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xx-archit A look at the stunning Pathe Tuschinski Movie Theatre.

xx-archit Photos of the full-scale prototype of Air Architecture's PAS Skateboard House, currently being built, for real, for the founder of Etnies.

xx-archit Ever wonder what it would be like to ride the world's steepest rollercoaster? Wonder no more. Freeze frame at 2:00 and try not to lose your lunch.

xx-archit Not for me but maybe some of you might be brave enough to try the Plank Walk at Huashan Mountain once it is completed.

xx-archit The ongoing restoration of the world's only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed gas station, located in Cloquet, Minnesota. Photos of the station, here.

xx-archit (Eyes closed, heels clicking) I wish I was here...I wish I was here.... I wish I was here.

xx-archit Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed.

xx-archit Four years, 26 miles and 5,000 pillars later, China opens the world's longest sea bridge.

xx-archit Tilburg University's Faculty Club by Dutch firm Shift Architecture Urbanism "is designed as a carved-out-monolith, one simple box in which transparency and massiveness melt together." Sublime.

xx-archit Too bad I don't have an extra 23.5 million dollars laying around . *Sigh*

xx-archit "...they shot time-lapse footage of lower Manhattan being disassembled-always easier than putting something together-then ran it backwards to give the illusion of super-smooth construction." Building a City in Reverse, from Core 77.

xx-archit Inside 1948, Nike's newly redesigned retail and creative space in London. Via It's Nice That.

xx-archit Sculptural faces of Paris, photgraphed by Marco Gervasio. Via @bengreenman.

xx-archit Unconventional and beautiful modernism, Long Island House by Thomas Phifer and Partners. Via The Fox is Black.

xx-archit (Eyes closed, heels clicking) I wish I was here...I wish I was here.... I wish I was here.

xx-archit Better Homes & Bunkers: The Fallout Shelter for the Nuclear Family, by Susan Roy.

xx-archit The " one myth about the Capitol Records building that refuses to go away."

xx-archit (Eyes closed, heels clicking) I wish I was here... I wish I was here... I wish I was here.

xx-archit We've previously linked The Cube, a restaurant that is temporarily installed in various spectacular locations. Here are some photos of the current placement at Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.

xx-archit Scottish ruins transformed into a modern low-impact home. Lovely.

xx-archit If you're a bat or a moth, then you should be hightailing it to the UK, where construction will soon begin on the country's first bat station.

xx-archit The new, daring Bella Sky Hotel in Copehagen, by 3XN. Via The Fox Is Black.

xx-archit Parts from a 747 airplane were used to build a Malibu cliff house. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Related to an earlier post, Christian Schallert's 258 square foot flat in Barcelona.

xx-archit Dr Mike Page from the University of Hertfordshirt takes you on a tour of the Cube, a 3x3x3m eco-home in which one person can live with a minimum impact on the environment.

xx-archit Checking under sofa cushions for an extra 14.9 million. Holy cow.

xx-archit "Alex and Seonaid Maclean-Bristol's house on the Isle of Coll in Scotland was built in the ruins of a house abandoned 150 years earlier." Via This Isn't Happiness.

xx-archit Gorgeous renovation of a 1959 Airstream into a mobile studio.

xx-archit A Zombie-proof home. Stylish too.

xx-archit Gorgeous home in Paradise Valley, AZ.

xx-archit Wow, the highest hotel in the world is now open.

xx-archit Have an extra 5 million bucks laying around? Put it to good use by purchasing the lovely Millard House by Frank Lloyd Wright.

xx-archit A look inside the secret rooms of the Frick mansion in NY.

xx-archit The blue town of Morocco.

xx-archit The "Swimsuit Issue" of contemporary residential architecture. AR's Record Houses 2011. Via Things.

xx-archit Regarding Jason Kottke's post on the Brighton Beach Hotel and how buildings move, check this: how to move a 100 year old church. Great track, cinematography and editing.

xx-archit Be careful what you "audaciously propose" because sometimes it might wind up actually happening. Berlin will soon have its own artificial mountain, "to be used by Alpine climbing enthusiasts."

xx-archit Gatsby's mansion is being razed "to accommodate five $10 million custom homes."

xx-archit "Traveling across Belgium, Italy, Russia, Switzerland and Sweden, two spectacularly designed restaurants will be popping up at some of Europe's most famous landmarks, inspiring guests with wonderful meals, events and once-in-a-lifetime views." The Electrolux Cube Restaurant. Via Moco Loco.

xx-archit Norman Mailer's apartment is for sale.

xx-archit Stunning conversion of a convent in France to a home. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Building out Core77's Hand-Eye Supply Store in pictures. Hey Portland, there are Field Notes in there somewhere. Thanks for that.

xx-archit If I was going to live on a farm, it would be here.

xx-archit The Wisconsin Historical Society has acquired a set of rare photo proofs of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen I and II, in Spring Green, 1911-24. Via Andrew Abb.

xx-archit Oh to be a child in Oslo: the newly completed Fagerborg Kindergarten by architect Reiulf Ramstad, who, on a personal note, is a fun guy to have a meal with.

xx-archit Related to the last, creepy abandoned amusement parks.

xx-archit 75 abandoned movie theaters, via Josh Berta at Quipsologies.

xx-archit Stunning home for sale in San Francisco. *Sigh*

xx-archit Chicago 1977 - 2011 from the perspective of Big John. Via Gapers.

xx-archit The Grand Large District in Dunkirk, France. Wow. More background and photos.

xx-archit Gorgeous, the Santorini Grace Hotel.

xx-archit Let's go to the movies and I don't much care what's playing so long as it's at The Bio Rio in Stockholm.

xx-archit A Chicago Sojourn takes a look both inside and out at Lane Tech High School.

xx-archit Edward knows what he wants for his birthday. Me too. It will look nice next to my Fallingwater.

xx-archit Marshall: Your new office? MS: Yes please!

xx-archit "A dense fabric of organically woven and undulating panels compose the space and starkly contrast the medieval environment that surrounds it." Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain.

xx-archit This year's winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture is Eduardo Souto de Moura.

xx-archit Local note, Happy Birthday Mies.

xx-archit I'm tired of this 30 degree weather. If anyone needs me, I'll be at the Santorini Grace Hotel, co-designed by the Greek architecture firms Divercity and mplusm. Via Yatzer.

xx-archit Not from a Kubrick set. The Sofia and Varna Air Traffic Control Center in Bulgaria. Or, our model for redecorating the HQ at Coudal.

xx-archit On March 28th, Project Cabrini Green will place 134 LED lights in each apartment within the last remaining building of the infamous housing project. The lights will remain lit throughout the tower's four week demolition, until they're all destroyed.

xx-archit Gorgeous, a look inside a Russian nuclear power plant control room.

xx-archit I wonder if this would fit on my deck.

xx-archit I hereby volunteer to start up the overseas branch of CP in one of Europe's Starter Castles.

xx-archit A look at the stunning Como Shambhala resort in Bali.

xx-archit Proof that urban decay isn't only relegated to Detroit: Owen Hatherley's well written and photographed, Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain.

xx-archit The ongoing project, 27, "a journey through contemporary architecture in Europe." Beautifully shot.

xx-archit ArchDaily on a house in Leiria, Portugal by architect Manuel Aires Mateus. Fantastic.

xx-archit A regular dose of "skeletal archiporn" at Scaffoldage. Via Doobybrain.

xx-archit A sculptural staircase that seamlessly flows into the rest of the house.

xx-archit Las Vegas Studio. Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, a great illustrated review of the book by Claus Richter of Stylepark. Via ISO50.

xx-archit The folks over at National Geographic have created an actual Up-inspired floating house.

xx-archit The Architecture of Convenience, an interesting read from the Denver Post about 7-11's buildings and how they fit into their various surroundings.

xx-archit Gorgeous renovation of a vintage 1970's Airstream trailer.

xx-archit Arrrgggghhhh!

xx-archit Related to below and a possible relink: a great story on what it was like growing up in Case Study House No. 22.

xx-archit "The cantilevered living room appears to float diaphanously above Los Angeles." Yep, you know that iconic photo.

xx-archit That is some pied-a-terre. *Sigh*

xx-archit Christian Pottgiesser designed the combined headquarters for two French companies, Pons and Huot. If you have lots of natural light, why not have trees inside? Via Core77

xx-archit Gorgeous, the Guangzhou Opera House.

xx-archit Imagine you were a kid living in a house like this.

xx-archit Scans of student architecture projects from the early 1970s in the LA Times' Home magazine. Via Archinect.

xx-archit "The Illinois playhouse is inspired by the Modern Movement from the middle of the 20th century. Its design is characterized by simple shapes, the absence of adornment and the perfection of its details." Gorgeous.

xx-archit A look a the first completed venue for the 2012 Olympics, the London 2012 Olympic Velodrome.

xx-archit The Bridge At Hoover Dam, amazing photos by Jamey Stillings, and also an interview with him at TMN.

xx-archit Want.

xx-archit A few trees and we're all set, Honey we're moving.

xx-archit Midget & Giant, an ingenious installation by architect Ryuji Nakamura. Material: paper. Site: on the top of a Mac display.

xx-archit Stunning, a concrete factory converted to a castle home.

xx-archit Architect Ricardo Bofill's cement factory turned studio and residence in Barcelona.

xx-archit A look at Google's Pittsburgh office, in the penthouse of a 100 year old Biscuit Factory.

xx-archit National Geographic shows us what's under Paris. Which calls for a re-link to Porchez' examination of the typography found in Paris' catacombs.

xx-archit The Goddard Mandolene residence by Arthur Witthoefft from 1957, impeccably restored. Via Daily Icon.

xx-archit Trailer for Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julian Shulman.

xx-archit The Querosene House is stunning but my favorite thing about the house is all those bookshelves. *Sigh*

xx-archit Argentinian JD House by BAK Architects.

xx-archit An abandoned Men's Club is now a home. Thanks Michael!

xx-archit Mike Cozart's Aloha Lanes, a circa 1960 Southern California bowling complex in a South Seas setting, at 1/8th scale. Via Dinosaurs and Robots.

xx-archit Living in an egg in Beijing.

xx-archit The inspiring and just-exactly-right new site for The Mies van der Rohe Society. Our favorite building anywhere never looked better. Huge props to Scott Thomas on the work. Local note. A party.

xx-archit "The modern home has six rooms including a living room, kitchen, library/office, master bedroom, bathroom and child's bedroom. With its large, open floor plan and floor-to-ceiling windows, the Emerson House enjoys year-round sunlight." The Emerson House modern dollhouse. Gorgeous.

xx-archit "Do these people come to you? They must. I have never gone to them." Frank Lloyd Wright on a 1956 episode of What's My Line? Via Archinect.

xx-archit Finalists' proposed plans for a wildlife crossing over the I-70 freeway near Vail, Colorado.

xx-archit Winner of this year's World Architecture Festival award for best interiors and fit out award, the stunning ANZ Centre.

xx-archit Jesse Walker on the The Geodesic Homes of Idaho Falls, Idaho.

xx-archit This is the blue print to the Millennium Falcon.

xx-archit "Of course we repeat; we repeat what we like! It's not because we are lazy people; it's not because we want to repeat ourselves. But as an architect, you rely on your own experience." Edward Lifson chats with Renzo Piano about his new pavilion at the LACMA,

xx-archit A database of modernist architectural theory, Modernist Architecture.

xx-archit Totally cool, Brooklyn to New York on a train, via the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899. Via MeFi.

xx-archit "We are prepared to be radical." Short documentary by Dan Lowe on The "Sliding House" in Suffolk UK. Alex de Rijke of dRMM is the architect.

xx-archit Nightingale House, stunning.

xx-archit Oliver Charles' award-winning conceptual CGI rendering for the Stockholm Library.

xx-archit Amazing. Fantastic. L'usine on Kotaro Ide's Shell Residence.

xx-archit A rendering of Lucasfilm's sleek new studio building planned for Fusionopolis in Singapore looks like it's straight out of Coruscant.

xx-archit Fortport on Autostella, an intimate showroom for the Fiat 500 being sold in Thailand.

xx-archit Alissa Walker visits 37signals new space for Fast Company.

xx-archit "Begun in the 1930's, the Stalin-era underground was the USSR's largest civilian construction project, with stations built as 'people's palaces.' Employing outstanding architects and artists, it still looks amazing after all those years." Moscow Metro.

xx-archit These photographs of residents of Lafayette Park, a residential community in Detroit designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe, were shot in the same room in each of their townhomes.

xx-archit Spectacular photos by Jamey Stillings of The Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, which is 1900 feet long and 900 feet above the Colorado River and set to open to traffic this week. Enjoy this in full-screen mode. Here's an ATC piece by Ted Robbins on the project.

xx-archit "If you were dancing to the Chrysler Building, it would be a Jazz Age foxtrot. Mies' Crown Hall would demand something far more stately." Zulkey interviews Blair Kamin, the Trib's resident architecture critic.

xx-archit Alas, it seems Chicago will never get its unicorn horn.

xx-archit A whole slew of photos of the beautiful Public Library of Mexico in Mexico City. Via DDoA.

xx-archit Spain on the edge.

xx-archit So you know, the world's largest skatepark.

xx-archit For MS: a look inside 1430 W. Berwyn, the eccentric house in Andersonville that you'll find is even more eccentric once you've gone through the front door.

xx-archit "At the top of Mt. Olympus in San Francisco, on what was once thought to be the geographic center of the city, is a pedestal for a statue that isn't there. There's no marker. You can just make out the word 'erected' on the stone surface, but there's nothing that lets anyone know that this was once the site of San Francisco's own (much, much smaller) statue of liberty and light."

xx-archit A great piece on architect Todd Saunders and his beautiful Fogo Island Arts buildings in rural Newfoundland.

xx-archit Skyscraper, interrupted. 12 Stalled projects around the world.

xx-archit Stairs to nowhere.

xx-archit Seems like an excellent set for 72°. Peter Dazeley's photos of Battersea Power Station. Via CR.

xx-archit FotA Rob Walker has founded The Hypothetical Development Organization, a project that will create convincing renderings for buildings in New Orleans that have fallen into disrepair. Nothing will be built, but "a new form of urban storytelling" will be born. Here's the project's Kickstarter page if you'd like to help out.

xx-archit From my new favorite blog, A Chicago Sojourn: "the painted concrete artistry of Jerome Soltan." A great post about the architect who built the the midcentury entryways to many of the apartment buildings in my neighborhood.

xx-archit So you know, 10 unique, one-of-a-kind homes.

xx-archit "RECESS began 2 years ago when I made my home in the southwest United States. Like much of the West, our reliance on the continuous import of vital resources (food, water, medical supplies) is unsustainable and untenable. Crisis preparedness is vital, and RECESS is my answer." Via sub-studio.

xx-archit An absolutely stunning houseboat. Yes, I said houseboat.

xx-archit The mid-century Sunday Barbecue cut out set.

xx-archit The secret sounds of Stonehenge.

xx-archit The Foot Patrol Concept Store in London, designed by Wilson Brothers. Via Spaceinvading.

xx-archit Pleasant Family Shopping, a blog about "supermarkets, discount stores and more from the past." Bookmarked. Thanks Peacay.

xx-archit Architect Rick Joy's beautiful Woodstock Farm in rural Vermont. Video of it here.

xx-archit Want.

xx-archit The top 20 urban planning successes of all time.

xx-archit For your backyard, Poliedro Habitable. Via Contemporist.

xx-archit "Synchrophasotron, an accelerator built in Dubna in 1957, has become the biggest and the most powerful for his time."

xx-archit Abandoned houses of real-life super villians.

xx-archit This design transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape by making only small alterations to existing pylon design.

xx-archit A crowd-sourced global directory of buildings, OpenBuildings.

xx-archit "A huge and previously unknown trove of archival material from Philip Johnson's architectural practice --including his hand-drawn sketches for towers that helped define postmodern architecture -- is to be put up for sale by one of Johnson's former partners, who has had them in storage for years."

xx-archit "After dinner I said to my wife, 'How would you like to have this guy build us a house?'" Adelman says. "'Wow,' she says. 'You kidding me or what?'" Interesting story of how Albert "Ollie" Adelman talked Frank Lloyd Wright into building a home for him.

xx-archit Follow the demolition of Owen Luder's brutalist Trinity Square Car Park on both Twitter and in this Flickr pool. A great side-by-side comparison from 2005 between it and matching stills from Get Carter. It's part of a great, larger collection retracing the film's locations.

xx-archit Gorgeous artist workshop in Boeotia, Greece.

xx-archit Tiny Houses.

xx-archit Nice summer house.

xx-archit Indefinite in number, but of certain fixed shapes, another great find from Geoff Manaugh

xx-archit The 9 Hours Capsule Hotel in Kyoto, Japan. Sleek and 2001-ish. Via Daily Icon.

xx-archit The City That Never Was, an exhibition of unrealized architecture plans for Berlin. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Herman takes a trip to photograph Rochester, NY's abandoned trolley tunnels. More info here.

xx-archit Dumpster diving on Park Avenue in New York City. Literally.

xx-archit The Treehotel in Sweden. Four rooms/mini-houses are finished so far, with more coming. Thanks Claire.

xx-archit Roger Ebert on Chicago architecture. Homesick, it makes me.

xx-archit Frank Gehry's house, at Arch Daily.

xx-archit Fascinating audio and visual tour of the abandoned Ducor Hotel in Liberia.

xx-archit Secret stations and boyhood love on the Paris Metro.

xx-archit "During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish." When Less Was More.

xx-archit Local note: the Chicago Architecture Foundation has started Mies & Modernism: The IIT Campus Tour, a guided walking tour around the campus, "with a special emphasis on the years 1938-1958, the time of Mies' tenure as the head of the School of Architecture."

xx-archit Vanity Fair takes a look at Architecture in the Age of Gehry.

xx-archit Love the look of this macaroon shop in Mexico.

xx-archit Just looking at the pictures made me break out into a cold sweat. The new Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore features an infinity pool 55 stories up.

xx-archit "...it's been a discovery... late in a career-of the luxury of nondesign as a method for dealing with issues rather than the always serious effort of intelligent invention or insertion." A fascinating interview about museums with architect Rem Koolhaas in Artfourm.

xx-archit The Karel Appel House in Amsterdam. Could also function well under the name "The Mondrian House."

xx-archit Video tour of projects made with Suicidator City Generator, software that allows you to create whole cities just by setting a few variables. Via Things Mag.

xx-archit "Even an idiot can carve a statue of Lenin...but for building a stable and strong base, the knowledge of the old school was indispensable." Looking at the bases underneath Soviet statues.

xx-archit Kevin van Braak's staircase was made in one piece and placed over a tree.

xx-archit House on Lake Okoboji in Iowa. Min/Day architects.

xx-archit A look at a stunning abandoned palace on Beekman Street.

xx-archit A Daily Dose on Andy Warhol's "Silver Clouds" installed at Crown Hall. Edward Lifson has a few more photos.

xx-archit Spending the night tonight at the Juvet Landscape Hotel which is almost uncomfortably scenic and modern, that's how cool it is.

xx-archit Soccer City Stadium 2010.

xx-archit Photos showing the dramatic changes in the skyline of Shanghai from 1996 to 2010.

xx-archit 3-D tours of all of South AFrica's 2010 FIFA World Cup football stadiums.

xx-archit "The world's first hotel made from rubbish has opened its doors in the Italian capital Rome."

xx-archit Gorgeous photos of the Museum of Islamic Art.

xx-archit The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released their list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.

xx-archit Get your fish a condo.

xx-archit "These men who stare at IKEA furniture have been tasked to design a store that can snare cool hunters into a continuous delirium of consumption."

