hooboy. lots to look at here!

WTF? That's a Green & Greene?

"Before we go any farther, isn’t that house adorable? Keep your reaction in mind, because I’ll shortly be asking you to honour it." fascinating story...cute house, too. I hope it doesn't get torn down!

"While watching Die Hard the other night—one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called "Lethal Theory" by Eyal Weizman—itself easily one of the best and most consequential architecture texts of the past decade"

mostly old mining towns and places ruined by war, but also 2 italian towns abandoned after earthquakes, and a city in the chernobyl zone. (C sez it was in one of his video games!)

nifty art project!

pretty.

Pierce College started in an old grocery store; the old movie theater in Lacey is now a mega-church, and the downtown Safeway is being torn down for a new city hall. (I like the Peddler's Mall concept.)

strikes me as sad somehow.

cool!

Navy Federal Credit Union's call center(s) -- green design helped drop turnover from 60% to 17%. Whoa.

"His mission was to photograph each of the nation’s 50 state capitol buildings and dispatch a postcard from each city, using postage stamps from a childhood collection." - a beautiful idea, almost ruined by "the war on the unexpected" (bruce schnier's p

I once had a cube that had a wooden column in the center of the entrance, was next to the main printer, and got no natural light. (You could see it passing overhead in the summer.) If I had a nickel for every joke about the column...well, I probably woul

alas, unsurprising to me. I spent 6 years working in a concrete bunker, and the building I'm in now had to have film put over the windows, when what it really needed was to have been designed with awnings.