Archive for August, 2011
Paris Post-it Wars
Paris is in the grip of a post-it war: Hostilities were first engaged on the gleaming facades of Montreuil office park, east of Paris, home to gaming giant Ubisoft and BNP-Paribas bank’s IT systems. The conflict has since spread to the business district of La Défense, and to the equally besuited enclave of Issy-les-Moulineaux, which [...]
Guggenheim Redux
A couple of bloggers I follow report on last weeks interview in HS about the Guggenheim proposal in Helsinki. JHJ & Arkkivahti. Following on from my post about the Guggenheim, its clear that the city are serious. But if I was to make a crazy guess it would be that the Katajanokka site, important and [...]
Finnish Wine
The most northerly wine in the world is produced in Olkiluoto in Finland1 with the help of nuclear powered waste water. But what I find more interesting is that Finland actually has a small network of farms making their own wine from Finnish berries (Blackcurrent, Blueberry, Whitecurrent, Cloudberry). Who’d have guessed that there is a [...]
101 Things I learned in Architecture School
101 Things I learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick. (Amazon .co.uk / .com) A friend loaned this book to me and before I hand it back, long overdue, I thought I’d write a few things about it. I read it through once, at the beginning of my loan from cover to cover, then again [...]
Soulreasons
I have been helping my Dad set up his own blog. It’s called soulreasons. Drop by to read writings on consciousness and other phiosophical issues.