Gypsychique, a tumblr (occasionally nsfw) / work by John Whitlock / the impending Cupcake Bubble, looking for some kind of Gladwellian hook in the relatively recent spike in production/consumption of small fancy cakes. The trend is definitely there, but 'The real problem, though, is that the cupcakes are essentially reactionary.... willfully uncomplex, familiar, and comforting' / Is this your luggage? (via).

Just What I See, iPhone street photography / you know, Vintage For Kids / all about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch / post-cube polychromatic wonderland, a lawyers' office by Hofman Dujardin Architects / architectural photography by Luke Hayes / Panorama, a new architecture newspaper / paper engineering by Mark Hiner / The Popular Edge, 'Pop-Up and Book Art News' / art by Catriona Finnie /

More office shenanigans. It's hard to imagine going from the Loblolly House to this, Kieran Timberlake's proposed US Embassy in London. More critiques: LA Times ('[the design] suggests putting an emphasis on action instead of values, measurable behavior rather than symbolic gestures') and The Guardian ('Cool, remote and superficially transparent, the winning design does reflect what we can divine of the US political process'). Apparently it was not to the liking of Lords Rogers and Palumbo

There is a lot to say, of this we are sure takes issue with the term 'design thinking' / damaged goods by Barnaby Barford / art by Victor Timofeev (blog): a beautiful set of drawings, reminiscent of very early Libeskind / SuperCity, an architectural model / Lunarized, a tumblr

Inside Tommy Westphall's mind, a graphic by Nicholas W Skyles. The kind of meme that would be non-existent - impossible, pointless, whatever - were it not for the internet / linked before but consistently fascinating, Very Small Array / cute paper houses / talking about ugly buildings, as Boston gets to grips with its frankly magnificent City Hall.

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