Buy a Complex of Submarine Pits

• December 24, 2014,
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Buy a Complex of Submarine Pits

Back to opportunities in real estate: if you were tempted by the Minneapolis skyway but you’re saving your money for something a bit warmer throughout the year, consider snapping up the “Submarine Pits on Boca Chica Key.” As Sotheby’s describes the carved landscape of submarine

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Infrastructure as Professional Space

• December 24, 2014,
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Infrastructure as Professional Space

I just spent the bulk of the day out on a tour of the Global Containers Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey, courtesy of the New York Infrastructure Observatory. That’s a new branch of the institution previously known as the Bay Area Infrastructure Observatory, who hosted

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life & to be happy. It’s all that matters. AUDREY HEPBURN

The London-based ScanLab Projects, featured here many times before, have completed a new commission, this time from the British Postal Museum & Archive, to document the so-called “Mail Rail,” a network of underground tunnels that opened back in 1927. As Subterranea Britannica explains, the tunnels

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An Artful Rearrangement of Darkness

• December 24, 2014,
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An Artful Rearrangement of Darkness

A post yesterday over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun described a new game called “Kieru,” in which monochromatic ninjas lost in a monochromatic landscape alternately blend in with and radically stand out from their architectural surroundings. As Rock, Paper, Shotgun explains, the design of the game

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The Town That Creep Built

• December 24, 2014,
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The Town That Creep Built

South of San Francisco, a whole town is being deformed by plate tectonics. These are the slow but relentless landscape effects known as “fault creep.” The signs that something’s not right aren’t immediately obvious, but, once you see them, they’re hard to tune out. Curbs

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Everything is Architecture

• December 24, 2014,
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Everything is Architecture

A Washington state legislator has channeled his inner Hans Hollein, proposing the radical adaptive urban reuse of discarded military equipment: turning old aircraft carriers into a new toll bridge for Seattle. From gCaptain: A Washington state lawmaker looking to ease traffic congestion for several Puget

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Terrestrial Sonar

• December 24, 2014,
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Terrestrial Sonar

I found this thing in my desk again last night, and, as you can tell from the date in the image, below, it’s been following me around since 1998 (!). However, after seventeen years of carrying random clippings like this around in files, folders, drawers,

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Architecture is art

• December 24, 2014,
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Architecture is art

Many people, especially young students looking at becoming architects and enrolling in an architecture school, often wonder if architecture is an art form. Can they call themselves artists, without too much pretension? A large number of architects will probably agree that those who create or

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