Yet another piece on the Burj, this time
at the BBC - expect a lot of these in 2009. Not much new here, save this quote about the building's as-yet-unrevealed final height: '"If you put the
Empire State Building on top of the
Sears Tower then it's reasonable to say
you'll be in the neighbourhood," Mr
[William] Baker says.'
Dolores on the dotted line, a tumblr /
Things I Like Today, another tumblr /
Shape and Colour on
Advanced Beauty, collection of animations by people who are using computer graphics for pure, unadulterated aesthetic purposes, with no function in mind whatsoever: 'a lush, beautiful, sensory-engrossing work of experimental art... just because'. Gratifying in a way to find this kind of thing still exists - a bit like an extension of the original
demo scene.
From our earlier post that touched on
Penguin design team, was the
Ruthie Rogers featured back in 1972 the very same as the doyenne of new food and New Labour? (whose influence is mentioned briefly but memorably at the start of this
Tricia Guild profile by Jason Cowley).
This looks interesting:
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond /
Exit Magazine finally has a website /
The Flavor, visual source weblog / Paul Goldberger's
10 best buildings of 2008 simply underscores how relatively dry the year was for interesting architecture.
Core77 posts a preview of the
Berlin Museum of Letters /
Wandering sickness and the gas of peace, a visual essay by Derek Horton on geodesic domes and other futurist architectural devices at the online magazine
/seconds /
Robin Camille, a weblog /
AMC and Rambler stuff.
The very
worst special effects of all time, actually a bottomless pit of possibilities which are barely descended into here / proper outsider art:
I am the butterfly man / oh this is very good:
Let's look back on the year to come, David Mitchell on the ups and mostly downs of 2009.
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