xx-archit Love this concrete house in Madrid.

xx-archit Take a tour of the UK's World Expo pavilion, the amazing Seed Cathedral.

xx-archit Living Architecture, vacation in one-of-a-kind, modern buildings, designed by leading architects. A sweet idea, but watch out for the first step out the door of "The Balancing Barn." Via @bobulate.

xx-archit The Danish Pavilion at EXPO 2010.

xx-archit It's Not a Crack House, It's a Crack Home but in real life.

xx-archit James A. Fitzpatrick's Traveltalks 1948 Chicago the Beautiful. Sweet. Thanks Pop!

xx-archit "Planes are shifted off the orthogonal to accommodate function; as a side effect it relieves inhabitants from a harsh Euclidian geometry." Couch Cushion Fort Architecture; A Critical Analysis. Via C-Monster.

xx-archit Shanghai's World Expo is nearly ready. Wow.

xx-archit Gary's 344 square foot apartment in Hong Kong has 24 rooms.

xx-archit House Beo is sleek, modern and sort of an aquarium, especially at night. Via Daily Icon.

xx-archit I wouldn't mind parking my car here every day for work, would you?

xx-archit Wooden Churches, Travelling in the Russian North, a photo series by Richard Davies. Via Conscientious.

xx-archit Gah! A huge and utterly fabulous collection of work from the famed 1960's futurist architectural group Archigram. Find out more about the group here.

xx-archit Local note: "The Society of Architectural Historians has created an innovative walking tour that enables Chicagoans to download building histories on their web-enabled cell phones." Point, Click, Learn . Very cool.

xx-archit For my Dad, because he needs to move his wine collection out of the closet he has it in and into something like this. Sorry Mom.

xx-archit "The simple truth is that successful city-building is less about big moves and more about perseverance and day-to-day management." Interesting piece by Witold Rybczynski on the future of urban planning. Via Archinect.

xx-archit "For the first 40 years no one seemed to notice the man collecting bricks. Almost invisibly, the scrap material mounted on a patch of land outside Madrid- a pile of crooked bricks, a tangle of steel wire -until, eventually, something remarkable began to take form." Don Justo is building a cathedral.

xx-archit Just a tad taller than the Statue of Liberty, Anish Kapoor's ArcelorMittal Orbit in London.

xx-archit BldgBlog on The Klip House. a futuristic, imaginative, quick construction system.

xx-archit "Through the process of decay, ruins offer an aesthetic experience that bypasses the normal designs of the city, often over-regulated, boring and too smooth. In ruins, we can come across unexpected sights, weird vestiges of the past, unfathomable artifacts, cryptic signs, unfamiliar textures and large, impressive objects." British industrial ruins.

xx-archit Transforming The Tate. Watch as this is built. Via Things Magazine.

xx-archit For SD, Hobbit houses of the real world: Welcome to the Shire.

xx-archit Related to the last, Restoring Modernism, a video interview with Ron Krueck, lead architect on the project.

xx-archit Mies van der Rohe's 860-880 Lake Shore Drive refurbishment by Krueck & Sexton, a spectacular job, nicely photographed and presented by Dezeen. Via a guy who has lives there, Edward Lifson.

xx-archit RIP Bruce Graham, architect of The Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center.

xx-archit Am amazing house in the trees.

xx-archit The secret cities of Yemen.

xx-archit "The general view that every square inch of land is worth a bazillion dollars is just not true. There are gaps in the façade that whole towns have fallen into, along with bizarre abandoned theme parks, ruined U.S. Air Force bases, and the tawdry remnants of pay-by-the-hour love hotels." 10 Japanese ghost towns.

xx-archit Book Patrol on the beautiful new modernist library in Lausanne, Switzerland by SANAA.

xx-archit The structures of the house and every piece of furniture inside are constructed entirely from used plastic. La Casa de Botellas.

xx-archit So beautiful, Arkinet on the wooden churches of the Russian North.

xx-archit For BB: a tour of Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne's house. Looks sort of exactly how you'd expect it would.

xx-archit Take a look at some Vancouver's Olympic venues.

xx-archit The 9 Hours, a brand new take on the capsule hotel concept, designed by Fumie Shibata of Design Studio S.

xx-archit "Ice House Detroit is an Architectural installation and social change project currently taking place in Detroit. Photographer Gregory Helm and Architect Matthew Radune will use one of 20,000 abandoned houses and freeze it into solid ice, referencing the contemporary urban conditions in the city and beyond." .

xx-archit Marks Barfield Architects' Villa Hush Hush residence, a whole quarter of which can be raised and lowered at a "gentle and steady" 10cm per second.

xx-archit "I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies."

xx-archit Related to the last.

xx-archit The house of a football star or a Teletubby? Manchester United's Gary Neville blurs that line. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Atago House.

xx-archit Mammoth makes their case for the best architecture of the past decade.

xx-archit Concrete House in Mar Azul Forest.

xx-archit London's Olympic stadium to be made out of recycled guns and knives

xx-archit "Searching for sites within architecture with a possibility for confusion or misuse, Snarkitecture aims to reconfigure these existing elements to make architecture do things that it is not supposed to do." Snarkitecture.

xx-archit So you know: All about The Candela Structures, inconspicuous architecture in Queens.

xx-archit Geoff Manaugh explains how a Bruce Willis action flick "cinematically depicts what it means to bend space to your own particular navigational needs."

xx-archit Never mind, James May's Lego house was demolished months ago. I'm woefully out-of-date on James May Lego house news.

xx-archit James May of Top Gear fame is trying to get rid of his Lego house.

xx-archit Nice survey of worldwide subway architecture.

xx-archit O House.

xx-archit "Several of the best known names in architecture have created gas stations, around the world, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van der Rohe, Willem Dudok, Jean Prouve, Arne Jacobsen and Norman Foster, but nobody created a design package that was as enduring and comprehensive as Elliot Noyes for Mobil." 15 mid-century modern gas stations.

xx-archit "A vast biological folly in the shadow of desert over-development, the project of Biosphere 2 seems particularly poignant in this unkempt state." Remnants of the Biosphere. Great post by Geoff Manaugh with photos by Noah Sheldon.

xx-archit Edward Lifson went driving in Las Vegas and found this. Lucky for us.

xx-archit "Now that it's gone, of course, we want it back." The Gobbler, the Grooviest Motel in Wisconsin, by James Lileks. Via PCL.

xx-archit Architects Carlo Santambrogio and Ennio Arosio's concept building: Glass Home (insert stone throwing adage here).

xx-archit Lovely, the Bridge House.

xx-archit Former Sun Times' critic Lee Bey on Chicago Architecture 2000-2009.

xx-archit A variety of ski jumps and info on the architects who built them.

xx-archit Clicking around on a 2.3 gigapixel photo of the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, which opens next week. Thanks Edward.

xx-archit "Praised by the poet William Wordsworth in 1820 as 'this immense and glorious work of fine intelligence.' King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England, is the product of an extraordinary combination of royal commitment, turbulent religious politics, violent civil wars, vicious labor disputes, superb medieval craftsmanship, and engineering that has never been replicated and is still not fully understood today." What The Late Middle Ages Wrought.

xx-archit More than twice the size of the Mall of America with only ten tenants. The South China Mall.

xx-archit Photos of the construction of the Eiffel Tower.

xx-archit Alissa Walker on John Seabrook's profile of architect Zaha Hadid: "The New Yorker has done a fine job of examining Hadid as the lone Arab woman at the top of her field. We examine her work as it relates to a greasy, sour cream and onion-scented heap of Frito-Lays."

xx-archit The Tote Mumbai by Serie Architects. A beautiful space at the Mumbai Racecourse.

xx-archit A Mathematician's House, designed by Tetsuya Nakazono.

xx-archit A kitchen island made entirely from Legos.

xx-archit Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel, "covered in a grid of 5,300+ diamond-shaped steel panels that contain nearly 5,000 LED fixtures."

xx-archit Subway architecture from around the world. Hey Chicago, you looking at this?? Thanks Michael.

xx-archit Nice birdhouse.

xx-archit "Something we see too often, and then forget to see." Tokyo Blues, a photo essay by Do Projects. Also available as free download. Via Mefi.

xx-archit I had a playhouse when I was little, a black and white gingerbread-style house that my twin sister and I would play in for hours. It was awesome but these playhouses are insane.

xx-archit Geoff on Support Structures (dig that cover type) and "a social philosophy of buttresses."

xx-archit This Ain't No Disco. Ad and design firm spaces around the world.

xx-archit "Just about every inch of those walls is covered with delicate ornate decorations, looking much like applied frosting." The Sugar House in El Paso, TX. Would makes a nice companion to Mr. Lee's house in Phoenix, don't you think, MS? Via I Like.

xx-archit For KG, a Simpsons fan built his very own real-life Simpsons home.

xx-archit The Cloud, "an entirely new form of observation deck" for London 2012. Just wow. Lots more from Dan Hill at City of Sound who is working on this amazing and ambitious project.

xx-archit In Spanish, but even if aren't bilingual, that shouldn't stop you: Living in Famous Architecture, what it's like to live in "housing by architects like FOA and MVRDV, and also older classics, like Casa Mila." Via Archinect.

xx-archit Grand Teton National Park Discovery and Visitor Center by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Perfect.

xx-archit "A century-old shed with a wall of rusting steel panels sits in a back alley -this is not, to most people, a recipe for a dream home." Elena and Jorge thought differently.

xx-archit If I was going to live on a houseboat, this would be the one.

xx-archit The Death of The Drexel Shaft, sad but beautiful footage of a steam plant's demise in Philadelphia. Via Cynical-C.

xx-archit The Langley Academy by Foster + Partners.

xx-archit Local note. Chicago tears down a Mies, a letter from Edward Lifson.

xx-archit Start them young with Minimii's dollhouse. Via Inhabitots.

xx-archit Edward takes a drive. I call shotgun!

xx-archit Have a few thousand dollars you've been looking to put to something interesting? Donate to The Fallingwater Window Legacy Fund and you'll receive "a commemorative piece of the old Fallingwater glass." Via Archinect.

xx-archit Zlín - Model Town of Modernism.

xx-archit Saving the South Pole Dome.

xx-archit Do you enjoy clean modern spaces? Are you a bear living in Finland? If you answered 'Yes' to both, then we have the house for you. Via bblinks.

xx-archit "While big and wealthy cities in many parts of the world challenge the limits of possibility by building gigantic hotels with fancy shapes, erecting sky-high office towers or constructing hovering philharmonic temples, Berlin sets up a decent mountain. Its peak exceeds 1000 metres and is covered with snow from September to March..." The Berg.

xx-archit Jonathan Glancey's picks for most architecturally-focused movies. Need to see those last two on the list.

xx-archit Fab Sports Center outside of Paris, designed by KOZ.

xx-archit Waterpleinen, innovative stormwater management for Rotterdam makes for cool parks.

xx-archit "Mom, can I be the Guggenheim this year?" Architecture Costumes. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Love all the angles of House Bierings in Utrecht.

xx-archit Yeah, pretty sure that I will not be traversing the Hoover Dam Bypass bridge when it's complete. An amazing feat of engineering that someone else can have the joy of testing out.

xx-archit Local note, related to the last, Edward Lifson moderates an architecture critics summit on Thursday at 6.

xx-archit Edward was at the opening of the new Cambridge, Massachusetts Public Library by William Rawn Associates and Ann Beha, and lucky for us he brought his camera.

xx-archit An old Catholic church in Utrecht transformed into a minimalist home.

xx-archit For JC, the Wilco loft.

xx-archit Dubai's Technosphere.

xx-archit The Tigers Nest monastery at 10,200 feet.

xx-archit An amazing renovation of a a water pumping plant in Berlin. Fab.

xx-archit "Architectural Fantasies: 101 Compositions --101 compositions in color and 101 in black-and-white-is the last and, probably, the best book published during Chernikhov's life and summarizing his search for the forms and images of new architecture."

xx-archit Just got back from a couple of weeks spent in Iowa and while most of what I saw was endless miles of crops, the series of gigantic yurt-like barns Dick Schwab has been building just outside of Solon are just amazing. Sadly, there aren't many photos online, other than these couple. Well worth visiting if you're ever in the neighborhood.

xx-archit 3D rendering of the Farnsworth House by Peter Guthrie. Beyond belief. Via Edward.

xx-archit One more reason to love Chipotle.

xx-archit Mark Bennett's blueprints for fake places. Via MeFi.

xx-archit "After the construction is done, it'll be the biggest airport in Moscow with the ability to serve about 20 million passengers per year."

xx-archit A photo tour of the new Facebook headquarters.

xx-archit Edward Lifson had some remodeling done at his house. Now normally that's not the sort of thing we'd link up here, until you consider where he lives.

xx-archit Travel and Leisure picks their choices for the world's ugliest buildings.

xx-archit The World of Lifeguard Towers. Via Mental Floss.

xx-archit If was going to live in a barn, this would be the one. *Sigh* Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Chicago 2018, a proposal for the first wholly urban Winter Olympics.

xx-archit At home with Charles and Ray Eames in their Pacific Palisades home. From the Life mag archives, via Daily Icon.

xx-archit Volume B Store in Sao Paulo, Brazil, by Marcio Kogan.

xx-archit Neat birdhouse by Emilie Cazin.

xx-archit As attendees from the third Seed Conference at Crown Hall know, when Edward gets going on Mies, it's time to pay attention.

xx-archit An audio slide show of the United Nations.

xx-archit Wow. The Conrad Maldives Hotel.

xx-archit Wishing that my piggy bank was a little bit bigger. Well, actually a whole lot bigger. *Sigh*

xx-archit Dust to dust, as observed by Edward Lifson in Tadao Ando's Church of the Light.

xx-archit Japan's love hotels.

xx-archit Trevor Patt's photos of the new academic building at Cooper Union in New York. It's all kinds of futuristic. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Sarah Balmond visits the AP Moller School in northern Germany for Monocle. Beautiful transparent and practical architecture.

xx-archit Love the Pachacmac House in Lima.

xx-archit Two faves. Edward Lifson visits with Tadao Ando.

xx-archit A house by Karim Rashid.

xx-archit Wondering if this will fit on the back deck, Suburban Tipi.

xx-archit Perhaps the spastic birds that have been terrorizing me could move here?

xx-archit James built himself a house. Out of Legos.

xx-archit Related to the last. Tons of interesting features at the Architech Gallery.

xx-archit Architect Bertrand Goldberg's office materials for the design of Marina City. Fab. Thanks Whet.

xx-archit Here's what the future looks like: Raquel Welch as Space-Girl dancing in front of sculptures built for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Via Archinect.

xx-archit "It tends to look unreal, like an architect's rendering or a scale model, unless it is framed by something else." Just because it's the world's third largest mosque doesn't make it any less incredibly gigantic or impressive. Quite the contrary.

xx-archit The LALALA hotel in Sopot, Poland. Via Dezeen.

xx-archit Now available, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Lego.

xx-archit KCMODERN, "your one stop shop for all things Modern in Kansas City," is helping to put together the terrific-looking REEL Design Film Series.

xx-archit For Spencer, ask your dad to make you one of these.

xx-archit For MS, Brick Habitats, bricks with built-in gardens and minihomes for animals.

xx-archit Thomas Heatherwick's series of brass newspaper kiosks in London. Fab. Also see his Rolling Bridge. Via City of Sound.

xx-archit The New No. 2's shots of the Burnham pavillions here in Chicago. Via Daily Dose.

xx-archit The Scout's sneak peek of Saipua's new digs including a nice shot of Field Notes.

xx-archit Stunning, the Opposite House in Beijing. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit A striking triplex penthouse apartment in a clock tower overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor has gone on the market for $25 million.

xx-archit "A postcard series documenting the New York city break of some indescribably horrible tourists."

xx-archit The root bridges of Cherrapungee.

xx-archit The Bodegas Ysios Winery by Santiago Calatrava in Laguardia, Spain. Lovely annotated photos.

xx-archit Remodelista's Fire Pit Roundup.

xx-archit The Remota Hotel in Patagonia, Torres del Paine, Puerto Natales-Chile.

xx-archit The roof of the Vancouver Convention Center is now made up of six acres of living, native grassland.

xx-archit The WISA Wooden Design Hotel.

xx-archit Gorgeous, the Universe Beach House.

xx-archit The feral houses of Detroit.

xx-archit For DW: the Blu Apple Yoghurt Cafe in Jakarta, Indonesia.

xx-archit Reconstructing entire cities from images harvested from the web. Rome built in a day.

xx-archit Wow, the Palabritas Beach House in Peru.

xx-archit The gorgeous oak-clad Skybox House.

xx-archit Dinner with amazing views of Paris: the temporary Art Home structure on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo gallery.

xx-archit So you know, what NASA's return to the moon may look like.

xx-archit A vision of the Berlin Wall as a giant garden.

xx-archit Cruise down the Danube on a floating beach.

xx-archit Phoenix-based photographer Michael Lundgren's series Mid-Century Marvels. Growing up, I used to see this one (a bowling alley) and this one (a carpet store, I think) almost every day. Lots more from the mid-century over at the wonderful Modern Phoenix.

xx-archit Second Home, a fab new restaurant space in Denver by Andre Kikoski.

xx-archit Lovely illustrations of NYC storefronts and signage by Bryan Christie. Via the Ministry.

xx-archit A collection of futuristic mobile homes

xx-archit "My grandfather told my dad, 'You'll never get your money out.' The whole family thought my parents were crazy." The Stahl childrens' memories of growing up in Pierre Koenig's Case Study House No. 22 and about who exactly deserves credit for its design.

xx-archit "It is believed to be built in 1845 by Henry Horner, the son of the Late Illinois Gov. The Building maybe the only surviving South Loop property of the Fire of 1871. Throughout the years it has been many things: Red Path Inn, Pickwick Cafe and during Prohibition a secret speakeasy. It's also the smallest Building in the Loop." 22 East Jackson is for sale. Via Neil Arsenty.

xx-archit Get your very own Mid-century modern ranch dollhouse.

xx-archit Stunning modern cabin in the woods.

xx-archit Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House (the Blade Runner house) is for sale.

xx-archit So you know, 11 beautiful train stations that fell to the wrecking ball (and the crappy stuff built in their place).

xx-archit A look inside The Michelberger, a new budget hotel in Berlin designed by Werner Aisslinger. Via Byrdhouse.

xx-archit Across the Great Divide.

xx-archit Beautiful restoration of an 11 x 11 foot cabin in Sugar Creek, Wisconsin.

xx-archit The Architects Journal picks the top 10 Star Wars buildings.

xx-archit Monoscope on the "submerged" offices of Selgas Cano in Madrid.

xx-archit A look inside Slade Architecture's new Barbie flagship store in Shanghai. That's a lot of pink. Via Denver Egotist.

xx-archit A look inside Chinese artists' studios. Cool to see Wang Qingsong's space, where he likely shot Follow Me, which now hangs proudly in my house. Looks like he also has Competition leaning against that back wall.

xx-archit Built in an old concrete silo in Amsterdam, take a gander at the gorgeous offices of Ruigrok/NetPanel.

xx-archit Local note: this Thursday the 11th from 9pm to midnight, IIT and the School of the Art Institute will be hosting Jan Tichy and Bauhaus Lab's multimedia installation Lighting Crown Hall, using "the structure as a massive light box." A CP field trip for sure.

xx-archit Remodelista's roundup of wood panelling done right.

xx-archit My fave new Chicago building isn't actually in Chicago. Andrew Metter's Serta International Center in Hoffman Estates. Kamin's take.

xx-archit Gorgeous mid-century modern home, 26 Oak Mountain Court. Via Design Milk.

