leaders became the global blogosphere's favorite whipping boy.'link View full entry