Weekend 192.2
To make use of one’s time as one deems fit is one of man’s main objectives in life. At the office, at home, wherever, each person needs to keep track Continue Reading →
Month: July 2011
Weekend 192.1
(1) Trouble on the China Express (WSJ) In a blistering essay titled “The Derailed Country,” posted online this past week and then quickly removed by censors, Han Han, one of Continue Reading →
Weekend 192.0
A day in NYC… (1) 194X–9/11: American Architects and the City @ the MoMA (1a) The Life and Death of Buildings at the Princeton University Art Museum [FIELD TRIP] (2) Continue Reading →
Weekend 191.0
(1) Un’Introduzione al Disegno Italiano (2) China Train Crash Shows Fast Expansion Problems (3) Spending dispute halts airport construction (3a) Dulles Metro station should be functional and awe-inspiring (3b) Airports Continue Reading →
More from Aerotropolis…
…or red courtesy phone for Mr. Friedman. “The aerotropolis and authoritarians go hand in hand. The first is a city built from scratch to chase economies of speed; the second Continue Reading →
Seiko
(1) Mickey Mouse, A-L-O-N-E (WSJ) (2) Airlines Go Back to Boarding School to Move Fliers Onto Planes Faster (WSJ) (3) I saw El Pulpo last night at a Bridgeport Bluefish Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.1
Someone once asked Goethe what color he liked best. “I like rainbows,” he said. That’s what I love about architecture: If it’s good, it’s about every color in the spectrum Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.0
Absolutely gorgeous summer day in New England! (1) Bright Colors Struggle to Bloom in South Korea’s Silver-Car Nation (WSJ) (2) Adventure on the Rails (WSJ Magazine) (3) Custom Cycling’s Big Continue Reading →
Weekend 189.0 (July 4th)
(1) Tacita Dean Reflects on Time (WSJ) (2) Walt Disney and the Founding Mouse (3) The Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture: In our age of online view counts and retweets, Continue Reading →