xx-archit Posted in response to a totally unnecessary threat from an bloke named Michael. Check this amazing use of the iconic Opera House as a screen for The Sydney Smart Light project. Wow.

xx-archit Made quick a trip to see Rem Koolhaas' CCTV Tower in Beijing on Sunday, but wound up spending more time looking at the fire-destroyed Mandarin Oriental Hotel next door. Had never seen anything that large and that decimated before. Really tragic.

xx-archit Alissa interviews filmmaker Eric Bricker on his new doc on iconic architectural photographer Julius Shulman.

xx-archit Awesome, Lego Architecture.

xx-archit Across the street from the Chrysler Building. Via Your Monkey Called.

xx-archit Local note. Renzo Piano's Modern Wing opens Saturday but you can make a quick visit today with Mr. Lifson.

xx-archit Vauban, Germany. A suburb without cars.

xx-archit Without Bounds or Limits: An online exhibition of the Plan of Chicago. Via GB.

xx-archit If I win the lottery this week, I am buying this house immediately .

xx-archit Architecture's endangered species: National Trust for Historic Preservation just released its list of America's 11 most endangered historic places. Via World Architecture News.

xx-archit Beautifully minimal: House of Inclusion by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects.

xx-archit The Ghost Buildings of 1929, planned architecture projects that were never or only partially built after the last big financial crash.

xx-archit "The punishment for being caught visiting Hashima Island is 30 days in prison followed by immediate deportation. But the other week, after getting up before sunrise and cutting a secret deal with a local fisherman, some friends and I went there." Via Archinect.

xx-archit Lovely sample pages from Ben Murphy's book on The U.N. Building at Daily Icon.

xx-archit A dollhouse for adults? The Shed/Shelf from Studio Gorm brings new meaning to compact storage.

xx-archit Serene, light filled, interconnected Cabins on Hooper's Island by architect David Jameson.

xx-archit Gorgeous, the Archipelago House.

xx-archit Currently on the market in the Bay Area: two houses by iconic arts and crafts architect Bernard Maybeck. In Berkeley, the 1925 Cubby House was Maybeck's garage (where he housed his Packard); later it was converted into a 724-square-foot cottage featuring redwood paneling, a cast-concrete fireplace, and Douglas fir floors. In San Francisco, a much grander Maybeck-designed four-bedroom house in Forest Hills features beamed cathedral ceilings, lead-paned windows, and forested views from every room.

xx-archit This week's announcement of Peter Zumther as the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize is reason enough to re-visit the Zumther-designed Therme Vals Spa in Switzerland.

xx-archit Sexy Italian meets Birkenstocks: Valcucine, maker of sleek, high-end kitchen systems, has been getting attention for pushing the envelope on eco-sustainability in its product design. Next week in Milan, Valcucine will present gReenaisance - the first 100% recyclable kitchen.

xx-archit Selected spreads from Architectural Review 1967-72, art directed by Bill Slack, including these three beauties on the then new John Hancock Center.

xx-archit Design Tavern on Fro Yo and retail interiors. Yowza.

xx-archit Cute and environmentally friendly to boot, Ecopods. Via the newly redesigned Materialicious.

xx-archit Distrito Capital, a sleek new Mexico City hotel, interior design by Joseph Dirand.

xx-archit Lovely, the Putney house in Vermont.

xx-archit Admired recently at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs; wall murals of Montparnasse glazed brick tiles from Design and Direct Source, a new venture from Ann Sacks (founded after she sold Ann Sacks Tile & Stone).

xx-archit The White Hotel in Brussels offers White and Super White rooms and a shop where you can buy objets and furniture by Belgian artists ( Mocus Vivendi Bowls by Pieter Stockmans, the Pile-Poile clock by Thierry Bataille).

xx-archit Some nice night shots of Aqua in Chicago.

xx-archit Spectacular stained glass window designed by Czech artist Alfons Mucha in 1931 for St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. An entirely different but no less spectacular one by Gerhart Richter for the Cologne Cathedral. Make sure to look at the large sizes.

xx-archit The Modern House Estate Agents lists architect-designed property for sale or rent in London and the UK; including the sensational Dairy House by Charlotte Skene-Catling.

xx-archit Wow, not your average hut.

xx-archit For minimalists everywhere: the bare-bones Yawn House by Koizumi Studio in Japan is a great mix of contemporary and traditional Japanese style.

xx-archit A little bit more trivia/detail about the Ref's coin flip above. The street it was shot on is called Alta Vista Terrace or "A Street of 40 Doors" and was created by developer Samuel Gross and architect J.C. Brompton in 1904 to replicate the look and feel of the London district of Mayfair. Lots of photos here.

xx-archit Demolition Art: Seattle architecture firm Hutchison & Maul devised the Hole Houses Project as a temporary exploration of the qualities of light. The architects drilled holes into the facades of two houses slated for demolition and slotted in colored acrylic rods; at night, the houses glowed like a starlit sky. "We had a big party and demolished the building the next day," the architects said.

xx-archit Where there's smoke: Admired recently, the Smoked Oak Dining Table with Oil Finish from German designer Rainer Spehl (creator of the wooden MacBook case) and Smoked Oak Engineered Flooring from German flooring company Parador.

xx-archit Wooden Forest Apartment, gorgeous.

xx-archit Daily Icon on The Metla Timber Building on the campus of the University of Joensuu, by SARC.

xx-archit The restored Thunderbird Hotel in Marfa, TX is the place I'll stay when I finally check it off my list of places to visit. Via Remodelista.

xx-archit Every inch of this place is beautiful and perfect. The 6x11 Alpine Hut in Slovenia by OFIS Architects.

xx-archit Container Cinema.

xx-archit Architect David Mastalka and sculptor Vojtech Bilisic designed a gorgeous tea house for Prague.

xx-archit "Strip away all of the excess and you may just end up living in a box." The Box House Named Paco, ultra-minimal pre-fab living by Jo Nagasaka & Sschemata Architecture Office Ltd.

xx-archit Five architecture firms design buildings using Legos for the Scottish Design Awards. Via Archinect.

xx-archit A big collection of Flickr collections for architecture buffs.

xx-archit "Using authentic blueprints, young builders create foundations and make representations of actual skyscraper--or they can design their own buildings!" Wow, the UberArc set. Via PrairieMod.

xx-archit Designed by architect Gunnar Asplund, the gorgeous Stockholm Public Library. Via Grow a Brain.

xx-archit So you know: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fawcett House in inland northern California is up for sale. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Noted, Sears Tower to become Willis Tower.

xx-archit "We have found the architectural equivalent of the middle finger." In search of " spite houses."

xx-archit Architectural Digest's 100 Great Spaces.

xx-archit I sure hope Dan Meth keeps this series of charts going. #2 is Sit-Com House Floor-Plans which is a sweet follow up to his Trilogy Meter.

xx-archit Absolutely stunning home in Kuala Lumpur. *Sigh*

xx-archit A full scale replica of Le Corbusier's vacation home in Cap-Martin on the Cote D'Azure.

xx-archit Townhouses for bikers.

xx-archit Blocked by a zoning issue, "he built the tallest, most modern home he could design for the space." The 12 Foot Wide Residential Tower.

xx-archit The abandoned Kawaminami shipyard in Japan.

xx-archit For those in the market: the LuxPod has been put up for sale (all 140 sq. feet of it). Via Materialicious.

xx-archit "All over town, there are interesting but unused premises that are being converted into hotel rooms in conjunction with this urban development and architectural project." Brilliant idea, the Pixel Hotel. Via Cool Hunting

xx-archit "A fantastic example of architectural speculation: genuinely massive --and impossibly cantilevered." BldgBlog on Viktor Ramos' final student project at Rice, The Continuous Enclave: Strategies in Bypass Urbanism. Yowza.

xx-archit The Guardian on restoring the Midland Hotel and I Like's recent visit to check it out. Reminds me a little of the great work in restoring The Varden Hotel in Long Beach, which comes highly recommended if you're ever in the area (some additional photos here).

xx-archit A 15,000 sf. cave home in Missouri is for sale on eBay. Via Archinect.

xx-archit "Could nearly 4000 oil rigs soon to be decommissioned in the Gulf of Mexico be retrofitted into an American Dubai of offshore luxury hotels?"

xx-archit One of the finalists in the Evolo Skyscraper Competition is Eric Vergne's spiraling skyscraper farm for a future Manhattan.

xx-archit FLW's Fallingwater "more or less complete" out of Lego. Via Edward Lifson.

xx-archit I'm doing a little work on an idea for Field Notes. This collection never fails to get me in the proper frame of mind, Wheat Kings.

xx-archit 7,300 square foot Prairie style school for a $1. Got an another buck? Buy this one, too.

xx-archit I want one, the weeHouse. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Nice barn remodel.

xx-archit Edward asks, "Do art museums make you climb the walls?"

xx-archit Daily Icon on Arne Jacobsen's Danmarks Nationalbank.

xx-archit Photos of Akkerwinde Bridge in the Netherlands. Via Contemporist.

xx-archit The Frightening Beauty of Bunkers will be of particular interest to aficionados of the doomsday architectural style.

xx-archit "At 755 feet from the ground, it's the highest clock in the world. Its face is 40 feet tall and 100 feet wide. My neighbors can read it from their windows, a mile and a half away, through the fog." The odd, somewhat kitschy clock tower in Moskva-City.

xx-archit So you know, 30 phenomenal and funky modern fireplace designs.

xx-archit Great photos of Hyllie water tower in Sweden.

xx-archit The complete archives of The Concrete Quarterly. As Spencer might say, "awesomeness has arrived." Via Things.

xx-archit Photos from inside the abandoned Uptown Theatre here in Chicago. Drive past it all the time and had no idea how incredible it still looks inside. Let's hope the effort to save it is successful.

xx-archit A durable $5000 house made out of recycled paper.

xx-archit Slade Architecture's magnetic steel wall inside their super modern Kenig House. The wall of shoes is also impressive (though less for the architecture and more for the sheer number of shoes these people own).

xx-archit Intrepid architecture critic Andrew Blum on writing slow.

xx-archit Blair Kamin on how Daniel Burnham's work in Chicago remade the National Mall in Washington D.C..

xx-archit Sliding house? How about a moving church? The opening sequence is absolutely sublime. Stay with it til the end, when the chorus returns.

xx-archit Dezeen on a brilliant residential design from dRMM in London, The Sliding House.

xx-archit On an inauguration episode of public radio show DnA: Design and Architecture, Edward Lifson talks about Obama and Chicago architecture, and Todd Boyd, the "Notorious Ph.D," traces the Obamas' fashion sense back to jazz.

xx-archit JSA Architects' Juvet Landscape Hotel. Where's my room key?

xx-archit "New construction from 1953."

xx-archit Our occasional co-conspirator Edward Lifson has posted a nice preview of Renzo Piano's new Art Institute of Chicago wing that's due to open in May.

xx-archit Images from Simon Henley's book The Architecture of Car Parks.

xx-archit Gorgeous modern home in Brooklyn.

xx-archit "A colony of bats had taken up residence on the third floor so they had to be relocated. That was the easy part." Architect Tracey Overbeck Stead renovates a building in absurdly bad shape.

xx-archit The best houses of all time in L.A.

xx-archit Allison Arieff on abandoned McMansions and outgrown box stores.

xx-archit Who needs marble when you can put Snickers ad on it?

xx-archit "A door in the woods." A short film about a Long Island writing studio designed by Andrew Berman.

xx-archit For BB: a tour of Zooey Deschanel's home studio. Though he'll probably want to just skip to the photo shoot outtakes.

xx-archit Getting quickly married in style on the cheap no longer requires a flight to Las Vegas: the newly renovated Manhattan Marriage Bureau.

xx-archit Chicago and its Architecture Through the Eyes of Google Books, a collection of great old architecture book scans.

xx-archit Expanding Architecture: Conversations on Design as Activism, a multi-city salon organized by Metropolis.

xx-archit A tour of architecture firm Fantastic Norway's rural Trondheim Cabin. Via Remodelista.

xx-archit The Ultimate House, clips and photos of some of the world's most impressive examples of modern residential architecture.

xx-archit Cindy LaFerle's short personal story of restoring Frank Lloyd Wright's Carl Schultz house in western Michigan.

xx-archit Top 10 awe-inspiring treehouse designs.

xx-archit A new hostel in Stockholm in a converted jumbo jet.

xx-archit Photos, drawings and technical details on Lovegrove Studio 2's Alpine Capsule project.

xx-archit Inspiring illustrated post by Peacay on Art Deco California and the sketches of S. Charles Lee.

xx-archit Underground, automated bike parking in Tokyo. Sweet!

xx-archit An architectural firm believes backyard swimming pools should be emptied and transformed into subterranean granny flats. Via Worldchanging.

xx-archit Nice redesign of Waingels College using only timber construction.

xx-archit Great photos of old Siberian houses. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit On a day like this, with the wind chill down to just two degrees, a trip to the world's largest swimming pool in Chile's southern coast sounds just about right.

xx-archit James Langenheim's "Theme Building" at LAX scaffolded. More on the iconic building here.

xx-archit Plans for the redesign of Slussen, Stockholm's city center.

xx-archit Stunning, the Sensamare bathroom. *Sigh*

xx-archit Two panoramas from inside the newly remodeled National Museum of American History.

xx-archit A photo essay on what happens when big box retailers close and their gigantic buildings get re-purposed: For Sale: 200,000 Square Foot Box.

xx-archit Related to MS's last. Video scenes from Holl's Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins in KC. Cool in pictures. Sublime in person.

xx-archit "For three decades Steven Holl has used watercolor--drawn each morning, before the deadlines kick in--as a springboard toward the creation of architecture." Really great inspirational peek at a creative mind at work, The Painted Building. Be sure to view the slideshow of the drawings. Lovely.

xx-archit Inhotim, a gorgeous Brazilian museum complex surrounded by tropical gardens.

xx-archit Jason Fried points us to a set of Mies Van Der Rohe photos in the new LIFE Magazine archives. Very nice, especially this one of the man.

xx-archit From planning to sketches to building to completion, everything you need to know about the Yellow Treehouse Cafe. Via Inhabitat.

xx-archit The renovated Tel Aviv Port.

xx-archit The Daily Icon on "Wheat Kings," spectacular images selected and annotated from the I Love Grain Elevators Flickr pool.

xx-archit Oobject picks their favorite moving building facades, complete with video of said movements in action.

xx-archit "We went to see it that first night, and I thought, This is the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life." The story of restoring Astor Courts, the 40,000 square foot house designed by Stanford White in 1902.

xx-archit Wow. Some really strange buildings.

xx-archit Totally creepy, a collection of abandoned hotels, hospitals, and churches.

xx-archit Got 35 million dollars laying around? This could be yours.

xx-archit Winners of AIA Chicago's Awards for Excellence in Interior Architecture.

xx-archit The Jested Telecommunications Tower and Hotel. A short film from the V&A's Cold War Modern exhibition about an iconic Eastern Bloc structure, built in 1963.

xx-archit "Based on our data, it would appear that the typical architect dies from heart failure at the age of 73." Death Does Come, of This We Are Sure. An interesting look at the deaths of famous architects. Via Archinect.

xx-archit The sleek Garden and Sea House.

xx-archit Fab, a temple made with over a million recycled bottles.

xx-archit The black and white Hotel Habita Monterrey, designed by Joseph Dirand. That hallway is amazing.

xx-archit Sarah Vowell on Louis Sullivan and Chicago architecture. Via The New Modernist.

xx-archit Digging JetBlue's T5 at JFK, especially the screens. Via Airbag.

xx-archit Michelle Kaufmann modernizes the farmhouse, mkHearth.

xx-archit The Walking House in action.

xx-archit I'm sure the view is breathtaking but I'd just pass out.

xx-archit Holy cow, inside Terminal 3 in Dubai's International Airport.

xx-archit The winning design for the Sherwood Forest visitors center.

xx-archit Contemporary movie theaters are by and large, sterile, boring places. DTA Architects is having none of that. Check their spectacular Light House Cinema in Dublin, listed under "Public Projects." More at CubeMe.

xx-archit "Five new towers have been proposed for the Middle East recently with each claiming the mantle 'world's tallest building,' but which is likely to be built?"

xx-archit A series of tunnels that run underneath central London and were used for communications during the Cold War have gone on sale for an estimated £5m.

xx-archit Elite Laundry, then and now.

xx-archit The Monte Rosa alpine hut.

xx-archit Stunning, the Johanna house. Via Design Milk.

xx-archit Architect Francois de Menil's gorgeous OneTwo Townhouse. Make sure to check out the photos.

xx-archit Nakheel aims for the sky, announcing a new Dubai building over 1km tall. Yowza.

xx-archit House on the beach. *Sigh*

xx-archit "In the centre of Copenhagen, on the sixth floor of the Royal Hotel, a single room preserves a microcosm of the definitive masterwork of Danish architect and furniture designer Arne Jacobsen." Room 606.

xx-archit There's still time to book your stay at Jan Konings' Hotel Experimenta. Check out the flyer for more details (pdf).

xx-archit The Casa de Cobre house in Talca, Chile. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Short video tour of the Reversible Destiny Lofts in Tokyo. More info on them here.

xx-archit Enter the World of Eichler Design.

xx-archit Collection of photos of the winners of The Chicago Anthenaeum's International Architecture Awards.

xx-archit Fab, we need more stores like this.

xx-archit A pyramid for Paris. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Gorgeous, created for the new Crawley library in the UK, typographic tree columns. Via Pan Dan.

xx-archit House N in Oyta, Japan by Sou Fujimoto Architects.

xx-archit The 72-Room Bohemian Dream House. Amazing. Don't miss the photos.

xx-archit Los Angeles under construction.

xx-archit A fabulous place to swim, Les Bains des Docks.

xx-archit FLW on "What's My Line?"

xx-archit Everything you ever wanted to know about Sears mail-order homes. Via Tiny House Design.

xx-archit Seven rotating houses and towers.

xx-archit Modernist gas stations.

xx-archit Simply stunning conversion of a church to a home.

xx-archit After reading JC's post yesterday on the moiré façade, I was reminded of the fascinating Café Wall Illusion (check out the applet), first noticed on a café wall in Bristol.

xx-archit City of Sound on a fascinating moire facade on a school for girls in Brisbane which changes as you move past it. Here it is demonstrated with a model created by the architects.

xx-archit Designboom on the Herzog and de Mueron design for 56 Leonard Street, their first residential tower in NYC. Fab.

xx-archit Ouch. Via Edward.

xx-archit "The old China Town renders all of our cities boring and alike. It is nothing more than restaurant streets and fake traditional buildings representing a kitsch image of contemporary China, with no real life inside." The solution? Superstar, a mobile Chinatown.

xx-archit So you know, 70 amazing houses from around the world.

xx-archit Nice roundup of some natural swimming pools.

xx-archit Related to below: the place Calexico is playing at in that video is The Hotel Congress. Spent more than a few hours in their Tap Room way back when. If you're in the area, don't skip a visit. Lots more photos here.

xx-archit Nice water tower house.

xx-archit So you know, 10 homes that defy gravity.

xx-archit Modernism in Australia.

xx-archit Stair porn, totally SFW.

xx-archit The House Vote, "a daily ballot on furnishings, architecture, and residential design." Via Remodelista.

xx-archit Moving the Richard Neutra Maxwell house. Via Things Magazine.

xx-archit Nice vacation home. Via WorldChanging.

xx-archit Vegas Dream Projects and Failed Renderings, the buildings you'll never see on the strip, like the Beverly Hillbillies Resort and The Moon.

xx-archit X House. Gorgeous.

xx-archit Controversy over counters and cash registers in Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum entry hall.

xx-archit The beautiful Kielder Observatory and a visit to check it out.

