[Image: Prisons for sale; photo by Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times]. The State of New York is hoping to sell its old prisons. "One property, in the Hudson Valley, includes a 16-car garage...
[Image: "Zero-Gravity Design" at the Domus Academy in Milan]. Given all the justifiable excitement in the past few days about the successful launch of SpaceX, Milans Domus Academy is hosting ...
[Image: Art by Joe Alterio]. New Yorkers, stop by Studio-X NYC tonight, Wednesday, May 23rd, at 7pm for free drinks and the launch of Man-Made Lands, "a collection of seven stories and five real ...
Two design competitions that might catch your eyes and ears: 1) Legendary L.A. radio station KCRW is looking for a mobile sound booth: a "space where conversation can happen amidst the urban chao...
Hidden in an article about New York Citys first million-dollar parking space is the somewhat incredible fact that, up in the apartment building this parking space will be attached to, "the shower...
Design writer Alissa Walker recently took a tour of L.A.s original subway system, one whose tunnels are no longer in operation, though they remain down there— [Image: L.A.s original subway, now walle...
Theres a lot going on again this week at Studio-X NYC. Two quick things to put on your radar, in case youre near New York: [Image: NASA astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild measures solar radiation, via NA...
I finally became a paying member of Subterranea Britannica this week, a website and historical organization whose interests (and influence) cast a long shadow over this blogs early years. Joining is ...
[Image: Michael Maltzans Inner City Arts building, Los Angeles; photo by Iwan Baan]. Ill be speaking tonight, May 17th, at Van Alen Books with architect Michael Maltzan about his book No More Play: C...
[Images: From ZATO: Secret Soviet Cities during the Cold War at Columbias Harriman Institute; right three photographs by Richard Pare]. Speaking of Van Alen Books: earlier this week, they hosted a pa...
[Image: Wifi-blocking wallpaper from the Grenoble Institute of Technology]. 1) A collaboration between the Grenoble Institute of Technology and the Centre Technique du Papier has produced wifi-blocki...
[Image: A map of fictional mega cities, via 2000AD]. A short review in the most recent Wire discusses a new album by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury: a speculative urban soundtrack to Mega City One, a...
[Image: Sunfish Pond]. Something Ive long meant to post about—and isnt news at all—is the fact that there is a lost lake in the basement of the Empire State Building. Or a pond, more accurately speak...
[Image: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; courtesy of the USGS]. In Charles Fishmans compelling exploration of water on Earth, The Big Thirst, there is a shocking state...
[Image: Image via Karst Worlds]. An ice cave in Austria was recently used as a test landscape for experimental spacesuits and instrumentation systems—including 3D cameras—that might someday be used b...
[Image: Poster design by Atley Kasky of Outpost]. Although I hope to post again about the specific topics to be discussed at this event, I didnt want to lose any more time in announcing the Breaking ...
[Image: Temporary islands emerge from the sea, via]. In the Mediterranean Sea southwest of Sicily, an island comes and goes. Called, alternately and among other names, depending on whose territorial ...
More than 10 million square kilometers of landscape on the surface of Mars, a region nearly the size of Europe, is made of glass—specifically volcanic glass, "a shiny substance similar to obsidia...
[Image: Flow]. A floating tidemill on the UKs River Tyne has been filled with "electro-acoustic musical machinery," powered by the river itself. The building, a collaboration between Owl Proj...
[Image: Piece of Nature Preserved (1973) by Haus-Rucker-Co; photo by Hagen Stier, courtesy of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum]. A forthcoming exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfur...
[Image: Via English Russia]. In a story seemingly invented for future landscape architecture thesis projects, we find the city of Berezniki, Russia. "In the West," the New York Times explains...
[Image: Gentlemen quarriers of a golden age, via]. Following on from earlier looks at the city as mining district, including a quarry on the Lower East Side, I was interested to read that parts of Ma...
[Image: The ghost town of Animas Forks, Colorado, via Wikipedia]. Fred Chambers, an Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, is studying what he call...
[Image: Building the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; ©ITER Organization]. An artificially excavated limestone pit in the south of France will soon host star-making technology, New S...
A few opportunities for those of you looking for new outlets: 1) Kerb, the journal of landscape architecture from RMIT University in Melbourne, is publishing its 20th issue, on "speculative narra...
[Image: The plug, courtesy of Homeland Securitys Resilient Tunnel Project, via Wired UK].The U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys "Resilient Tunnel Project" has come up with a prototype 35,0...
While looking for an image for the previous post, I found these videos of a lake or lagoon being opened up after intense rain so that the water flows out to sea—creating, within minutes, powerful riv...
[Image: Photo by M. Scott Brauer, via ScienceDaily].Researchers at MITs Distributed Robotics Laboratory is working on so-called "smart sand," which would allow for the "spontaneous format...
[Image: "Caves for New York" (1942) by Hugh Ferriss].After writing the previous post—about Hong Kongs impending infrastructural self-burial in the form of artificial caves beneath the island ...
Several months ago we looked at a network of artificial caves being built beneath Singapore that will, upon completion, extend the citys energy infrastructure under the Pacific seabed; and, back in 2...
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