These diagrams of the Burj Dubai at Skyscraper Page gradually get larger and larger as it became apparent the building work was not yet over and yet more structure was being added. Check the official Burj website. Unofficial Dubai construction page, with recent construction images. A list of tallest buldings and structures in the world.

There needs to be a word for the thrill of doing a google search on an odd combination of words and getting less than 100 results. Like stumbling on a vast tract of virgin rainforest / celebrity lookalikes are now having to generate stories about their 'famous' doppelgangers in order to keep them both in the public eye, and therefore maintain their own careers.

Julien de Smedt's Project Mermaid versus Vincent Callebaut's Lilypad for Global Warming / Till deaf us do part, on Godflesh and God / things to look at, blogging print design old and new / Casas Minimalistas, pushing modernism for the masses / QBN, 'design industry news'.

The Dominion Part 1, a sound piece by The Shawn Institute, 'a composition that comprises of layered recordings taken from the internal foyer sections, of each of the Toronto Dominion Centre, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.' Part 2.

Philip Cristofor's Lost and Found produces digital artworks, including Surveillance Saver, 'a screensaver for OS X and Windows that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. A haunting live soap opera.' Download it here / Linda Peanberg's Sense and Sensibility project is one of several Jane Austen-themed visual projects by the designer / power boats of the 1970s.

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