xx-archit Interiors from MUFG, a Japanese Bank. How can I open an account?

xx-archit The Shipping Container Hotel opened this weekend in London. More info here. Via Arbroath.

xx-archit Manhattan in miniature using balsa wood, Xacto blades and nail files.

xx-archit The Extra Small (XS) House. A shotgun-style 500 square foot home constructed on a budget of just $25,000.

xx-archit "How Alfred Hitchcock and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer put a Frank Lloyd Wright house on top of Mount Rushmore in spite of common sense, Frank Lloyd Wright and the United States Government. Sort of." Via Daily Icon.

xx-archit The Dome House. Cute, sign me up. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Vintage color photos of US cities, a thread at SkyscraperCity.

xx-archit The Allied Health Care building, "2001 meets late 19th century Victorian."

xx-archit Beautiful photographic essays on specific buildings by Kim Høltermand.

xx-archit 224 Buildings from 43 countries have made it on to the first ever World Architecture Festival Awards shortlist.

xx-archit Villa Peet.

xx-archit Gorgeous 24-hour time-lapse of the Uspenskiy Cathedral in Ryazan, Russia. Via Rashomon.

xx-archit The new pavilion at the Kivik Art Centre in Sweden.

xx-archit Great read, VF looks at the incredible changes in Beijing in preparation for the Olympics, Mao to Wow.

xx-archit Some very cool office spaces.

xx-archit Wallpaper Q&A with hero architect Tadao Ando.

xx-archit Nina Tolstrup's Beach Hut and how she built it.

xx-archit The NYT takes a look at how China's unabashed embrace of new architecture is changing the face of Beijing. A must view accompaniment is the interactive map with commentary.

xx-archit Pentagram Architects' James Biber's new Harley-Davidson Museum opens Saturday in Milwaukee.

xx-archit Estes/Twombly Architects' " Quiet Modernism," as they call it. Via Remodelista.

xx-archit Relink by request.. Hotel Everland, Paris. A one-room, super-mod hotel, temporarily situated on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Check the visite virtuelle and background information in English.

xx-archit This floating swimming pool in Berlin, by AMP, looks even cooler in the winter. Via Daily Dose.

xx-archit Arch Daily's roundup of their favorite architecture blogs.se-07.08.08

xx-archit A Richard Britt home in Scottsdale is up for sale. Sweet.

xx-archit Passed by the renovations all the time in my old neighborhood, but was too shy to poke my head in to take a look. Luckily, the internet has provided: Inside the Krause Music Store, Louis Sullivan's last building and now a design studio.

xx-archit Seven color tile mosaic artwork in the restrooms of the restaurant Tranan, in Stockholm.

xx-archit Remodelista visits some gorgeous barns.

xx-archit "The interior and exterior of the structure are covered with translucent, orange fabric so the building appears solid in daylight but reveals its internal structure when illuminated at night." The Zenith music hall in Strasbourg, France.

xx-archit Geoff on RoboVault.

xx-archit So you know, some superb examples of architectural adaptive reuse. Seriously, a plane?

xx-archit Not your average cabin. Via Materialicious

xx-archit There's still time to plan a summer road trip to Spring Green, Wisconsin and The House on the Rock. More of this one-of-a-kind location from Mark at WFMU.

xx-archit Taipei 101's 728-ton stabilizing ball in action.

xx-archit 360 of Tadao Ando's new Shibuya Station.

xx-archit Four ancient colorful cities.

xx-archit Kuro by Takuya Hosokai and Hiromasa Mori.

xx-archit Right in my parent's hood, the gorgeous Planar house. Via Materialicious

xx-archit A subtle way to countdown to an impending deadline? Realities:united's installation at ArtistsSpace. Check the video.

xx-archit Gorgeous, the Ring house. Via Coolboom.

xx-archit Explore forgotten Detroit. Via BoN.

xx-archit A house on the road to Farellones in Chili, by Nunez & Valdes. Via Notcot.

xx-archit Great article profiling the Dutch architecture firm MDRV, Crowded House. Slideshow of some of the buildings discussed in the article here.

xx-archit The electric home of the future from 1939.

xx-archit The most awesome tree houses in Germany.

xx-archit Sweet, love this amazing vacation home in Greece.

xx-archit Sweet, the bungalow in a box. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Yes, sheep in the Netherlands have a cooler house than you.

xx-archit The estates and villas of Nurai located off the coast of Abu Dhabi.

xx-archit The Kew Gardens Treetop Walkway is now open.

xx-archit Pentagram Paper 38: "The story of the design, construction and renovation of Richard Neutra's 1934 Sten-Frenke House... complete with original estimates, change orders and punchlists." Fab.

xx-archit London's Tower Bridge on Twitter. Via Waxy.

xx-archit Flip Flop Flying loves architect Oscar Niemeyer, and what's not to love about the Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi?

xx-archit A house made out of pallets.

xx-archit Neat four story home that's just eight feet wide.

xx-archit Um, yeah for me? Not ever.

xx-archit Pictures of the world's first billion dollar home. Yes, I said billion.

xx-archit Centerpiece of the 1958 World's Fair, The Atomium in Brussels is fifty. Via The Cartoonist.

xx-archit Now you can pretend you're part of the rat pack.

xx-archit The five winners of the Great Indoors Award 2007. Make sure to scroll down to the R Lopez de Heredia Winery visitor centre, tasting room and cellar by Zaha Hadid.

xx-archit Geoff on space as a symphony of turning off sounds.

xx-archit So cool, a camera obscura that you stand in. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit Hotels in the Afterlife, half-finished resorts abandoned on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

xx-archit Mini Moscow. Gorgeous.

xx-archit Interior renderings of the 100K House.

xx-archit Nice read on lessons learned from 1960s-70s counterculture architecture.

xx-archit Creatively converted sea forts of Great Britain. Via C-Monster.

xx-archit Abandoned mid-century Taiwanese vacation homes.

xx-archit Mile-high skyscrapers and floating cities that never were.

xx-archit A " a collection of promised skylines we never got to see." Frankly, that mile-high skyscraper in Chicago scares the beejeezus out of me. Via PrairieMod.

xx-archit Sweet, the mod-prebuilt house. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit C-1 Office in Tokyo by Curiosity.

xx-archit Remodelista's Stairway Roundup. And dozens more over at Pushpullbar.

xx-archit So you know, 10 annoyingly brilliant office interiors.

xx-archit This is what I love about design in The Netherlands. Via swissmiss.

xx-archit If I lived here I'd never leave the house. Stunning.

xx-archit The plans for the new Guggenheim museum in Lithuania are out of this world. Via PrairieMod.

xx-archit Plans for the frighteningly pointy Universitas Leadership Sanctuary, a "private getaway for stressed-out presidents and prime ministers who want to 'reconnect with their unique purpose in life.'" Something feels a little hoax-like about this.

xx-archit Apropos of nothing. Parking garage, looking south along 3rd Ave. between Stewart and Pine Streets at night, Seattle, Undated. Thanks Geoff.

xx-archit The stunning Strata Hotel in the Italian Dolomites.

xx-archit "Oh yeah, did I tell you our new offices were in a Tube carriage?" Set of offices built inside old subway cars. Via I Like.

xx-archit Homes that Defy Gravity.

xx-archit Wallace: You feel nothing when you go into St. Patrick's? FLW: Regret. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Mike Wallace Interview. Required viewing. Via Mr. Lifson.

xx-archit Related to the last, seen at Steven Holl's sublime Bloch Building at N-A in sunny Kansas City. Going later to see it at night.

xx-archit "I don't want to encourage more cars onto the roads, but if topology and beauty mean anything to you, get out there and enjoy I-95/695 now. It may soon be too late."

xx-archit The Art Institute of Chicago's Chicago Architects Oral History Project.

xx-archit Lovely, the Travella House.

xx-archit While chatting about how excited we are to be holding our Third Seed Conference in Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall, we got to wondering if we could do future Seeds only in his buildings. Maybe the next one could be at the Seagram Building, Neue Nationalgalerie or Toronto Dominion Center?

xx-archit "Q: Would you like to design in Chicago? A: Sure, sure. It's territory chosen by the gods of architecture." Blair Kamin interviews Jean Nouvel.

xx-archit "Each entry will be judged on innovation, aesthetics and "wobble factor". Sounds fab, get your entry in for the Architectural Jelly Design Competition.

xx-archit The Pritzker Prize for Architecture has been awarded to Frenchman Jean Nouvel. When something big happens in architecture it's usually a good idea to check with Edward Lifson.

xx-archit Back from a few days in New Mexico, and I'm still thinking about this amazing adobe church, San Francisco de Asis in Rancho de Taos. I failed to get a decent shot of the famous back of the church, but how could I possibly go up against Ansel Adams, or Paul Strand, or Laura Gilpin? What an amazing building, amazing images.

xx-archit "This is our story about building a vacation house - not the traditional wooden 'swiss chalet'- style weekend cabin - but a modern almost all glass and steel house.." Constructing a steel and glass cottage.

xx-archit Link of the month. A movie about a Rem Koolhaas designed "transforming" house in France. Houselife. Kubrickian, and not just because of the waltz on the track. Thanks Marshall.

xx-archit Business Week on the transformation of Chicago's Merchandise Mart into the largest green building in the world.

xx-archit Serero is extending the Eiffel Tower observation deck for the 120th anniversary.

xx-archit Architecture in Tokyo, Omotesando Steet II.

xx-archit The Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid has made its debut in Hong Kong.

xx-archit The Gateshead Get Carter Car Park Demolition Project, attempting to collect the history of the famous film location before it's destroyed. Via I Like.

xx-archit 100 villas, 100 days, 100 architects.

xx-archit Following JC's post yesterday, here's more about the Rem Koolhaas Death Star in Dubai.

xx-archit Slide show of the soon-to-be-opened Terminal 5 at JFK, which wraps around Eero Saarinen's iconic TWA Flight Center.

xx-archit "Take the fused nomadic home designs of the yurt, tipi, and igloo and slip the straitjacket of suburban values, materials, and methods of construction over them." The Suburban Tipi.

xx-archit With a total of 300 square feet, it's more like a play house than a real house. An itty bitty tiny house in Toronto.

xx-archit "In the green landscape, the library rises up eight stories, clad in black natural stone." Giancarlo Mazzanti's Biblioteca Parque Espana.

xx-archit Sweet, the pre-fab Nomad Home.

xx-archit "The spread of tuberculosis in Finland between the wars led to the construction of a number of sanatoria throughout the country. One of these was the Varsinais-Suomi tuberculosis sanatorium which had broad-based financial support from 48 municipalities and four towns. Paimio was chosen as the location for the sanatorium and there was a competition for its design, which was resolved at the end of January 1929." The history and design of the Paimio Sanatorium designed by Alvar Aalto.

xx-archit Totally need one of these for the deck this summer.

xx-archit Redesigning the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo. "At night, a focused beam of white light will project from a viewing platform at the jump's apex to suggest that Holmenkollen stretches infinitely to the sky."

xx-archit Neat-o: Forgotten Chicago. The highlights are too numerous to list, just dig in.

xx-archit Eero Saarinen's spectacular IMB Research Lab in Yorktown Heights NJ is empty and for sale.

xx-archit NYT Mag feature on the architectural office of David Yocum and Brian Bell, created in a former automobile electrical-parts business in a transitional part of Atlanta. So cool. Here's the firm's site.

xx-archit The Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León by Mansilla-Tuñón.

xx-archit "Nearly all of the buildings are low rise, most of houses are detached and have a small garden." Iceland Architecture. Via 2 or 3 Things.

xx-archit The folks over at Dezeen have some photos of the recently renovated Rossio railway station in Lisbon.

xx-archit Fab home for sale.

xx-archit Nikolai Sutyagin's homemade wooden skyscraper.

xx-archit Living in a fairy-tale of a shell.

xx-archit Great photos of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.

xx-archit Sublime, JaG's House. Via Materialicious.

xx-archit I'd vote for the "apple turnover" moniker over "taco" or "clamshell": Living in a Sculpture, the Sculptured House by Charles Deaton. Here are some more photos.

xx-archit 63.02°

xx-archit Buy your very own Richard Meier designed bathroom. Via Remodelista.

xx-archit Gorgeous pre-fab homes from Brio54. Via Inhabitat.

xx-archit Gregory's got a swinging pad.

xx-archit Serpents, whales, sharks and sea shells. The bioarchitecture of Javier Senosiain.

xx-archit Disney's bringing back the House of the Future concept. Here's what the first one looked like.

xx-archit Pruned on the subterranean farms of Tokyo.

xx-archit The Architecture of Polygamy. Found after a conversation last night about driving through the very strange polygamist town of Colorado City, AZ as a kid. Every house there looks like this.

xx-archit Not only stunning in it's design, it is a house after my own heart. Click through the photos until you get to the one that shows you the outdoor movie theater.

xx-archit The Guardian takes a look at Beijing's Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium.

xx-archit Coolest bird feeder ever.

xx-archit Walk the Bloch with Steven Holl, architect of the Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in KC. Via Edward Lifson.

xx-archit Who wouldn't want to live in a tree?

xx-archit The perfect little prefab home from Swedish firm Grasshopper.

xx-archit Lovely, I think the K3 actually might fit on my deck, the KitHaus.

xx-archit Container House overlooking San Francisco. Via Inhabitat.

xx-archit Custom prefab homes by Marmol Radziner. Check out the Utah House 1.

xx-archit Sami Rintala's gorgeous Boxhome.

xx-archit Fab, if I checked in, I'd never leave. The Ace Hotel.

xx-archit Beijing's National Aquatics Centre, aka The Water Cube, debuts.

xx-archit "As they approach the bottom of the staircase, spotlights light up underneath their car, which begins to rotate on a platform." Slideshow on the BMW Delivery Center in Munich.

xx-archit The 84 Square Foot Dream Home. Via 2 or 3 Things.

xx-archit Seoul's $31B Yongsan international business district. Simply gorgeous.

xx-archit Troika's 'Cloud', a digital sculpture at Heathrow for British Airways. So cool. Lots more on how it works here and in this illustrated post at Pixelsumo.

xx-archit A builder, an architect and a developer attempt to build a house that is both modern and green for just 100K.

xx-archit Falconcity of Wonders.

xx-archit The Filberg House designed by Arthur Erickson is for sale. Stunning.

xx-archit Is it a house? Is it a tent? Looks to be a bit of both. .

xx-archit A proposal for urban renewal in Atlanta as told by an eleven year old girl, presented in comic book form, enter Willa's Wonderland.

xx-archit Michelle Kaufmann's mkSolaire is being constructed at the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago.

xx-archit Simple, clean, modern, gorgeous, The Ranch, Refined. Thanks Marshall.

xx-archit Most people have a tv and a couch. Some people like a little more for their movie viewing experience, 10 Stunning Ultra-Geeky Home Cinemas.

xx-archit Local note: Hubbard Street Dance company at Crown Hall this Sunday. "A collaborative presentation of movement and design in one of Chicago's landmark buildings." More info here.

xx-archit A compilation of ambitious ocean arcology concepts.

xx-archit The world's largest swimming pool. Dubai? No, Chile.

xx-archit Swatch Group's new Ginza, Japan HQ has seven shops on seven floors served by seven elevators. A bit on the building from Time Mag by Jean Snow.

xx-archit Remains of the abandoned Amtrak Station on 17th Street in Oakland. Via gmt+9 (-15).

xx-archit National Geographic explores the ghost towns of North Dakota, The Emptied Prairie. Check out the photo gallery here.

xx-archit "The utopian ideal of the cultural building as playground." Things Magazine on Cedric Price's 1964 Fun Palace.

xx-archit Check out FAR's Wall House in Santiago de Chile. (Select specific project).

xx-archit So cute. The Wee House.

xx-archit Fab prefab from 1971 by Matti Suuronen. Via ffff.

xx-archit Port-A-Bach, a portable cabin by Atelier Workshop. Via The Style Files.

xx-archit Lovely, the official school of languages in Spain. Via Coolboom.

xx-archit Not your average treehouses.

xx-archit Wow, modern home designed by architect Jorn Utzon is up for sale.

xx-archit Wow. 5 Unbelievably Cool Research Facilities.

xx-archit If you're looking for JC this morning, he's over here.

xx-archit 7 Abandoned Wonders of America.

xx-archit A large collection of photos of some of the most beautiful libraries in the world.

xx-archit Finding (and buying) a 16-room mansion in the Bronx, untouched for decades. Via 2 or 3 Things.

xx-archit Panoramic QTVR of the Sainte Chapelle de Paris. Magnificent. Via Edward Lifson, who will be giving a "working lunch" talk about Mies van der Rohe and Rem Koolhaas at our Seed Conference, a week from tomorrow. 4 seats are left.

xx-archit Neat little animation showing the construction of Gyre, a retail center in Tokyo.

xx-archit Wired's got some great options for modular, pre-fab housing, Small and Fabulous; Modular Living as It Should Be.

xx-archit Check out the latest images of the innovative Antarctic Halley research station.

xx-archit Simply fabulous, The Alan Family house. Via MoCo Loco.

xx-archit "Where others saw a big old barn, they saw a home."

xx-archit Simply spectacular, and I'm not sure that even does it justice. The Baltazar Residence. Thanks Marshall.

xx-archit 140 square feet of simplicity, The Shack at Hinkle Farm.

xx-archit In the words of Eliza Doolittle, "All I want is a room somewhere..." Loverly.

xx-archit Stunning, Chapel of Porciuncula de la Milagrosa in La Calera, Columbia.

xx-archit "The World of Tomorrow." Visions of New York City in 2108.

xx-archit The fantastic (as in fantasy) architectural drawings of Hugh Ferris who never designed a noteworthy building but influenced a generation of architects. And sci-fi film art directors too. More here.

xx-archit The Solar Wind Pavilion.

xx-archit Crystal Island, the world's largest single building. More photos at Inhabitat.

xx-archit A Clinic for the Exhausted by Michael Spooner is the winner of the 2007 Architecture Australia prize for unbuilt work.

xx-archit The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas by Kyu Sung Woo.

xx-archit Now this is my kind of cabin in the woods. Wow.

xx-archit Yes Santa, what I really want is a tipi.

xx-archit The Brains Behind Billionaire Homes. Via Archinect.

xx-archit I bike past this innovative trailer home all the time and have been wondering about it, then suddenly came across the recent GOOD magazine article. Good to know.

xx-archit Tangentially related to the last. Space houses on Earth. Sweet.

xx-archit Boing Boing on Disneyland's Monsanto Plastic House of the Future video.

xx-archit From DF: America's 20 Ugliest College Campuses. While Gruber agrees with #1 (His alma mater, Drexel), we have to take serious issue with #9, The Illinois Institute of Technology. Even if amazing works by Helmut Jahn, Rem Koolhaus, and Mies van der Rohe don't rate with Campussqueeze, they sure do with us.

xx-archit The Vanishing Point, "...worlds that are embedded in our urban environment yet are decidedly removed from the collective experience of civilized life." Found among other things.

xx-archit This amazing book store in Maastricht, Netherlands was retrofitted into an 800 year old church. If that's your sort of thing, you might want to revisit The Nonist's Red Hot Library Smut.

xx-archit 1960 BBC film on the construction of Television Center at Sheperds Bush. Of particular note, the most excellent soundtrack by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Via Cheeseford.

xx-archit Just opened in Innsbruck, the Nordpark Cable Railway stations by Zaha Hadid Architects.

xx-archit Creative Review on Dexia Tower in Brussels, "38 floors and 150,000 LEDs equals one hell of a light show."

xx-archit Looking for a new home? Why not live in a dome?

xx-archit The 2007 winners of The Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition for architectural drawing & illustration.

