Humanity has the hardware in hand to halt the rise in heat-trapping greenhouse gases it pumps into the atmosphere and forestall the worst effects of global warming projected for the end of this century. (frm CSM) View full entry
Take the concept of the speakeasy (si fang cai), the intimate eating places that have sprung up in people's homes and have become, for locals and those in the know, some of the best places to eat on the island. (frm NYT) View full entry
Mindless vandals or creative geniuses? Anushka Asthana traces the taggers' rise from the backstreets to the high street. (frm the Guardian) View full entry
Ellen S. Wilson reviews this book on the late art patron and heiress Peggy Guggenheim, who helped to shape the canon of 20th century art, but, says biographer Mary V. Dearborn, history has not given her her due. View full entry
NYTimes article on the Tallix foundry, one mile north of the Dia:Beacon where Zaha Hadid benches are cast and used over the years by dozens of artists, from the completely unknown to the hugely famous. View full entry
Soichiro Fukutake, an entrepreneur who has delved into his personal fortune to acquire works by David Hockney, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Claude Monet, is developing an unassuming museum of Western art on the island of Naoshima (he owns half of it). Among the pieces, a 2004 Walter de Maria... View full entry
For those of you planning on attending the CA Boom Design Festival in Santa Monica this week, Archinect is offering a 40% discount on admission (use code ARC1197 when registering online). Click here for more info. View full entry
Lawrence Lessig writes on the shady position of the President in relation to private interests and copyright law. (frm Wired) View full entry
The continued movement of capitalistic memorialization around the world has finally touched down in the Deep South. (frm NYT) View full entry
For those of you planning on attending the CA Boom Design Festival in Santa Monica this week, Archinect is offering a 40% discount on admission (use code ARC1197 when registering online). Click here for more info. View full entry
LA Downtown News' Sam Hall Kaplan explains how he managed the unimaginable. View full entry
An architecture tour along the Chicago River turned ugly as 120 passengers aboard a yacht were bombarded with human waste. From MSNBC The waste was released from a "large black coach bus," as it crossed the bridge at 430 W. Grand Av. and "kept on driving" around 1:20 p.m. Sunday, police News... View full entry
Tickle Salon is a robot installation based on the concept of automated caress formed through a digital mapping of the subjects body. As the process continues the caress becomes more tailored to the subjects body. (via ReBlog) View full entry
In light of the recent "cooling" of the Chinese economy and its effect on high profile architectural projects; it is important to look at China and its current development. 1 l 2 l 3 View full entry
Alfred Paquement, director of the Pompidou's National Museum of Modern Art, talks about this pioneering, famous institution. By Alexandros Philippidis for Kathimerini View full entry