The Weather Bowl
[Image: A passing Illinois lightning storm and supercell, the clouds peeling away to reveal evening stars; photo ©Extreme Instability/Mike Hollingshead. If you can overlook pet photos, meanwhile, don’t...
View ArticleZone for Cloud
[Image: Detail of a zoning map for New York City]. Earlier this month, mammoth – just two months old, but already one of the more interesting architecture blogs out there – cited climatological...
View ArticleWeather is the Future of Urban Design
[Image: From a newscast about Istanbul’s recent tornadoes]. It’s hard to resist a story where urban design is blamed for creating tornadoes. But the recent cluster of “freak mini-tornadoes” striking...
View ArticleUnder the Bridge
Photographer Gisela Erlacher has been documenting “the spaces found hidden underneath highways and flyovers across Europe and China,” as seen in the many photos posted over at Creative Boom. “Each...
View ArticleDirections Might Not Terminate
Katherine Ye has posted short descriptions of “twenty tiny cities,” an homage to Italo Calvino, and some of them are so good. Clockwork City: “Buildings are constantly sliding, turning, merging,...
View ArticleThe Infrastructural Fever Dream
[Image: Rendering by Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, via The New York Times]. Brooklyn might be getting a waterfront streetcar system. It would connect Sunset Park all the way to Astoria,...
View ArticleThe Electromagnetic Fortification of the Suburbs
[Image: A drone from DJI]. It’s hardly surprising to read that drones can be repurposed as burglars’ tools; at this point, take any activity, add a drone, and you, too, can have a news story (or...
View ArticleCalling All Agents
Here are some opportunities for writers, designers, and filmmakers, in case you’re looking for ways to challenge yourself over the summer. [Image: “Angels” (2006) by Ruairi Glynn, one of the...
View ArticleThe Remnants
[Image: From An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands by Robert Burley]. Photographer Robert Burley has a new book due out in two weeks called An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural...
View ArticleCities of the Sun
[Image: Ningbo, China, via Google Maps]. Although I will leave it up to you to decide if you agree with the author’s critique of planning regulations, there is nonetheless a fascinating post over at...
View ArticleMetropolitan Accomplice
[Image: Photo by Jonas Roosens/AFP/Getty Images, courtesy of the Guardian]. You might have seen the news that a crew of burglars used sewer tunnels beneath the diamond district in Antwerp, Belgium, to...
View ArticleThe Weather Bowl
[Image: A passing Illinois lightning storm and supercell, the clouds peeling away to reveal evening stars; photo ©Extreme Instability/Mike Hollingshead. If you can overlook pet photos, meanwhile, don’t...
View ArticleZone for Cloud
[Image: Detail of a zoning map for New York City]. Earlier this month, mammoth – just two months old, but already one of the more interesting architecture blogs out there – cited climatological...
View ArticleCalling All Agents
Here are some opportunities for writers, designers, and filmmakers, in case you’re looking for ways to challenge yourself over the summer. [Image: “Angels” (2006) by Ruairi Glynn, one of the...
View ArticleWeather is the Future of Urban Design
[Image: From a newscast about Istanbul’s recent tornadoes]. It’s hard to resist a story where urban design is blamed for creating tornadoes. But the recent cluster of “freak mini-tornadoes” striking...
View ArticleThe Electromagnetic Fortification of the Suburbs
[Image: A drone from DJI]. It’s hardly surprising to read that drones can be repurposed as burglars’ tools; at this point, take any activity, add a drone, and you, too, can have a news story (or...
View ArticleUnder the Bridge
Photographer Gisela Erlacher has been documenting “the spaces found hidden underneath highways and flyovers across Europe and China,” as seen in the many photos posted over at Creative Boom. “Each...
View ArticleDirections Might Not Terminate
Katherine Ye has posted short descriptions of “twenty tiny cities,” an homage to Italo Calvino, and some of them are so good. Clockwork City: “Buildings are constantly sliding, turning, merging,...
View ArticleThe Remnants
[Image: From An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands by Robert Burley]. Photographer Robert Burley has a new book due out in two weeks called An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural...
View ArticleCities of the Sun
[Image: Ningbo, China, via Google Maps]. Although I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you agree with the author’s critique of planning regulations, there is a fascinating post over at NYU’s Marron...
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