xx-archit Skiing in Texas. Via TH.

xx-archit Definitely one of the more interesting teahouses I've seen.

xx-archit Local note. Mies' Social Services Administration Building at the University of Chicago is scheduled to be restored and renovated. The building is a beautiful cousin to our favorite structure anywhere.

xx-archit Metal Shutter Houses by Shigeru Ban Architects.

xx-archit Sweet, something nice to pick up, if you have forty million in change.

xx-archit The world's tallest structure of playing cards.

xx-archit The Light of Mies van der Rohe, an animated computer modeling of 24 hours of light on Mies' unbuilt "Courtyard House with Curved Elements." Via Edward.

xx-archit São Paulo ad agency Loducca's new digs.

xx-archit Walking around Culver City with Geoff Manaugh, proprietor of BldgBlog.

xx-archit "An old, half flooded and fire damaged derelict mansion built on a small island in the Hudson River." Exploring Bannerman's Island with photographer Shaun O'Boyle.

xx-archit 123 photos of the prewar work of Mies van der Rohe were auctioned in Berlin yesterday. Fab. More information at Kosmograd. Via Edward, of course.

xx-archit "A laboratory for daylight, and an exploration of how a different awareness of time informs place and experience." Carrie Burke's Timepiece House.

xx-archit London's Olympic Stadium.

xx-archit Le Corbusier-The Art of Architecture is currently showing at the Vitra Design Museum. You can view three sections of the show via video here. Fantastic.

xx-archit The architecture of car parks.

xx-archit Hotel Everland has migrated to the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and will be perched on top through December 2008.

xx-archit A 1965 film on Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City. Via Chicago Carless.

xx-archit Willy Wonka step aside. The Michel Rojkind designed Nestle Chocolate Factory Museum in Mexico.

xx-archit Slideshow of the new building at The Prado by architect Rafael Moneo. Thanks Mom.

xx-archit Architectural Record takes a look at the new MCA Denver.

xx-archit One of the highlights for me at yesterday's Seed Conference was Edward Lifson's "working lunch" presentation on Mies, IIT and especially Crown Hall. Thanks a million Edward. Here's how we feel about that building.

xx-archit "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast." The Guardian gives us recommended places to view Parisian achitecture.

xx-archit A model of Scrooge McDuck's money bin. Via Fun Forever.

xx-archit "Where Gods Yearn for Long-Lost Treasures." Interesting article on the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.

xx-archit Cabinet Magazine's Minor History of Giant Spheres. But one is conspicuous by its absence.

xx-archit Inhabitat visits the Solar Decathalon 2007.

xx-archit $50,000 a day? To sleep in a toliet?

xx-archit Casa de Pedra, a homemade house made from things thrown away, including cell phones and old printers. Kinda looks like that house in Paradise Valley, doesn't it MS?

xx-archit For Flight of the Conchords fans: the history of bandshells in NY. Via I Like.

xx-archit Hotel Q on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Found among a slew of other cool projects featured in the Convertible City exhibition.

xx-archit Take a gander at the process of building Ed's Shed Via Archinect.

xx-archit Skinny Houses.

xx-archit For Stephane, a short film on van der Rohe's Crown Hall at IIT, the spiritual home of The MoOM and just across the street from the venue for our Seed Conference, later in the month.

xx-archit "An egg-shaped recording studio suspended from the top of a 600ft luxury apartment block was unveiled as part of the rock band U2's plans for a skyscraper that will dominate Dublin." Lord Foster and U2 team up to build the U2 Tower.

xx-archit The Stanley Tigerman designed Pacific Garden Mission is open for business. More info here.

xx-archit In Search of Lost Vanguards, Excavation and Space Exploration in Constructivist Architecture. Great essay. Via Mr Gibson.

xx-archit Wow. The Aatrial House in Poland. More about it here.

xx-archit Simply gorgeous. Rocio Romero's pre-fab LV Home Series.

xx-archit Sweet, not your average playhouse.

xx-archit Representing a wide variety of creative vertical transportation, these interesting elevators would be a blast to try. Via Chris Glass.

xx-archit Cognitive Dwelling, Paul Maich's terrific project for architecture school in the form of a murder mystery.

xx-archit Before you gag at the extraordinary price tag, bear in mind that it includes Porsche Cayenne Turbo plus driver, personal manager and housekeeper, New Zealand wines and French champagnes and meals prepared by resident chef. Twenty six thousand dollars a night. Nice vacation if you can get it.

xx-archit Stunning. Photos of the new National Grand Theater in Beijing.

xx-archit A short history of Alison and Peter.

xx-archit Will Pearson's London Photography is a must-see. His panoramic series for a new development on the South Bank of the Thames, opposite the Tower of London, basically depicts the future I've been waiting for, More London.

xx-archit Beautiful photosets of The McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT by Rem Koolhaas. This is the venue for our Seed Conference on October 29th where this guy will be keeping an eye on things. Only slightly related, here's my kids there, the day before the building opened in 2005.

xx-archit For my bro-in-law Matt, down in Phoenix, Notes On Becoming A Famous Architect.

xx-archit A 26 day event in NYC celebrating art and architecture kicked off with an opening party in the awesome Ring Dome.

xx-archit Okay, how do I meet these people and get invited to watch the movie here?

xx-archit Protecting Edward's view.

xx-archit Reconsidering the Role of Photography in the Survey of Modern Architecture.

xx-archit "But smart design is part of the overall message: This store has good taste, and by extension so do you."

xx-archit From houses to sports centers, Building Underground in London.

xx-archit La Cite de l'Architecture et du Patrimone is open again in Paris after a huge renovation. Find out more here.

xx-archit The NYT on Arcosanti.

xx-archit "It's about applying architectural thinking to nonarchitectural fields," Rem Koolhaas' AMO does more than just architecture. Via Archinect.

xx-archit New over at the TMN galleries, Architecture of Authority.

xx-archit Wow, take a look at the first photos of Lord Norman Foster's Beijing airport terminal. Much improved over the original, I can say having been there. More information here.

xx-archit Reminder: Airing locally tonight, check your local PBS listings for Saved From The Wrecking Ball. A documentary on Mies Van Der Rohe's Farnsworth house.

xx-archit Next time I'm in SF, will check out 1234 Howard Street. Some background on the house here. Wish I could be there this weekend so I could take the AIA Living Homes tour.

xx-archit Related to the last, Jason's visit to the Farnsworth House and SD's to Crown Hall on the IIT Campus.

xx-archit Check your local PBS listings for Saved From The Wrecking Ball. A documentary on Mies Van Der Rohe's Farnsworth house, looks to be a must see, click the video to catch a glimpse.

xx-archit Edward Lifson on the restoration of Louis Sullivan's last building, The Krause Music Store on North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago. Spectacular.

xx-archit Unveiled August 25th, Gerhard Richter's design for the mammoth stained-glass window of the Cologne Cathedral. Via La Petite Claudine.

xx-archit Twin Drive-In, Independence, Missouri.

xx-archit Shibam, Yemen. Home to the world's oldest, surviving skyscrapers?

xx-archit "At the most banal level, this is a box on the rocks, a seemingly simple pavilion of glass and concrete panel-board perched on a headland pointing toward Nanaimo. What makes the house truly modernist in creative spirit, rather than neo-modernist in style, is its space-making and details." Lovely.

xx-archit Bldgblog's Interview with Michael Cook, urban explorer. Via Transbuddha.

xx-archit The Single Hauz from Front Architects. Perfect for the CP field offices. I call dibs on the one with the boat.

xx-archit Nice interview with Rem Koolhaas

xx-archit Photos of the new Nestlé Chocolate Museum in Mexico City.

xx-archit The Best House in Paris. Gorgeous.

xx-archit "In 2006 Tempohousing, under the local brand name of Keetwonen, finished a 1000 unit student housing project." The catch? It's made of modified shipping containers.

xx-archit I'll have a Royale with cheese.

xx-archit Neat home inside an old water tower. Via TH.

xx-archit Visions of Heaven: The Dome in European Architecture, photographs by David Stephenson.

xx-archit Fun browse, location options for film and photo at Shootspaces. Via ToRC.

xx-archit Kitsune Noir on the cool Mykita eyewear shop in Berlin.

xx-archit All roads lead to Mies. Two recent things, a soon to be announced project with Jason and Carlos and also a contribution for Computer Arts Magazine, have led me back to Crown Hall on the campus of IIT. Last summer Steve was led there too. He brought a video camera.

xx-archit Are You Done in There? We need more public toilets.

xx-archit The impressive Bay Bridge repair process, replacing a football field sized portion all in just three days.

xx-archit Headline of the day, Balloon ban wipes smile off clown's face. Which brings me to post a rehearsal video of one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands, Dear Madame Barnum by XTC.

xx-archit Home Sweet Earthship. Spencer, doesn't this look a bit like Luke Skywalker's house? Via Popgadget.

xx-archit "From the roof deck of Sherman Ochs's Mexican-style villa atop a breezy bluff, the entire island of Jalisco, population about 20, spreads out below. It is a picturesque place of palm trees, lush lawns and near-cloudless skies. And, of course, there are the perfect sands around the lagoon, where residents grind their perfect bodies together in an N.C.L., or Naked Conga Line."

xx-archit Renderings of Transbay Terminal. Wow.

xx-archit A bit of musing about Futurist-inspired petrol stations.

xx-archit Architect Shigeru Ban's creative use of cardboard to build a bridge. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Esquire's The Seven Wonders of the Totalitarian World. Via Cynical C.

xx-archit David Byrne visited the Phillip Johnson Glass House recently and shares his thoughts. Via Archinect.

xx-archit If you lived down the street from Todd Oldham, maybe he'd invite you over to check out his treehouse.

xx-archit The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a reincarnation of the famed ancient library of Alexandria.

xx-archit Dr. Strangelove Finds Home In Cold War Relic, from Architectural Record. Thanks Dave, prize on the way.

xx-archit The refurbishment of 860-880 Lake Shore Drive by Mies van der Rohe continues. Edward Lifson keeps an eye (and camera) on the paint choices.

xx-archit "I pick up my pen. A building appears." Guardian interview with architect Oscar Niemeyer. Required reading.

xx-archit You might not recognize the name, but you'll recognize some of the buildings of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.

xx-archit A growing travel guide for building geeks like me. The Archi-Tourist, created by Chicago's own Daily Dose of Architecture.

xx-archit Web troubles for a few days - time to finish July with a flurry of links. Rocky coastal home by McKay Lyons Sweetapple. Forest getaway by Cutler Anderson. And the Nowhaus by Locus Architecture.

xx-archit "The official PR handout is a prime example of how America is blowing green smoke up its own ass." Welcome to the Eyesore of the Month.

xx-archit As part of artist Jan-Erik Andersson's quest for a doctorate degree in visual arts, he's building a house. In the shape of a leaf. Here's Life on a Leaf.

xx-archit Interesting design for a new 50 story tower in Melbourne.

xx-archit Why not spend a moment to take the taste test at Jones, Partners: Architecture?

xx-archit Film on Expo 70: Colour Diary 36, Osaka 1970. Sweet. Via City of Sound.

xx-archit Frohn & Rojas, "The project breaks down the 'traditional' walls of a house into a series of four delaminated layers (concrete cave, stacked shelving, milky shell, soft skin) in between which the different spaces of the house slip." Via Createmake.

xx-archit Edward Lifson asks, "Wanna buy a Breuer?"

xx-archit Bathing Beauties: Re-imagine the Beach Hut for the 21st Century. Via TH.

xx-archit Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway, 7 full miles of never used tunnels under the city. Via Dark Roasted.

xx-archit Long ago and far away, CP sent out a request for travel photos. I sent in a couple pix of the massive Nicholson Viaduct. But nothing like this view during construction in 1912. More views here.

xx-archit Framing Modernism: Selected photographs by Frank Lotz Miller, from the Southeastern Architectural Archive.

xx-archit "The ecstasy of having more space in Manhattan." Bldgblog's Extra Room Fantasies will be coming to WFMU and on the web, soon.

xx-archit Interbau: The Modernization of Germany "opened on July 6, 1957 in Berlin's Hansa neighborhood, and came to be seen as a tangible example of Germany's modernization and a side effect of the Cold War." Thanks Sigmundur.

xx-archit Auburn University's Rural Studio architectural projects. Link from Todd Wescott, an architect and subscriber to our Infrequent Mailings who, as part of a contest, submitted the winning application to be our Guest Editor for Fresh Signals for the balance of the month.

xx-archit Photos of cephalopodic playscapes in Japan.

xx-archit Shanghai may see a floating city on the Huangpu River during the 2010 World Expo.

xx-archit "I have no idea how to make such a slide show open at one particular slide or another, but I'll suggest that if you get past the first interior image without falling in love with their work, then you don't have a pulse." Thanks Todd.

xx-archit Monocle plans an interesting urban village in Perfect High Street.

xx-archit One the reasons I really disliked living in Phoenix was the need to bulldoze anything interesting that had the audacity to be more than twenty years old. For shame.

xx-archit China's preparations for the 2008 Olympics continue, check out the Aquatics Center.

xx-archit Frank Lloyd Wright's Duncan House available for weekend rentals.

xx-archit Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Second Life. Via Arch. Record.

xx-archit Ostel, the DDR hotel. "Travel with us back to the former East Germany... starting with the original furniture, to a city tour in a Trabant vehicle." More at Dezeen.

xx-archit The SF Chronicle has a nice article on how great design is incorporated by nonprofit urban developers.

xx-archit "You see how straight and perfect are the reflections today." Edward Lifson on Crown Hall in the Summer Solstice. Crown Hall, not in the Summer Solstice, but looking great all the same.

xx-archit Dan Havel and Dean Ruck's Tunnel House.

xx-archit Monocle video feature on James Sanders' Celluloid Skyline exhibition. It's the story of how NYC was constructed, in the movies.

xx-archit Local note. Just this month the Mies van der Rohe Society have started up their daily guided tours of the Illinois Institute of Technology. If you aren't able to make it, the next best thing is to check out our feature on the reconstruction of van der Rohe's Crown Hall.

xx-archit Seth Ashley's documentary on Steven Holl's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in KC.

xx-archit Summertime. Why not spend it in a Fireworks House or perhaps a Book House? Interesting structures by Nendo.

xx-archit Buildings of New York, photographs by Ezra Stoller.

xx-archit BB, will you buy me one of these?

xx-archit Rome Reborn 1.0 showcases the ancient city at its peak in 320 AD.

xx-archit The top ten green skyscrapers.

xx-archit This Ain't No Disco, it's where we work. Interior spaces of creative firms. Via Createmake.

xx-archit "One reason you could feel like a god --a classical hero-- in the old Penn Station was that, going under the river, you were traversing an underworld. The experience of moving through that tunnel and emerging up into that station became an archetypal democratic rite of passage." Notes From the Underground, by Marshal Berman. Va DDoA.

xx-archit DDoI goes inside the new addition to the Royal Ontario Museum by Daniel Libeskind. Here are Sam's shots of the outside, during the public opening, Thanks Marsh.

xx-archit Kitsune Noir posts (with tons of photos) on The Best Supermarkets in the World, certainly the best looking. The Mpreis brand from Austria.

xx-archit The Camouflage House. Thanks Carlos.

xx-archit "...part of Manhattan is actually constructed from British war ruins." The Manhattan Landfill.

xx-archit Working directly onto the exterior of the Lyttelton flytower, Ackroyd, Harvey and a team of twenty assistants will plant the north and west face with seedling grass, transforming this landmark on the London skyline into a living installation.

xx-archit Yakov Chernikhov's architectural fantasies, Palaces of Communism.

xx-archit Every issue of Ume, the "international architecture magazine," now available as free pdfs. Via Gravestmor.

xx-archit Zaha Hadid talks with Paul Goldberger about how technology, globalization, and population growth affect architects. From 2012: Stories From the Near Future, the NYer Conference.

xx-archit Edward Lifson on Chicago's Monadnock Building.

xx-archit What better way to see a building than to have the architect himself give you a tour. Lord Foster, architect for the new Wembley Stadium, shows you around.

xx-archit Desert Deathstar and the Little Japanese Radio That Could. Gravestmor on the OMA plan for the Ras al Khaimah Convention & Exhibition Centre in Dubai.

xx-archit A short video that tries to define the difference between Architecture and Urbanism, mainly by saying that Urbanism is creating potential and Architecture as exploiting it.

xx-archit Bldgblog on the bright light at the end of the tunnel and architecture.

xx-archit "If you're confused by this blog, maybe that's ok because it's true intent is to store home ideas digitally while we move about." DO Research by Eric Olson, on prefab house design. Via Happy Accidents.

xx-archit Built in 1970, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Ginza Tokyo was a innovative masterpiece by architect Kisho Kurokawa... Complete with appliances and furniture, from audio system to telephone, the capsule interior was pre-assembled in a factory off-site and then hoisted by crane and fastened to the concrete core shaft. Via City of Sound.

xx-archit Another incredible architectural project by Todd Saunders: the Aurland Lookout. Via Byrdhouse.

xx-archit "The city of Tel Aviv is literally an open museum of the International Bauhaus Style in architecture." Via City Comforts.

xx-archit Magnificent decompositions of the city skyline by Mark Napier. A new exhibition, Permutations of a Monument.

xx-archit Construction shots of SOM's Burj Dubai, which, when it opens in 2009, will be the tallest building in the world. Plus a bit of perspective from Daily Dose of Architecture.

xx-archit Nokia in Wonderland is a multi-screen video wallpaper that was made for the Nokia flagship store to provide an enjoyable calming experience for visitors. The idea is less about selling product and more about brand-as-lifestyle and getting into the concept of environmental therapy. Via The Supernature.

xx-archit National Geographic illustration of New York's subterranean landscape. Via Pruned.

xx-archit Related to the last post, our Crown Hall video, set to Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, and The New National Gallery in Berlin, set to Zeppelin's Kashmir.

xx-archit When Edward Lifson says this is the best Mies Van Der Rohe video ever, you should listen.

xx-archit Now I know why my spirit soars when ever I'm inside a Gothic Cathedral. New research into consumer behavior has found a link between the height of a room's ceiling and the kind of thoughts a person will have in that room. Via Thinkingpictures.

xx-archit A smart, beautiful post on architecture at Eikongraphia, The Endgame of Minimalism.

xx-archit James Wines, a founding member in 1970 of the SITE (Sculpture In The Environment) architectural group, described the Highrise of Homes project as a "vertical community" to "accommodate people's conflicting desires to enjoy the cultural advantages of an urban center, without sacrificing the private home identity and garden space associated with suburbia."

xx-archit Phillip Johnson's famous Glass House is now open to the public. May need to plan a little trip up to New Canaan.

xx-archit Explore this collection of some of the most famous and some of the not so famous urban squares all over the world.

xx-archit Images from the Stockholm subway, which is cut into solid rock and looks like a sc-fi movie set. Via Table of Malcontents.

xx-archit From May 29 to June 2 at the Storefront for Art and Architecture gallery in NYC, there's a big, cool thing happening involving some very interesting people. Now if they'd only decide what it is.

xx-archit Finally, a way to keep my daughter from climbing on the coffee table.

xx-archit "The design is a retrofitting replacement of the horizontal steel tube that currently holds freeway signage. The replacement will house two horizontal axis wind turbines that will be powered by the turbulence created from the passing cars." Brilliant.

xx-archit Oh for bigger scans. Michael Moran's photographs of Philip Johnson's Glass House taken over several years. Moran's notes on the privately printed book that came out of the project.

xx-archit "The Palace of the Soviets" was proposed but never built. What if it had been? Via Rise.

