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The Burj Dubai and architecture's vacant stare
And so here is the Burj Dubai's real symbolic importance: It is mostly empty, and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Though most of its 900 apartments have been sold, virtually all were bought three years ago -- near the top of the ma
2010-01-08 to architecture, business, crisis, doomsday, dubai, society by bagoly
Bye-Bye, Dubai
Deserts have a way of reclaiming whatever is built upon them. In the case of Dubai, on the Persian Gulf, the global financial implosion has sent that process into overdrive. After six years of frenzied expansion, during which the emirate's population gre
2009-08-26 to arab, architecture, bestof, business, dubai, finance, money by bagoly
Alok Jha: Six Legs Good
They developed architecture and built farms millions of years before we did. They work together so seamlessly that colonies are known as 'superorganisms'. And they could hold the secret to working out how our brains evolved.
2009-03-17 to animals, ants, architecture, bestof, nature by soobrosa
Six legs good
They developed architecture and built farms millions of years before we did. They work together so seamlessly that colonies are known as 'superorganisms'. And they could hold the secret to working out how our brains evolved. Alok Jha investigates the ex
2009-03-13 to animals, ants, architecture, nature by bagoly
A Building-by-Building Survey of New York's Last Great Architecture Boom -- New York Magazine
As this last great building boom winds down, our architecture critic asks: Does the new see-through city look better or worse than the one it replaced? A building-by-building survey.
2008-09-15 to architecture, art, city, nyc by poppa_large
The Reality (Show) of "Architecture School"
This Wednesday, August 20, 2008, the Sundance Channel will premiere Architecture School. The docudrama follows twelve students enrolled in the Design/Build Program at Tulane University's School of Architecture as they build a sustainable, design-forward
2008-08-21 to architecture, ideas, movies by bagoly
Elizabeth Kolbert: Dymaxion Man
Fuller’s schemes often had the hallucinatory quality associated with science fiction (or mental hospitals).
2008-06-15 to architecture, bestof, design, story by soobrosa
Architectural Representations of the City in Science Fiction Cinema
As far back as 1926, many architects were said to have been impressed and influenced by Metropolis (1926). Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 (1968) also apparently became a source of inspiration for the world of architecture, with the director himself having sourced
2007-10-03 to architecture, movies by bagoly
Urban Abandonments
7 Deserted Wonders of the (Post)Modern World.
2007-09-10 to architecture, civilisation, society by soobrosa
Derinkuyu, or: the allure of the underground city
What would humans leave behind – and how long would those remnants last?
2007-08-29 to architecture, history, underground by soobrosa

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