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A selection of city models (via me-fi). Tom Vander...

Posted Thursday September 21, 2006, 12:24 pm, Over one day old
A selection of city models (via me-fi ). Tom Vanderbilt expands upon the Beijing model at Design Observer / Owen Hatherley on London Open House ( official website ). London Photos on the same event : back in model land again.

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The classic Grace Jones Citroen commercial, dire...

Posted Tuesday September 19, 2006, 12:24 pm, Over one day old
The classic Grace Jones Citroen commercial, directed by Jean-Paul Goude and featuring a giant Jones spitting out a CX. The car maker once prided itself on its artistic collaborations, including Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klein and Marc Riboud.

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Hunger for the corporeal, or how simple objects ...

Posted Monday September 18, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Kathryn Hughes argues that 'by making light work of sending images - copies, in effect - around the world, the internet actually increases the mystique and value of the original object, which can be viewed only in one place at one time.'

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The stark truth about polymer-saturated environm...

Posted Friday September 15, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Even more substantial pieces (try Fears and Kahn, for example) function so much better in the mind. Perhaps that's the same for architecture; the ephemerality of the open-plan, glass walled modern house (e.g. post -war Florida ), rarely survives into the present with any grace.

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ArchitectureChicago Plus, Lynn Becker's weblog abo...

Posted Thursday September 14, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
The night-time photography of Thomas Weinberger (via The Cartoonist ) / the art of Formula 1 is currently running at London's Design Museum (new website, thankfully). Actually, it's called Formula One (TM) The Great Design Race, but that sounds far too pretentious).

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Revisited, Pathetic Motorways, delving into thos...

Posted Wednesday September 13, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Revisited, Pathetic Motorways, delving into those little slips in the British motorway network that don't really deserve the title. Aficionados of tarmac in all its forms can visit Chris's British Road Directory, which has a database, some histories and a selection of bad junctions.

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Old houses, secret rooms and converted missile s...

Posted Tuesday September 12, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
There must be millions of square feet of silos dotted around the world, encouraging fascination and even speculation; a company calling itself 20th Century Castles has registered MissileBases.com, and claims to have sold 27 remnants of the Cold War Era to happy homeowners.

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Enter the VirtuSphere for completely immersive p...

Posted Friday September 8, 2006, 9:16 am, Over one day old
The latter has obvious real world applications, and not just for entertainment (arguably the Gorillaz live experience is an example of AR): imagine overlaying information on your immediate surroundings onto your spectacles, for example.

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The New Yorker delves into the background of Mas...

Posted Thursday September 7, 2006, 9:17 am, Over one day old
Arguably, the internet is our new mode of Mass Observation, thanks to sites like Grocery Lists, or the many overheard sites: in the office, Law School, in New York, Dublin, London, the UK, or Athens (Georgia), etc, etc ). Our mp3 collection is out of control.

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After yesterday's mention of 20 Sites n Years we...

Posted Tuesday September 5, 2006, 9:16 am, Over one day old
The css is currently a bit wonky, and there's still no 2006 set to compare it to but with a bit of luck we'll get around to it in the next fortnight or so. Foster and Partners ' extraordinary new Pyramid of Peace in Kazakhstan is given the Hugh Pearman treatment.

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