xx-archit Lovely illustrated post at Eikongraphia about the Beijing Airport by Foster + Partners that is currently under construction .

xx-archit Casey took some pictures and that was all for the River Roads Mall.

xx-archit Amanda Levete's bridge design for the Dublin Docklands.

xx-archit Edward Lifson's NPR story on architectural photographer Richard Nickel is mandatory listening, A Lost City's Lost Champion. Beautiful.

xx-archit Inspiring workplaces. Dig the Red Bull HQ in London, designed by Jump Studios. Via the Miss who is Swiss.

xx-archit The next best thing to being there. Dan Hill visits "Alvar Aalto through the eyes of Shigeru Ban," at the Barbican Art Gallery in London

xx-archit "It was deemed that Los Angeles would become the anti-city. Angelenos would live not in cramped apartments close to their industrial jobs, but in airy bungalows with tidy yards." The 1970 Los Angeles 'Centers' Concept Plan. Via Things.

xx-archit Briliant architectural and other projetcs from Heatherwick Studio in London, Via FormFiftyFive.

xx-archit Owen Hatherley on Constructivist architecture in the Ukraine, more specifically, "the complex known variously as Gosprom, Derzhprom, N47 and (gasp!) the Palace of Industry."

xx-archit A wonderful post by Peacay on the design proposal for the 1962 Seattle Century 21 Exposition including site plans and orginal concept work for the Space Needle.

xx-archit Investors in a central China city are building a giant $300 million sculpture of a dragon that they say will be the largest in the world.

xx-archit Nicely designed and built website on nicely designed and built Esplanade Apartments by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

xx-archit About the same size as my first apartment in Chicago, only a lot more interesting to look at. The Micro Compact Home. Via Reluct.

xx-archit Tom Lundin's Modeling Mid-Century Modern. "...to show off my love of tech illustration, along with my obsession with mid-century modern architecture." Yowza. Via Scrubbles.

xx-archit Singapore's floating towers.

xx-archit "Almost two years late and way over budget, the new Wembley stadium is finally open. And it was well worth the wait."

xx-archit Spy's Spice on Flughafen Tegel 1967, the Berlin airport terminal as designed by structuralist architect Schulze-Fielitz.

xx-archit Ruairi Glynn on Gary Chang's experiment with reconfigurable living spaces, The Suitcase House Hotel.

xx-archit Victorian train station - redone - puts the glamour back into rail travel. Slideshow with audio. Via.

xx-archit The World's Tallest Wooden House. Looks a lot like the Broken Angel House in Brooklyn. And sounds just as dangerous to be in. Via PSFK.

xx-archit "My Dad is an architect. He studied in Belfast and later in Leeds 1969-72 around the time most of these photos were taken."

xx-archit Gregor Graf's Hidden Town photo series. Enigmatic images of Linz architecture, purged of signs. Via vvork.

xx-archit "...almost like a Disneylandish Gehry gone wrong?" The BP Helios House. Via PSFK.

xx-archit Living Box is a preefab housing design competition.

xx-archit Can't believe this passed the local council, but this is a great solution for rebuilding a home while meeting local heritage protection requirements.

xx-archit Geoff calls for entries for an architectural film festival to be held in LA as a part of Silverlake this May. We're submitting SD's short homage to Crown Hall.

xx-archit Have you always driven past the Elks National Veterans Memorial in in Lincoln Park in Chicago and never gone in? This amazing photographer did, and here's what it looks like in 360 degree VR. Make sure you move your cursor to see the ceiling. Also on Robert Harshman's site, a 360 VR of the Gasoline Museum south of Taos in New Mexico. Now who would drive past that without going in?

xx-archit You wouldn't know it by today's howling and icy wind, but spring is heading this way. As evidence I present the snow melting away from our favorite building, in this shot by our current Guest Editor, Edward Lifson. More on Mies' Crown Hall from a field-trip SD took in August.

xx-archit Good to be here. I love steel and glass, as JC said. But do you think when the homeless dream of a comfy house to live in they dream of exposed concrete? Check out this Modernist "stigma-smashing" "flophouse" by starchitect Helmut Jahn. The brand spankin' new glass steel and concrete SRO devotes half its units to people who are homeless or disabled. Images here.

xx-archit Not sure I'd ever use it but I like the idea of this image-as-type set, called "Architekt" from Kapitza.

xx-archit Photoset of architect Louis Kahn's Yale Center for British Art. Via Daily Dose.

xx-archit Green towers in the park: Seoul Commune 2026.

xx-archit Habitat '67, Montreal's ultra-modern development built as a "case for city living" turns 40 this year. Via Nag on the Lake.

xx-archit "If I could live in any high-rise anywhere, I'd like to live in 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Oh, wait a minute, I do live there." Edward Lifson's five favorite buildings in America, that are publicly accessible.

xx-archit "...a kind of sci-fi skid row has sprung up on the temporarily frozen surface of Medicine Lake, in the western suburbs of Minneapolis." BldgBlog on Art Shanty Projects.

xx-archit The six finalists for the design of the new Stockholm Public Library. We're pulling for The Book Hill. Via Dezain.

xx-archit Plans for the doomsday vault opening in 2008.

xx-archit Things to do: 1) have children, 2) move to Denmark, and 3) enroll said children in the Ordrup School, designed by Bosch & Fjord. Via PSFK.

xx-archit Architecture Portal's Top 15 Fountains of the World. Though, you know, we've got a pretty decent foutain too.

xx-archit Michael writes, " A slideshow of 19th century temporary buildings, some amazingly elaborate, made of corregated iron and still standing today."

xx-archit Photoset of the Toryglen Highrise Demolition in Scotland yesterday. It blow'd up real good. Via I Like.

xx-archit Not scheduled to open until the summer, the Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in KC is deservedly garnering a lot of attention. The architect is Steven Holl, profiled in this recent Telegraph article. Via Lifson.

xx-archit "Set in a spectacular water filled quarry in Songjiang, China, the 400 bed resort hotel is uniquely constructed within the natural elements of the quarry."

xx-archit Archinect has an interesting feature on Architecture in Second Life.

xx-archit UNStudio's converted WWII Bunker. Via Reluct.

xx-archit "Can technology enhance public use and enjoyment? Can it make space more productive, or meaningful?" Not sure, but it certainly can make it cooler. Ruairi Glynn on William J. Mitchell's presentation entitled, the Zaragoza Digital Mile.

xx-archit "Positioned between a dense grove of loblolly pines and a lush foreground of saltmeadow cordgrass and the bay, the architecture is formed about and within the elements of trees, tall grasses, the sea, the horizon, the sky and the western sun that define the place of the house." Gorgeous.

xx-archit Voting is open for The City of the Future. NYC vs CHI vs LAX.

xx-archit The Grand Canyon Skywalk will be opening March 28th.

xx-archit "The greatest cantilever ever told," over the Grand Canyon. Via the always observant Edward Lifson.

xx-archit "A collection of student work from Unit 20 of the increasingly exciting Bartlett School of Architecture in London... I can't find any links to it online, however, so I'll just give you a random walk-through of the book's contents." We love when Geoff does that.

xx-archit The Art Of Living with Art. Cool exploration of a Soho loft design. Via DDoA.

xx-archit A luminous interactive installation has transformed London's V&A John Madejski Garden this winter.

xx-archit Mental note, when in Berlin stay at Arte Luise Kunsthotel. Via Vagablond.

xx-archit Rotating apartment tower planned in Dubai. Via Lifson.

xx-archit There are still a few days remaining to invent and submit your home-made sovereignty to BldgBlog for a chance to win a copy of Lonely Planet Guide to Micronations.

xx-archit Strange Soviet Buildings. Via Byrdhouse.

xx-archit Jean Paul Ganem, "My agricultural designs are found where art is least expected... are made with plants, therefore, they are constantly changing with time." Via Aeiou.

xx-archit "Look at it very closely: the details disappear in a funny way." Metropolis Magazine on the reopening of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canan, CT which is scheduled for April. Plus, a great interview with Vincent Scully about the the house. Via Lifson.

xx-archit For Finn, here's our film about Crown Hall that you're looking for.

xx-archit "It's gorgeous, stone simple. But what do you do when it rains? 'You get wet.'" Mies in Miami. Via Archinect.

xx-archit A Daily Dose of Architecture Ecuador. Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro.

xx-archit A capital idea. Ironic Sans on a building shaped like Godzilla.

xx-archit "There was no good reason churches had to cast off a thousand years of tradition and start dressing up like bank branches, but that's exactly what they did." Lileks' annotated photoset of postwar church architecture.

xx-archit Beijing's 2008 Olympic Stadium under construction.

xx-archit City of Sound on Typotecture, typography as architectural imagery.

xx-archit "We enter the master bedroom through the sliding glass door. Here, dominating the room, is without question the Town House's single most dramatic piece of furniture." Via an afternoon update to The Morning News.

xx-archit Who dreamt it, who designed it, how they built it. Great weblog telling personal stories of houses. including this one which was influenced by the great one by the great one. Found among other things.

xx-archit Tiberio points us to Figure/Ground, a site about architecture, photography and travel. So cool. For example, this set of pix of Richard Meier's sublime Jubilee Church in Rome and this one of Kenzo Tange's St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo.

xx-archit If your rooms are filled with their lamps, their couches, and everything in between, you might as well just get it over with and buy one of their houses too. Ikea plans 500 homes a year in UK (reg. req'd). Via Archinect.

xx-archit Studio 804 is a design/build program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design. Their 2006 project is a well-documented twenty-week program to create and construct modular relief housing. Via Netdiver.

xx-archit House Ray 1 in Vienna by Delugan Meissl. Spectacular. Via Paul Wagner's sweet new Tenmetal.

xx-archit Holiday House on the Rigi, Scheidegg, Switzerland by Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler.

xx-archit Eikongraphia on a proposed building for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai by the Danish firm Plot. The building is named and designed after the Chinese sign "ren," which means "people." Beautiful.

xx-archit Ken Shuttleworth's Crescent House. Spectacularly simple and beautiful residence, especially for someone who lives with lots of books. Check the brief, as well as the photos, etc.

xx-archit Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord. A fomer coal and steel plant is transformed into a park and with some amazing lighting, really comes alive at night. More here at the official site of "The Mega Multi Maxi Park."

xx-archit Montreal's Habitat '67. "The building was realized as the main pavilion and thematic emblem for the International World Exposition." Much like the structure to which it is dedicated, this site is clunky and more than a bit impractical but noble all the same. Via DDoA.

xx-archit Anyone want to loan me $750,000?

xx-archit A visual history of Paper Tube Structures. Via bblinks.

xx-archit Electroland makes urban spectacles. "Enteractive consists of a luminous field of LED lights embedded into the entry walkway that respond to the presence of visitors; a massive display of lights on the building face that mirror the patterns of the entry." Also, check the RGB project.

xx-archit Zingmagazine on 101 Spring Street, "At first, I thought the building large, but now I think it small; it didn't hold much work after all." Via City of Sound.

xx-archit Charles Phoenix's Disneyland Tour of Downtown Los Angeles. Via Daily Guilt.

xx-archit What better than an explosion to get the morning started? The Demolition of the Wachovia Building in downtown Atlanta, by Kevin Byrd.

xx-archit Prêt à Manger, a workshop on restaurant design, produced some interesting concepts. Via Psfk.

xx-archit Obsessional on Mies' 860-880 Lake Shore Drive. We love those towers and the soon-to-be-dwarfed IBM building too. But most of all we love Crown Hall at IIT, and its contemporary and cousin The School of Social Service Administration at U of C. Note to self, arrange photo pilgramage to Hyde Park.

xx-archit Frank Lloyd Wright buildings recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey at the LoC. Many with hi-res scans of drawings and plans. Great resource.

xx-archit Inhabitat on Lovetann's two new prefab homes.

xx-archit The Delft library is by Mecanoo Architecten.

xx-archit Rutger Spoelstra's photo of the TU Delft Library, plus some QTVRs of same. Beautiful. First found at Daily Dose but probably belongs in Jaime's red-hot and filthy library smut post as well.

xx-archit Live like a hobbit in The Shire of Bend, Oregon. Via Brand Avenue.

xx-archit Two new homes from Løvetann. Via Inhabitat.

xx-archit Local note. If you can make it over the next couple weekends it's running, try and hit up the Graceland Cemetery Architecture Tour. Sullivan, van der Rohe, and more. It's likely the best Chicago history lesson you'll ever have.

xx-archit You are an architecture geek. You are particularly fond on individualistic takes on the clean, modern aesthetic from the middle of the last century. Preferably lesser-known ones like Harris Armstrong. You are reading Andrew L W Raimist's Architectural Ruminations. Aren't you? Scanned Dwell article on Armstrong. Page 2. Page 3.

xx-archit Molo Design's Textile Softwalls look like a nice, clean solution to dividing up an open office space. Click through the pix.

xx-archit Don Justo has been building his own cathedral near Madrid. He has been working in the Romanesque style, as Gothic is "too complicated" and Baroque "does not please me". Some additional images here. Now, after working without a permit for 45 years, it seems as though he may gain official permission from the planning authority. Amazing.

xx-archit Roger Dean, the fantasy artist you know from his series of Yes album covers has designed a house and planned a community "for the new millenium." Trippy.

xx-archit Jump Studios' new headquarters for Red Bull. So cool. Find it under 'projects.' Via Designboom.

xx-archit Kane on the Braniff International Airways terminal at Lovefield in Dallas. Sweet. George Cserna photos from Wallpaper Magazine.

xx-archit I wonder how difficult it is to find a building to place a Loftcube on top of.

xx-archit Kane on futurist-artist Jacque Fresco and his many initiatives including The Venus Project, "a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture." Check this trailer for a new doc on Fresco, Future By Design. Fascinating.

xx-archit Todd Saunders' Summer House.

xx-archit Relink, but worth it. "Hey friend, say friend, come on over, if you're looking for happiness, this is the place!" The National Archives of Canada site dedicated to Expo 67 in Montreal. Great collection of collateral material. Add to that, this fab set of snaps from the Expo. I. II. III.

xx-archit Twists and Turns, a video of the dynamic lit skin of Uniqa Tower in Vienna. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

xx-archit DC Residence including living spaces of the Swiss Ambassador, representational spaces and staff quarters, by architect Steven Holl.

xx-archit Some interesting speculative projects using Google's SketchUp. Via Things.

xx-archit Frank Lloyd Wright in Half Life 2. Via grubbykid.

xx-archit Vintage photos of lost shopping malls of the '50s, '60s & '70s.

xx-archit Real Estate, one-hundred aerial drawings by Heman Chong. So simple. So cool. Via Designboom.

xx-archit Laminata, an innovative glass house by Kruunenberg Van der Erve Architects. Also, check this Daily Dose of Architecture post on the project.

xx-archit The Quik House is a prefabricated kit house designed by Adam Kalkin from recycled shipping containers.

xx-archit To follow that last post, and because we were talking about it at lunch, here's some great info on Sullivan's Merchants' National Bank in Grinnel, Iowa. Definitely worth the trip, if you're ever in the area.

xx-archit Heard this weekend: Hello Beautiful's "The Sound of Architecture". Includes a great piece on the Louis Sullivan building in my neighborhood, the Krause Music Store, which would be his last before his death in 1924.

xx-archit Sunset Cabin, Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Taylor Smyth Architects. Via WDIK.

xx-archit Bohemian Modern is a beautiful, new book by architect Barbara Bestor, about Silver Lake CA and the influential style of homes and design there. It was designed and illustrated by Geoff McFetridge, who was profiled in Western State 3. Cha-ching. Thanks to Chuck Anderson for the heads up.

xx-archit Geoff writes, "This project is so bizarre that I thought your readers might get a kick out of it: it's a 10-mile spiral of interconnected highway ramps located outside Las Vegas, so that families can gamble at 55mph, get their car washed, etc., all while spiraling around and around - and around - inside this weird concrete system of roads in the sky."

xx-archit Niagara Credit Union building by Philip Beesley.

xx-archit The Hotel Puerta America Madrid about which Things said, "Perhaps it helps to have design hotels kicking around so that architects can get ultimately doomed ideas out of their system."

xx-archit Electro Plankton on an abandoned city outside of Taipai.

xx-archit Louis Sullivan at 150. Via AC PLUS.

xx-archit Interesting story and photo essay from the Seattle Times about the six years my buddy Rob and his girlfriend Jenny spent living in and doing an eco-friendly rehab on a historic house in Seattle's Ballard district.

xx-archit Freitag Individual Recycled Freeway Shop. "The store is built with 17 rusty, recycled freight containers."

xx-archit For MS and BB, the Brady house rendered in CAD. Via Boing Boing.

xx-archit Wayfinding versus wayshowing. Dan Hill on an interesting looking new book on environmental signage by Per Mollerup.

xx-archit Proposals for a new extension to The Tate Modern. Check this rendering. Design by Herzog & de Meuron.

xx-archit Pingmag interview with Joe Nishizawa, whose underground Japan photography depicts a hidden fantastic world missing only mole-people and an evil, stylish despot. More pix here, unfortunately the book, Deep Inside doesn't seem to be available outside of Japan as of yet.

xx-archit He obviously prefers big, but sometimes you just need to build a small deli: Frank Gehry's Delicious.

xx-archit This month's Architectural Record Magazine has big photo feature on Tadao Ando's sublime building for the Langen Foundation, on a defunct NATO base outside of Düsseldorf. More pictures here, plus an interview with Ando at Designboom and another from Brutus.

xx-archit "The various three-dimensional blocks of the different floor plans -or "typologies," as Ingels calls them- put one in mind of an insane megascale Tetris game, in which apartments rain down into big empty volumes and must be rotated to the correct orientation." Via BldgBlog.

xx-archit "The tube of the tunnel forms its own room and turns slowly along the longitudinal axis around the visitor. The scent pours from the flower pots attached to the tube." The Dufttunnel. Via Ramage.

xx-archit Inflating the sphere atop Serpentine Pavillion by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond, in London. Via Dezain.

xx-archit Photos from a Zaha Hadid exhibit in New York. And here's an animation of her Aquatics Centre for the 2010 Olympics in London.

xx-archit The Metro stations in Stockholm are beautiful. Via land-o-links.

xx-archit Marmol Radziner + Associates fab prefab desert house. Via aWLN.

xx-archit Cassandra Complex, the controversial and imaginative Melbourne architecture firm of Cassandra Fahey. Check the Goss House and the Newman House, and yes, that is Pamela Anderson.

xx-archit Hong Kong: The Densecity, a large collection from the skyscraper capitol of the world.

xx-archit Sweet interface for viewing details from projects large and small from architect Jonathan Schloss. Via Netdiver.

xx-archit The Inscribing of Paris Street Names. Via Plep.

xx-archit Japanese flood tunnels in Tokyo. Via Bunch of Nerds.

xx-archit From the Weekly Dose of Architecture."The project Seewurfel ('Lake Cubes') is based on a concept of piazzas that were created by the careful positioning of the eight buildings." Nice.

xx-archit Pingmag interview about the Micro Compact Home with Claudia Hertrich of Horden Cherry Lee Architects.

xx-archit By 2012, engineers will have constructed a new high tech dam that will once again make Mont Saint-Michel an island.

xx-archit UNStudio's VilLA NM single family house in upstate New York.

xx-archit Best Buildings of the Year - As selected by The American Institute of Architects.

xx-archit "You dock the ship for so long it becomes architecture, an extension of the earth's surface into the sea."

xx-archit House from winery in Brejos de Azeitão in Portugal by architects Aires Mateus. "The introduction of volumes in this interior becomes related with the light and intends 'to modulate' the main space of the room." Via DDoA.

