Save the worlds rainforests a search at a time with Ecosia. (via)
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The Art of Simon Page
The Art of Simon Page, just fantastic. Check out his international year of astronomy set also.
Google street view now in Finland
Google Street View came to Finland this week, and the coverage looks really good, although there should really be a winter version as well as a summer one here.
Pixelache 2010
Pixelache’s 2010 Helsinki Programme is up on the internets and it’s the best one yet, it’s really developing into a fantastic kind of city laboratory and getting stronger every year, coming up a few more art and energy consumption crossovers like Nuage Vert, as well as other cool stuff like window farms.
Ode to Reading
Read voraciously, many books at a time. Only then will you hear the conversation taking place among them. (via)
Longest Sea Bridge
China has just announced it began constructing the world’s longest sea bridge which will be 50km long. It is y shaped in plan and connects China, Hong Kong and Macau. Just for reference there has been much talk in Finland and indeed Estonia about a link between Helsinki and Tallinn, it was in the Helsinki2050 [...]
aj notebook
The new aj notebook is pretty cool for a desktop/coffeetable browse.
Roman Architecture
23 lectures on Roman Architecture, in case you wondered what a first year history of Architecture course would be like.
The Answer
Why is there something rather than nothing? The answer is there had to be.
Nordic Names
nordic names website will answer all your questions about what all those names mean. I particularly liked the entry for Smilla a name made up by Danish author Peter Høeg in the book Smilla’s Feeling for Snow and now being used in Sweden.
Broadband Access Legal Right in Finland
Finland will be the first ( or maybe second behind Switzerland) country in the world to have a broadband connection a legal right from summer of 2010. (via)
David Byrnes’ Perfect City
A great article by David Byrne about his perfect city,
If a city doesn’t have sufficient density, as in L.A., then strange things happen. It’s human nature for us to look at one another— we’re social animals after all. But when the urban situation causes the distance between us to increase and our interactions to be [...]
Facade Projection
This is an amazing facade projection. The project was by Daniel Rossa and urbanscreen.com (via)
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Finnish Architecture.fi
Finnish Architecture.fi website has had a revamp and had added some new and much needed content. Hopefully it will now stay abreast of Finnish architeture news and be updated regularly unlike the old site. But where are the rss feeds?
update: I checked back today (17.09.09) and they have a feed now. Nice work!
Glasgow Shed
I haven’t read a better or more direct and telling criticism of any building as Entschwindet und Vergehts’ review of Zaha Hadid’s Glasgow Museum of Transport for an awfully long time. It’s the sort of criticism which reminds me why we need Architecture bloggers who don’t have to scrape the floor to get copy. It [...]
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9/11 Reconstruction
National Geographic shows a computer reconstruction of the impact of the planes on the twin towers.