Stray dogs take refuge in the streets of Greece

, originally uploaded by dion_b

• Acroplis Museum (above, at the end of the road)
• Agro Architecture
• Museum Plaza by REX
• The Mongol devastations: The destruction of Dresden and Hiroshima marked the beginning of the Cold War. The Allies wrestled for control of the world while the civilian population was taken hostage. Interesting, but the revisionist history of why certain strategies were undertaken are taken from a safe distance of time and security.
• Never confuse the words “hybrid”, “dual fuel”, and “fuel efficient”
• Urban Exploring Photography: Naked City Spleen & NY Times article
• On the Chicago Olympics Logo
• An alternate NYC Taxi logo design – see also NYC Taxi Logo Change
• Cloud House

The Fifth Element
Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods
New York Canyonlands
Watching The Fifth Element makes me yearn for the 1980’s-90’s hyper-urban fantasies of New York City illustrated by Delirious New York and The Fifth Element; both came about in 1997 very well could be the inflection point in the history of the urban condition. New York City’s metamorphosis from a city on the verge of bankruptcy and scary other, to a renaissance city of low crime, solvency and revitalization. Yet the theme which runs through all three examples is that the urban form itself will survive, and thrive, no matter if the city grows so large the bottoms are shrouded in fog (Element), or the East River is damed up (Woods) or if the New York Region is turned into an Arizona-like wasteland. While Taxi Driver was emblematic of the city’s demise, the hyper-urbanism illustrated in The Fifth Element is a warning of the perils of runaway urbanism.

• The Fifth Element
• Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods
• New York Canyonlands

The Superest

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The Portugal 2007 logo reveals a Portuguese view of the visual representation of the Presidency of the European Union.
The “Blue flower” is a symbol of today’s Portugal: modernity, harmony, the oceans, transparency and openness to the future.
The petals are arranged freely but concentrically, symbolising the individual contribution of each Member State to the joint endeavour of building Europe.
The possibility of the symbol adopting the colours of each national flag confers on the Portuguese presidency a constructive image of openness and cooperation with every Member State of the European Union.

Logo for Portugal 2007 Presidency of the European Union

Wall, originally uploaded by low n slow

• A Minor History of Giant Spheres
• Ruderal Land Trust
• Portfolio Porn: Grad School Portfolio, Portfolio, Portfolio, Quilian Riano Design Portfolio
• The return of Perkins + Will’s Antilla “Green” Tower in Mumbai
• Frank Lloyd Wright Commissions
• The Scavenger’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Architecture of Chicagoland : Chicago Architecture Info

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Airline Branding Weblog

French Cross, originally uploaded by iJohn

For the one reader out there who wanted to comment, but couldn’t, I fixed the comments.

Video: Fonts & Typography on CBS Sunday Morning, via kottke via quipsologies.