xx-archit A bit clunky but worth the effort. A virtual tour of the Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart, "With the art director, Mies van der Rohe, 17 architects from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland created a model housing programme for the modern urbanite."

xx-archit Local note. the bridge-tender towers on the Chicago River are opening for tours. Finally an answer to "what's in there?" every time we pass by.

xx-archit Studio804 completes Modular3 in Kansas City's Strawberry Hill neighborhood.

xx-archit FOVICKS, Friends Of Vast Industrial Concrete Kafkaesque Structures. Via GaB.

xx-archit The new host of Extreme Engineering is a stand-up comedian - and a graduate student in architecture at Harvard University. He now flies around the world cracking jokes in front of the world's largest architectural structures, while studying to get his degree. Dream job? Read this interview and howl with envy.

xx-archit An entire Swiss valley has won the 2006 International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens. Described as a "real utopia," it is full of "jagged ravines" and many of the houses don't have electricity: more info at Pruned.

xx-archit What will NYC look like in 2016? New York Magazine gives us a glimpse. Here, for instance, is Harlem. (Via Archinect)

xx-archit "It was a beautiful enchanted island in the middle of the city... And if it's a quiet night and you listen really closely, you can almost hear the big bands playing there." CRCC reminisces about the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Via Palla.

xx-archit Can one of London's Tube stations be transformed into a kind of cylindrical power plant, generating electricity from the vibrations of trains and stair-climbing commuters? One architect thinks so: BBC. Via Archinect.

xx-archit "Innovative lofts with a garden and garage on each floor..." Car Loft in Berlin.

xx-archit The skyscrapers of Shanghai have become inadvertant climatological devices, generating often-dangerous windstorms at ground level. Via things.

xx-archit "24 Sony digital projectors, an eight-channel audio system and ultrasonic motion tracking technology": it's the future of the border, the future of war, and the future of simulation. It's The War Room.

xx-archit Co-conspirator Ken Meier's photosets from the 2006 Yale GDMFA Show and from The School of Architecture End of Year Show, an exhibition he helped design.

xx-archit "The Toronto Waterfront is an archipelago waiting to be discovered. Once sandbars, the Toronto Islands surfaced over the last century to become the largest car-free community in North America." Find out how they're being architecturally transformed. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Weird valves and other large-scale hydrological mechanisms. Renaissance waterworks. Water wheels and windmills. Even more here.

xx-archit Interactive Architecture on 12m4s, a super cool "architectural intervention" created by Lab(au) for the Artefact Festival in Belgium.

xx-archit Jean Snow's photo set of a new, as yet unoccupied, mysterious and beautiful building in Harajuku Japan.

xx-archit An old warship has been sunk in the Gulf of Mexico to form the backbone of an artificial reef - even while " a broken chain of tankers, tugs, barges, and patrol boats" now pollutes the territorial waters of Iraq. It's undersea architecture, or the residues of war.

xx-archit On some kind of architecture streak today: a gigantic collection of photos from construction on the new Zollverein School of Design in Germany.

xx-archit The New Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Gorgeous. Opens this Friday.

xx-archit If we come in tomorrow to find that the CP studio has been sold and JC is nowhere to be found, I'm going to take a guess that he's bought Mies van der Rohe's Morris Greenwald House.

xx-archit In case someone wants/needs a 100 year old George Maher home in northern Michigan. CP summer retreat?

xx-archit A photographic study of small huts for security guards, all found throughout Mexico City.

xx-archit Glyph Jockey's scans from History of Architecture & Ornament. Via Bibliodyssey.

xx-archit Drains of Canada.

xx-archit "If this year's Big Brother house doesn't drive its inhabitants up the wall, the designers will have failed. Even the urinals aren't safe from prying eyes." Tour the architecture of popular surveillance.

xx-archit Sustainable condos arrive in Chicago? Using " high-performance glass and other new technologies," they're planned for the Gold Coast.

xx-archit 3D buildings printed from Google Earth.

xx-archit If it looks like a Gehry and talks like a Gehry, it's probaby a Gehry. Gehry's Latest, Revealed, complete with soundbite.

xx-archit Using an "indestructible mix of ice and wood pulp," could the British military have made "a massive floating island" suitable for going to war? Kircher Society

xx-archit Are architects hand-maidens to power? Rem Koolhaas has designed structures for the government of China, for instance - as has Herzog & de Meuron. Do architects simply glorify totalitarian egos? Via Archinect

xx-archit The Mars Citizenship Program is now underway: "robots could set up the first Martian habitats - including a nuclear reactor - in about 10 years, for an initial $2 billion investment. That amount could be raised if 90,000 Earthlings parted with $10,000 each; 10,000 handed over $100,000 apiece and 100 tycoons each donated $1 million." New Scientist.

xx-archit Little slivers of unused urban space - medians, gaps - are now the focus of a design campaign looking to "beautify" these orphan spaces. (Via Archinect)

xx-archit Pierre Koenig architecure image archive at USC. Great, mostly glass and steel, residential work. I. II. III. Via gmt+9 (-15).

xx-archit Construction of Beijing's Olympic shooting range has been suspended due to ancient tombs for imperial eunuchs being discovered on-site.

xx-archit BOB. "Somewhere between a tent, a house and a Winnebago." Via Inhabitat.

xx-archit Craneporn. More at DDoA.

xx-archit Leo Fabrizio, the "bunker hunter," has tracked down and photographed over 3000 bunkers hidden throughout the Swiss landscape. WMMNA. Photo gallery.

xx-archit Take a tour of the weird, Dr. Seussian world of interconnected belts and machines otherwise known as the basement of the British Library. While you're there, check out the Camden Catacombs.

xx-archit The most insane intersection I've ever seen: it's Swindon's five-roundabouts-within-a-roundabout, spinning both anti- and clock-wise simultaneously: story (you can even buy a t-shirt!) and diagram. Good luck. (Via Sean F.)

xx-archit A "vast, moving, wooden elephant, 42 tons in weight" is set to walk around the streets of London for four days in May. Watch out: Interactive Architecture dot Org.

xx-archit "Deep beneath Moscow a crew of urban spelunkers frolics, hunting Stalin's secret hideaway, Ivan the Terrible's torture chamber, bootleg nuclear weapons, and a little fame and fortune" - it's from 1997... but still fun: Outside Online.

xx-archit A "cluster of mock Iraqi villages" has been designed "deep in the Mojave Desert." Training there, US soldiers "face insurgent uprisings, suicide bombings and even staged beheadings in underground tunnels." It's DisneyWar, at the New York Times.

xx-archit Today is the birtHDay of the American skyscraper, with construction starting in 1884 right here in Chicago on The Home Insurance Building. And here's some info on the engineer, William LeBaron Jenny, as well as photos of some of his other Chicago landmarks.

xx-archit Best-looking City Halls thread, with lots of photos. Vancouver's is sweet.

xx-archit The construction workers "in Hamburg placed a monumental message in the front of this building - invisible for the supervision of building and architects." Via City of Sound.

xx-archit Nearest Thing to Heaven.

xx-archit Steven Clark writes regarding Beijing Olympic stadium construction. " Ross Langdon has some more images - how they're meant to look when they are finished and who designed them."

xx-archit Beijing 2008 Olympic stadium construction pix. Via Archinect.

xx-archit The sublime Madrid Barajas Airport by Richard Rogers. Here's a profile from The Guardian and a thread full of big beautiful photos.

xx-archit A new library in Guadalajara to be created from more than two hundred discarded fuselages from Boeing 727 and 737 airplanes. Listed under "New Jalisco Library" with tons of other smart ideas and projects at the site of our new fave firm, Lot-Ek. Via Designboom.

xx-archit "For four years from 1965 until the founding of his architectural firm, Ando Tadao worked a part-time in jobs related to architecture to earn money to travel throughout Europe and the United States. Ando refers to this time in his life as his 'Grand Tour.'"

xx-archit The New Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth by architect Tadao Ando. Found while looking for photos of his amazing Picture Book Museum.

xx-archit A great interview with artist/architect, Luke Chandresinghe over at the always fantastic, PingMag.

xx-archit "...by 1930 three dairy companies dominated the dairy scene. They were the United States Dairy Products Corp., Borden's and Sheffield Farms. Most of those facilities are gone now, but a few buildings have survived..." Via Brownstoner.

xx-archit Pruned: Landscape challenge #3. "A multiple choice question this time. What is the function of this concrete protrusion on the plains of the Negev Desert in southern Israel?"

xx-archit "When proposing his West Berlin hotel in 1955, he proclaimed: 'We have hit upon a new weapon with which to fight Communism, a new team made up of owner, manager and labor with which to confront the class-conscious Mr. Marx.'" Molly W. Berger's review of Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture. Via Things.

xx-archit Concrete Island.

xx-archit The Future Was So Cool in 1961. Interview with Eddie Sotto, head of design on the Encounter restaurant project. "We wanted the inside to feel like an 'intergalactic in flight' lounge." Via EotG.

xx-archit Albano Daminato, interior architect, Singapore. I. II. III.

xx-archit While in Toronto over the weekend I walked by the construction site for the new galleries being added to the Royal Ontario Museum. The final rendering looks amazing.

xx-archit Interesting, even if you don't live there: a timeline of Greenpoint. Via Brownstoner.

xx-archit Diserio's Top 15 Skylines in the World v3.0. Via The Presurfer.

xx-archit "The Trojan Goat has been a show pony for the UVA architecture program, and now maybe a cash cow for the Piedmont Housing Alliance." The self-sufficient house project. Via Daily Dose.

xx-archit The Therme Vals Baths in Zurich, by architect Peter Zumthor. Sublime. Click the links in the left hand rail for photos. Via Freegorifero.

xx-archit Fab H-Haus Cube 5. Via AWLN.

xx-archit Don't date an architect. Via DO.

xx-archit Designed for Leisure Living, from Design Magazine, 1969. So nice.

xx-archit Bryan Varney's Jenga Tower Projects.

xx-archit An architect and a builder responded to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina by designing HELP living modules. Next time disaster strikes, we can only hope there might be a solution like this. These 8 x 12 foot modules are easily assembled and incredibly compact.

xx-archit Creative Home Engineering adds value to homes by planning and constructing secret hidden passageways. You know, like behind the bookcase.

xx-archit A stroll through Santiago Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain. Via Paperholic.

xx-archit The Hotel Puerta America in Madrid. Start with John's A Daily Dose of Architecture posts, with lots of pix. Parts one and two. Totally fab, especially the Gluckman and Isozaki rooms and Ron Arad's corridors. Then find more photos here.

xx-archit WMMNA interview with UnitedVisualArtists, interactive installation artists, for lack of a better term. Check the pix and video of their interior for London club Kabaret's Prophecy .

xx-archit The Detroit slums get a fresh coat of paint. Via we-make-money-not-art.

xx-archit Following up yesterday's post on the AGO Frank Gehry show, check today's pic at the daily dose.

xx-archit Video from the current Frank Gehry exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

xx-archit Art In Ruins examines how artists and architecture in Providence, RI are affected as the city expands and evolves.

xx-archit Continuing on a different previous theme from today, Stephane writes simply, "wicked disco stadium."

xx-archit Archinect photoset of the Allianz Arena. An image search of the same delivers some spectacular results as well.

xx-archit "Inspired by the colors and textures of nature, Livinglass is a laminated architectural glass, which captures organic materials within luminous sheets of clear glass." Via Heavy Petal.

xx-archit "...convey something of the discrete character of elements in the Australian landscape, to offer my interpretation in built form." Architectural sketches by Glenn Murcutt.

xx-archit Whitehouse and Company are working with really big pixels for an ingenious Children's Museum sponsorship project.

xx-archit As part of the last MoOM update, sd made this short film about the newly refurbished Crown Hall at IIT, the spritual home of our Museum. I spent some valuable time there yesterday on my way further south to gape at his equally impressive School of Social Science building at the U of C.

xx-archit Sweet prefab floorplan by Michelle Kaufmann. The Side Breeze. Via, as most of the good prefab links seem to be, aWLN.

xx-archit "Singing Bridges is a sonic sculpture, playing the cables of stay-cabled and suspension bridges as musical instruments." Via bldg.

xx-archit Technology takes over the Sassi, an Italian cave city abandoned in the 50s. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Artist Dhaj Sumner constructed her amazing New Zealand home out of adobe in-situ, a mixture of clay, sand, paper pulp and cement. Now she hosts freeform earthbuilding workshops.

xx-archit Only been to Detroit once, but would like to go back to explore all the empty buildings: DetroitYES: Home of the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit. Make sure to take the tour. Via Things.

xx-archit It would be great to see all of these concepts in one go. Walker Art Center's Some Assembly Required showcases the best of contemporary prefabricated homes. I'd like Pinc House's Black Barn, please.

xx-archit Stunning kitchens from Lineaquattro. Check out Legno, just beautiful. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Tacoma is losing one of its local architectural anomalies.

xx-archit We need some of these in the studio. Nice.

xx-archit "Micro Dwellings is a moveable, modular system which can be configured in an infinite number of ways due to its geometry. They can be built onto existing construction, submerged, or mounted on wheels to create the basis for personalized social settings.". Via Inhabitat.

xx-archit "Collingwood's Vessel: a Retirement Home for Elderly Fisherman,".

xx-archit City of Sound on architecture, the big ape, fauna, flora, pixels and paper.

xx-archit Zulkey's great interview with architectural historian and social critic, David Garrard. Particularly interesting if you're a fan of Chicago architecture.

xx-archit Seasick video clip of an escalator making its way through one of the aquaria at the Hekkeijimi Sea Paradise.

xx-archit Using rotating mirrors to bring light to Rattenberg, Austria.

xx-archit Haiko's The Last Days of Disco, a visit to a disappearing plant.

xx-archit Quonset: metal living for a modern age.

xx-archit All the big ones, togther at last. Lots more fantastic models here.

xx-archit Some good news for New Orleans, free wireless internet.

xx-archit Winners from the Oklahoma City Bus Stop Competition.

xx-archit AWL on Luigi Nervi who "liberated architecture from the tree" and built lots of big things and some smaller beautiful things too, like the structural elements under Rome's Olympic Highway.

xx-archit The new database from the Royal Institute of British Architects: RIBApix. Fantastic. Via Things.

xx-archit "The highway, called Atlanterhavsveien, runs south of Kristiansund as the coast curves towards Molde. It runs right along the North Sea, known for its dramatic storms and varying light throughout the year." Norway's "Structure of the Century." Via Things.

xx-archit Masamichi Katayama is Wonderwall Inc. The design projects and store interiors he has produced are truly inspirational. Faves include The Tokyo Towers Sea Sky Lounge, Bapy Aoyama shop and the new Bape Cafe!?. Via Shoepal.

xx-archit Nice, Japanese modern architecture photo blog. Via Daily Does.

xx-archit E. Stewart Williams defined the desert modern school of architecture. From the LA Times. Via Archinect.

xx-archit The Maunsell Army Sea Forts at Red Sands and Shivering Sands. Very cool in a kind of sci-fi-WWII sort of way. Thanks to our man in Toronto.

xx-archit Tonight, The Chicago Prize Awards 2005, Water Tanks, from the Chicago Architectural Club, "This competition challenges entrants to salvage a part of Chicago's urban fabric, the industrial water tank."

xx-archit An Anatomy of Megachurches: an interesting essay/slide-show about these huge structures.

xx-archit This is what dominated the lunch conversation today.

xx-archit "The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent; and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy."

xx-archit Our Man from Toronto declares that today is Shed Day. I. II. III. Who are we to argue with that?

xx-archit BlueSkyMod's Prefab Cabin. Via aWLN.

xx-archit Vito Acconci's The Island in the Mur project from 03. "What makes the island so exciting is not only its combination of interior/exterior but also the new perspectives it provides of the city. Familiar objects in Graz can be seen from a new point of view." Via wmmna.

xx-archit Henk van Rensbergen's Abandoned Places.

xx-archit "The problems of older cities in America are many and grave." A fascinating scan of Alfred de Grazia's Metropolis 1976 utopia. Via Things.

xx-archit You are a geek for architecture. You are particularly fond on individualistic takes on the clean, modern aesthetic from the middle of the last century. Preferably lesser-known ones. You are reading Andrew L W Raimist's Architectural Ruminations. Aren't you?

xx-archit Renzo Piano's new Peek und Cloppenburg Department Store, Cologne, Germany.

xx-archit "Tatlin's tower has come to symbolize an impossible project, the Unicorn or Atlantis of the cultural world... Our project is to build the Tower, full size and to the intended specifications from girders and steel guy wires."

xx-archit Ironworkers Local 580 Training Facility. Long Island City, New York. Building profile from A Weekly Dose of Architecture.

xx-archit Klein Dytham Architecture's Tokyo 'Billboard Building', an unlovely name for a lovely idea.

xx-archit An interesting interview with the architecture collective, Studio Sputnik, creators of the beautifully illustrated book, "Snooze."

xx-archit Metro Arts and Architecture transit station appreciation.

xx-archit Sauerbruch Hutton Architects' New Building for the Berlin Police and Fire Departments. Via Daily Dose.

xx-archit LED's as Architectural Lighting. Beautiful examples from Seoul and Tokyo.

xx-archit Inside Battersea Power Station, courtesy of The Beeb.

xx-archit Parasitic Architecture. In German, but you'll get the idea with or without translating. Via 1+1=1.

xx-archit I should post this every day. Tadao Ando. Tadao Ando.

xx-archit Ruminations on Harris Armstrong's Magic Chef Building and three beuatiful pix, all from Andrew Raimist. Beautiful, unapologetic modernism.

xx-archit A shade of pink: The Lawn Road Flats are brought back to life. Found among other things.

xx-archit Nathan Sawaya, Takeda Headquarters Groundbreaking Ceremonies. Via Bezembinder's.

xx-archit Get yourself to Milan anytime between September 19th and October 16th to check out this exhbit of the work of architect Cassi Ramelli. Some favorites, here.

xx-archit The Sale House, designed by Johnston MarkLee. Hey Jason, that's the vibe we should be looking for in a new global HQ.

xx-archit Sure, it's all well and good to preserve historic architecture, but what about buildings of more recent vintage?

xx-archit The Wall Street Journal continues to crush on our pals at 37 Signals like Joanie on Chachi. Today they actually find a way to feature SvN prominently in a story on old home renovation. The same story also points us to an awesome site detailing the long, slow DIY makeover of an 18th century home in Lancaster County, VA.

xx-archit Royal Institute of British Architects Awards 2005: Residential Schemes.

xx-archit OK, you struck a nerve. Check out the pictures from the Herzog & de Meuron gallery. Especially the Ricola building, the Railroad Signal Tower, and of course Tate Modern. Then read Power Into Art.

xx-archit City of Sound post on Herzog and De Meuron's Allianz Arena in Munich. "...the stadium should glow different colours to indicate which team is playing at home - red for the shirts of Bayern Munich, blue for those of Munich 1860, and white for the German national team."

xx-archit The Grand Tour, a survey of Renzo Piano buildings in Europe, via Google Maps, at Daily Does of Architecture. Found among other things.

xx-archit The architecture of Toyo Ito. Not so nicely displayed here but the genius shines through anyway. Inspirational. Here's a Designboom interview, another at The Take.

xx-archit Keith Milford's Malls of America is a small but beautiful series of photosets of '60s and '70s interiors and ephemera.

xx-archit Mister Aitch on Jean-Jacques Lequeu, visionary, cantankerous architect with a flair for the dramatic. Great story, beautifully illustrated, as per the usual.

xx-archit Special Models. The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz, insurance clerk from Vienna. Via Bezembinder's.

xx-archit London's greatest Twentieth Century vintage Formica caffs. Via Londonist.

