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New York’s “greenest” skyscaper is actually its biggest energy hog: New Repubic 31 Jul 2013 | 07:56 pm
Must read: Bank of America’s Toxic Tower: New York’s “greenest” skyscaper is actually its biggest energy hog in New Republic. “According to data released by New York City last fall, the Bank of Ameri...
You know nothing of the crunch 29 Jul 2013 | 09:46 am
“I’ve seen your CV; there’s nothing on it… You’ve read all the books, but when it comes to the crunch, where are you?” “The crunch, how dare you speak to me of the crunch? You know nothing of the cr...
Ay, Marieke 19 Jul 2013 | 09:42 am
Ay Marieke Marieke je t’aimais tant Entre les tours de Bruges et Gand…
Parties 18 Jul 2013 | 02:35 am
Before the stock market crash, London in the 1920s. From Stephen Fry’s film Bright Young Things, based on Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, 1930 Oh Nina, what a lot of parties… Masked parties, Savage parti...
It’s Finally Ironic 18 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
Wouldn’t it be ironic to die of laughter when finally exposed to the potentially life-saving correction of a fatally unironic song… Some of the corrections are only barely ironic but let’s not quibble...
The Lightbulb Conspiracy, aka Pyramids of Waste, a documentary on planned obsolescence 17 Jul 2013 | 01:48 am
The practice of planned obsolescence of consumer products includes Apple computers, as you’ll see if you watch the whole film. As a designer who attempts to make things that last, both in their materi...
Easy To Be Hard 3 Jul 2013 | 03:31 am
Cheryl Barnes singing Easy to be Hard, probaby the best track from the film version of Hair. The song was written by Gerome Ragni, co-author of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. The musical...
Interior design and architecture in a world gentrifying at a surreal rate 20 Jun 2013 | 11:41 pm
First, in case you think that what follows is an exaggeration, take a quick look at these new articles. They’re only a small selection from a rising wave of articles on gentrification and the super ri...
NSA in Good Will Hunting 20 Jun 2013 | 03:10 am
Here’s Matt Damon’s character Will being interviewed by an NSA recruiter in Good Will Hunting, 1997. I’d forgotten about this genius bit of mouthing off until I saw the clip circulating this morning.
Give us back our public spaces 16 Jun 2013 | 10:51 am
This superb article on public space and cities by Will Hutton appeared in the Guardian on Sunday, June 16. I’ve reprinted it here in full. Hutton explains why cities are starting to look the way they...
