Archive for January, 2012
Leap
I really love this prefabricated, multi-modular Alpine lodge designed by Leapfactory. Dezeen has all the simply stunning photos.
Espoo Venice!
With a lot less exposure than the Central Library competition but with much potential the city of Espoo has launched a competition for a masterplan of Finnoo-Kaitaa for 20,000 people. There has just previously been a masterplan report made (download pdf here ) by WSP Finland who won the Helsinki 2050 competition a few years [...]
Against Censorship
SOPA & PIPA are the sort of Bullshit censorship models we can do without on the internet. That’s why I went dark on the 18th January and thankfully they were defeated this time. Have a read of some background to the well thought out arguments as why we need to oppose these types of measures [...]
The Kindle as the Endless book
So my first ebook reader a basic Kindle 4 came in the post just as the first Kindle fire was being launched in the States. I had been thinking of getting one for a while but with the recent revised lineup bringing a nice design simplification and price drop of the basic model I [...]
Schooling from two perspectives
A couple of links first about the Finnish School system in the Atlantic. The answers Finland provides seem to run counter to just about everything America’s school reformers are trying to do. Compare this with an article in the Guardian today US Schools with their own police. More and more US schools have police patrolling [...]