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SLAB welcomes readers from Japan, who have arrived here via this posting on Japanese car website Carview. It looks a bit like a Toyota Auris fan-site. I ran the posting’s headline through Google’s Japanese translation tool, and this came out:
The german o lith poster you are lazy, “infectious disease of the city! Escape to the [...]
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Difficult to tell whether this is a prank, or a serious attempt to foil would-be bicycle thieves. Or even a failed theft attempt: just a few centimeters more and the bike would be free of its pole.
Germany’s Spiegel Online has a very interesting series of reports about the world’s most famous underground train networks. Entitled Mind the Gap, they have so far reported on Moscow, London, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, and most recently, Paris.
The articles explore this most ubiquitous form of urban architecture, its mythologies, its cultural signifiers, its sheer weight [...]
Just came by this very interesting posting by Geoff Manaugh for BLDG BLOG, concerning the state of architectural criticism.
On the pains of writing for important architectural magazines, he says:
“You want to talk about a videogame, or a Tim Burton film, or castles as described in the books of J.K. Rowling – but nope: it’s all [...]
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