Bldgblog has a great post about “pedestrian nostalgia”:
[S]omething I think about more and more lately is the possibility that Americans get as nostalgic as they do about college—identifying themselves as graduates of certain universities to a degree, and with a passion, that I genuinely think is alien to most cultures—whatever that means—not simply because college represents the only four years in which they might have pursued their real interests, but because, in the United States, college is a totally different lifestyle.
You walk everywhere.
Meanwhile, tomorrow night at the Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena, Bldgblog and Materials & Applications are sponsoring a film fest dedicated to science fiction and architecture. It’s free and open to the public. More details at Bldgblog.
Gravestmor has a post up about OMA’s current project: building the Death Star in Dubai (or is it a giant radio?).
Also in Dubai, Alec Soth has an image up of the collection of man-made islands created in the form of a map of the world. Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson just bought Greece.
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