xx-archit Cool construction pix of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion at Kensington Garderns, London. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Welcome to our building! We're glad to have you! Now, please, whatever you do, don't even think about sitting here. Via Unbeige.

xx-archit Ultramodern single-wide trailer by architect Christopher Deam.

xx-archit The Filling Station is a loft development in Miami notable for the way it presents itself online. I don't necessarily agree that the "building is f---ing cool" but I do believe that's the first time I've seen that headline in real estate advertising.

xx-archit Zaha Hadid's BMW AG Plant in Leipzig. Via Archinect. More here and here.

xx-archit "Visionary architects who imagined and planned grandiose buildings that would never be constructed." Mister Aitch on Étienne-Louis Boullée and Jean-Jacques Lequeu.

xx-archit Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv, "During the 1930s, while the modernist movement in art reached its apogee in Europe, the city of Tel Aviv was in a stage of intensive development. Most of the architecs working in the new city at that time were of European background and brought with them the ideas of the modernist movement." Via City Comforts.

xx-archit "Hmm, perhaps I'll try the fish."

xx-archit Production and Work. Olivetti and factory design. Found among other things.

xx-archit Fab pre-fab homes. 'O Sole Mio' is a beauty.

xx-archit Hhstyle Store Design by Nacása & Partners.

xx-archit Searchscapes Manhattan. Yowza.

xx-archit "This strangely graceful, bold and creative building..." The dream of the future brought to reality by Monsanto. Via Scrubbles.

xx-archit Architect Egon Eiermann, the Continuity of Modernism.

xx-archit Next time you're thinking of painting a room, consider Anna Sova's paint. It's made with 99% food grade ingredients, so you can snack on some while you're coating that blank wall with some color. Via Treehugger.

xx-archit Record Brother presents Conversations Regarding The Future Of Architecture, an LP record released by Reynolds Metals in 1956. Saarinen, Johnson, Van Der Rohe, Gropius and Neutra. Awesome.

xx-archit The Architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Spectacular drawings of unrealised projects. Via NT.

xx-archit Googie Architecture Online. "Googie has also been known as Populuxe, Doo-Wop, Coffee Shop Modern, Jet Age, Space Age and Chinese Modern... Googie often seems like a joint design by the Jetsons and the Flintstones." Via I Like.

xx-archit Not Fooling Anybody, a Chronicle of Bad Conversions and Storefronts Past. Most excellent. I. II. III. Via Paperholic.

xx-archit Opening Day for the Red Sox today, and as exciting as the ring ceremony may be, I'm looking forward to seeing the yearly renovations to the age-old park. Fenway had the reputation of being a great place to see a game -- if you wanted to know what it was like during 1908. Check out some of the proposals and documents, or take a video tour of this years changes. Janet Marie-Smith and the team at Fenway have done an amazing job of keeping the old-time feel of Fenway in tact while making amazing improvements to the park and its infrastructure.

xx-archit The hauntingly beautiful opening to a series exploring the long abandoned Officer's Row houses in Brooklyn's Navy Yard: Written and Photographed. Via Brownstoner.

xx-archit Someday, buildings will be constructed entirely by machines... maybe.

xx-archit If you can't keep 'em out, at least make 'em environmentally friendly: Vancouver Vs. Wal Mart. Via Byrdhouse.

xx-archit A thorough review of airport expansion projects throughout the world. In honor of Boston's new Terminal A. On time and on budget... just like all construction projects in Boston.

xx-archit La Petite Maison du Weekend is a prototype self-sufficient minimal dwelling.

xx-archit Renovation of a Paris apartment building by Francoise Coulet architects and tons of other great stuff, like this chapel at Archicool. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Jack Blanchard's Sun-Times Sunset, very nice time-lapse of the demolition of the ST building.

xx-archit In lieu of Mass tomorrow, visit Sant' Andrea al Quirinale in Rome today.

xx-archit The next logical step, The Muji House. More, at World Changing. Via Antipixel.

xx-archit Not only is Brownstoner a terrific place to visit (even if you don't live in New York, nor really care much about real estate), following the ongoing renovations of their dilapidated-yet-gorgeous five-story house made it all the better.

xx-archit I want to stay in this place.

xx-archit Cool. Build Your Own Chicago Postcard Models from the Wurlington Brothers Press. What, no Monadnock Building?

xx-archit The lighthouses that line the River Thames. Via Things.

xx-archit Armin writes, "Cool Vegas neon site with facts about each sign. A decent gallery. And, how cool is this?"

xx-archit An excellent database of the world's longest tunnels. Via Things.

xx-archit Normally when I stumble upon something like this film, The City Part I and The City Part II, created in 1939 by Lewis Mumford, Aaron Copland and Ralph Steiner, I would write a long enthusiastic post about it, but Dan Hill of City of Sound has done the job already. Brilliant.

xx-archit Maybe if we redo our studio space we could use the Corydon M. Johnson Co. Advertising Agency of Bethpage NY as a model. The Composing Room. The Consumer Art Dept. The Technical Illustration Dept. And of course, The Conference Room.

xx-archit "This is not an art project. No vision, no interpretations, no artistic contributions or ambiguities. This is simply a faithful rendering of the decorations of the Moscow metro."

xx-archit Like something out of a dark and eerie science fiction film, these photos from the Tokyo G-Cans Project, "an underground water draining system to help prevent the overflow of major waterways during the wet typhoon season," are just stunning. Via Josh Rubin.

xx-archit North Central Freeway: The Initial Study with revised I-95 Northeast Freeway 1963-64. The study evaluated "local impacts upon residential displacement and division as well as parkland." Very important issues to be sure but we're more interested in the the beautiful maps and information design. Via the unstoppable Bezembinder's.

xx-archit BV Doshi's School of Architecture, Ahmedabad, India as a popup card. Tokyo's City Hall is nice too. Found among other things.

xx-archit "There are not that many buildings by Tadao Ando in Europe and given the fact that it (The Langen Foundation) is situated in a densely populated area and easy to reach by car, it is bound to become a site of pilgrimage for architecture enthusiasts." More pictures here and an interview with Ando at Designboom.

xx-archit Modular Dwellings.

xx-archit Bridging the Drive Pedestrian Bridge Design for Lake Shore Drive. Finalists posted.

xx-archit More on Millau from the Guardian, via our man in Toronto

xx-archit Amazing. Foster and Partners' Millau Viaduct. Here's the official site. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Bijzondere historische tankstations. 'Particular historical filling stations.' Great survey, only Dutch, but the pix will help you choose which to translate. Via Bezembinder's.

xx-archit Archi.ru hosts a spectacular photo series from 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. Check this and this and especially this. Via the newly deployed Weblog Paperholic.

xx-archit "The thing that worries me the most is that everyone wears the same things, eats the same things, lives in the same environments, this is what worries me the most." From a nicely illustrated DesignBoom Interview with Toyo Ito. Also, see the book Toyo Ito: Blurring Architecture 1971-2005 at YWFT.

xx-archit Classic midcentury residential architecture at Modern Phoenix includes this nice remodel of a Haver home by Michael P. Johnson and lots of links and background material too. Via Scrubbles.

xx-archit Berlin, 1945-1985. Found among other things.

xx-archit Scroll down to the entry titled The Sound of One Book at Freegorifero. Yes Fabio, we feel it too.

xx-archit "Railway stations seem to be open, but are actually closed. They seem to be closed, but are actually open. They are special spaces, unlike the closed package of normal architecture. This work attempts to clarify the special character of railway station space." The Shin-Minamata High Speed Rail Station. Via Free Gorifero.

xx-archit The Scottish Parliament and The Dubai Autodrome. Just two pix from a great resource for browsing, The Archinect Image Gallery.

xx-archit Dan Hill of City of Sound calls this "a quick uninformed 'review' in images and words" of Frank Gehry's new Ray and Maria Stata Center. We can only hope to be so uninformed.

xx-archit A team of filmmakers is in pre-pro for a documentary called Leisurama about Raymond Loewy, vacation homes and "affordable methods of escapism" like this beauty. Via Boing Boing.

xx-archit "I am a visual man, working with eyes and hands." From a 1959 audio interview with Le Corbusier, answering a question about what makes true architecture?

xx-archit Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelonia, 75th Anniversary. The 'virtual visit' pix are harshly lit but give a nice feel for the space. Via Freegorifero. Related: Our favorite building anywhere. Jason's visit to Farnsworth House.

xx-archit "Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind." Found with other first-class links, as per the usual, at the new Well Vetted, #26.

xx-archit The Cooper Union unveils plans for a new academic building, designed by Morphosis as an innovative learning environment. Amazing. Check the gallery. Via Archinect.

xx-archit " The Archinect School Blog Project. We have recruited representatives from a collection of architecture programs around the world to maintain blogs documenting their experiences and discoveries from each institution during the fall 2004 semester."

xx-archit " The Water Cube will be one of the most dramatic and exciting venues to feature sporting events for the Beijing Olympics in 2008." From the proposed National Swimming Center. Thanks Carlos. Slow-loading but worth the wait.

xx-archit If one is going to live in a box, why not make it a really really cool box. via surfstation.

xx-archit Marshall points us to this photo gallery. "July 27, 2004. My visit to the Villa Savoye, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Janneret, in Poissy." From Jason Farago's Sapheneia.

xx-archit Tall Buildings, a new exhibition at MoMA. "A focused study of twenty-five tall buildings... designed within the last decade for sites around the world."

xx-archit Today's Chicago Tribune features a piece on what's left of the White City built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition [reg req]. If the Trib piece leaves you hungry for more stories of the White City, there are a few dandies here.

xx-archit Kristi Cameron's Metropolis Magazine piece on the swell-looking NYC restaurant, Public. Created by the design group, Avroko.

xx-archit The World's Tallest Virtual Building is Mr. Wong's Soup'Partments. The construction project was terminated long ago but the structure still stands, mighty and tall. Via the Ftrain.

xx-archit Undercity, a guerrilla historian in Gotham. " Like a living being, a city does not willingly reveal its complexity and secrets to any random stranger." Via Blurbism.

xx-archit A comprehensive visit (with tons of photos) to Frank Gehry's new MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center. A feature of the recently reconstructed Archinect.

xx-archit Classic movie theaters: Some demolished, others renovated; in Baroque, Art Nouveau and even Egyptian styles; many in the US, a few in New Zealand. This and more at Cinema Treasures.

xx-archit Danvers State Insane Asylum. Abandoned since 1992, over fourteen structures currently reside on the highlands and all are scheduled for demolition in late 2004. Lots of interesting history and eerie photos here, some in a gallery called 'Tunnels.' Via the new and improved Blurbism.

xx-archit 3D models of urban Chicago in the Windy City Project.

xx-archit Link o' the month. Expo-Park from Vasily Bazhenov till Vasily Bychkov, architecture of exhibition pavilions from the collection of the Schusev State Museum of Architecture. Not much text in support of this exhibition and in some ways none needed. Faves: I. II. III. Spectacular. Via The Cartoonist.

xx-archit The LV Home Kit by Rocio Romero. Prefab modern. Via Blurbism.

xx-archit Space FX creates and installs intergrated entertainment and electronics systems for intelligent homes. Their site, by Liquidchrome, is terrific and the photos in the 'gallery' and 'case studies' sections demonstrate an amazing attention to detail and a clean, modern aesthetic. Via Netdiver.

xx-archit Nicely collected, illustrated and documented. The Crystal Palace, The Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations. Via the Cartoonist.

xx-archit Frank Lloyd Wright designed a high-rise? Who knew? OK, *I* didn't. Now I have a reason to visit Oklahoma.

xx-archit 15 Rules for rebuilding the world. Or anything else for that matter.

xx-archit "In an arcology, the built and the living interact as organs would in a highly evolved being." The Arcosanti Project by Italian architect Paolo Soleri . For 30 years, he's funded the project through sales of bells.

xx-archit The Quik House "can be delivered anywhere in the U.S. eight weeks from the time of your order. During that time, we recommend that you obtain your building permits and build the foundation. From the time of your order to the day you move in should be less five months." Via MarcHDesign.

xx-archit The Official Souvenir Flash Card Set of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, ED-U-Cards. Dig the IBM Pavilion and The Schaefer Center. Via Plep.

xx-archit Norman Foster's new Beijing Airport versus Richard Rogers new Shanghai Airport.

xx-archit The Mall War continues. Mike writes, "Not to steal anyone's thunder or dare to challenge the commercial history of Wisconsin or Minnesota, but here's some info on what could be dubbed 'the first mall.'"

xx-archit Andrew from Osaka via Wisconsin, writes "Sorry... Valley Fair Mall in Appleton, Wisconsin was the first enclosed mall built in the US. This is a USA Grade-A argument maker between folks from Wisconsin and Minnesota."

xx-archit Nearly 50 years ago Victor Gruen began work on what would become the worlds first shopping mall, The SoutHDale Shopping Center, which would lead Frank Lloyd Wright to ask, "What is this, a railroad station or a bus station?" The rest is, as they say, history.

xx-archit Levittown, Pennsylvania was the largest planned community constructed by a single builder in the United States. The State Museum of Pennsylvania is hosting a big, detailed online exhibition on the subject. It's worth a long look but if you're pressed for time, go right to the kitchen. Found in a list.

xx-archit MoCoLoco. Modern Contemparary Design. Via The Sachs Report.

xx-archit From the London-based Foreign Office Architects, a well-designed Flash site on compact architecture. Link via No Sense of Place.

xx-archit The delicious Blue Moon Hotel in Groningen, Holland, as photographed by Christian Richters for Kultureflash. Via NSOP.

xx-archit The beauty of the land and the water on the shore of Lake Superior inspired the people who designed and built this cabin and this website, The Tofte Project.

xx-archit FabPrefab, "a web resource dedicated to tracking developments in the realm of 'modernist prefab dwellings'."

xx-archit "Hoerde Torch is dead. She fell in grace, and she took her time: more than 12 seconds, twice as long as predicted. After inclining less than ten degrees, it seemed as she stood still in the air for a short while." Lovely photo series from Hebig.

xx-archit "When it was first constructed in Colorado in 1969 by Charles Deaton, the house was considered an eyesore by some of its neighbors, but now it's a landmark." The house from Woody Allen's 'Sleeper,'

xx-archit The Ontario College of Art and Design is building a new facility. It's er, um, really something. This guy doesn't like it much and I myself don't exactly know what to say about it, except "Thanks" to Marshall for bringing it to my attention and posting a couple pix of it in under construction.

xx-archit Living inside an elephant. Strange and unusual buildings.

xx-archit "Before the invention of modern billboards, sign painters used to paint advertisements and company names directly onto building walls. These gradually fading painted signs are known as ghost signs."

xx-archit "Van Alen had publicly announced the intended height for the Chrysler Building at 925 feet, but he and Chrysler wanted to claim the title of world's tallest structure so badly they planned and secretly assembled the 180 foot needle-like finial inside the tower. When the building was nearing completion, the finial was hoisted into place, making the Chrysler Building the world's tallest and leaving 40 Wall Street in its dust by 172 feet." From Building the Chrysler Building by Emily Zimmerman. Found among other things.

xx-archit "Fallingwater has only a little to do with architecture and engineering: the quality we perceive here is essentially spiritual." From Jonathan Yardley's review of "Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House" by Franklin Toker. More info and photos here

xx-archit A virtual tour of VW's transparent factory.

xx-archit Decay is beautiful. Art In Ruins.

xx-archit Presentation of Competition for the Architecture Design of the 2008 Olympic National Stadium. My vote goes to B12. Amazing. Via K10k.

xx-archit The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's Home House Project in which artists and architects proposed new designs for single family housing for low- and moderate-income families using Habitat for Humanity's basic 3-and-4 bedroom house as a point of departure. Award winning designs are posted and it's a nice browse although the images are tantalizilngly small.

xx-archit Home, A place to live. The Housing Design Awards 1997-2003. A varied collection of excellent projects, well-organized and displayed. The PDF files that accompany most entries are excellent too. Thanks Mabe.

xx-archit Over a decade of impressive architecture projects at Volker Staab, Berlin, Germany.

xx-archit Workspheres from the MoMA Archives. "The official office awaits most of us every weekday and typically hosts us for about eight hours." Is it the type of space we would wish for if we could start over and design the environment for the work that gets done and not the other way 'round? Probably not.

xx-archit The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by architect Frank Gehry and the new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, "will be one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world, providing both visual and aural intimacy for an unparalleled musical experience."

xx-archit The Changing of the Avant-Garde, Visionary architectural drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection, at MoMA. "The Gilman Collection focuses on radical projects from the 1960s and 1970s and includes some of the most famous utopian drawings of the twentieth century."

xx-archit Loads of signs. Here and here.

xx-archit Ukranian bus stop shelters.

xx-archit "Roadside Peek will take you on a roadside journey in time. As you travel, visit old motels, bowling alleys, drive-in theatres, neon signs, petrol pumps, googie sites, tiki villages, and much more."

xx-archit Dead malls.

xx-archit If you've read The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson or if you are at all interested in Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893, you may be curious as to what the buildings and landscape of this dream city actually looked like. This should help satisfy your curiosity.

xx-archit "A weekly dose of architecture looks at contemporary architectural works with architectural and/or cultural significance. The broad focus of the articles is the ideas embedded within the works."

xx-archit Prospect, a New Urbanist community in Colorado, is a uniquely livable blend of traditional and modern planning concepts, built out in a broad range of architectural styles.

xx-archit The Best example of deconstructive post-modern architecture.

xx-archit "Too bad execs at Disney did not have more foresight as The House of the Future would arguably be one of the most popular exhibits there today -- had it not been demolished in 1967."

xx-archit Brigata Italia #1.0, The RED Issue features a great illustrated piece on architect Louis Kahn.

xx-archit Modern Ruins by Phillip Buehler. "I photograph modern ruins because I find it disturbing to find familiar objects and technology to be abandoned. I'm reminded that nothing is permanent, that everything is always in a state of transition." Via Blurbism.

xx-archit Body Movies, a relational architecture installation. Complete and utter genius. An amazing installation and the movie outlining the concept and execution is mesmerizing. Via mefi.

xx-archit When we build it they will come.

xx-archit The abandoned subway stations of New York and disused platforms of London - images, mystery and nostalgia galore.

xx-archit From MIT, a fabulous collection of links entitled Homes of the Future of the Past. Includes lots of great stuff. When living here in Chile, don't throw rocks. A movie from General Motors' 1960 World's Fair Exhibit called Futurama.

xx-archit Homes made from 727s. Via America's No. 1 website.

xx-archit Gunter Henn's Transparent Factory, Volkswagon's ultra-sleek manufacturing facility in Dresden can be examined online. Via K10k.

xx-archit "Hey friend, say friend, come on over, if you're looking for happiness, this is the place!" Our friends at Portage have discovered the National Archives of Canada site dedicated to Expo 67 in Montreal. David recommends that you not miss the Flash animation at the open, and boy is he right.

xx-archit Want to fire up an argument in a room full of architects? Start quoting Nikos A. Salingaros who says "I have found, to my surprise, that architects are not interested in laws of architecture. They prefer to design buildings on the basis of artistic fashion and ephemeral philosophical concerns." Then he really gets going. Via Archinect.

xx-archit Over 12 days in 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave a 42-hour lecture on his life's work. This extraordinary site has the complete transcript as well as audio and video of the event. Via BrainLog.

xx-archit Almost a MoOM link: The Periodic Table Table.

xx-archit In the future, I predict, every person will have a doppelblogger providing a daily debunking of everything he says or writes. New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp has his already.

xx-archit These guys have been doing some serious trespassing and we're richer for it. Via blurbism.

xx-archit An explosion of custom neon typography and an innocent and attractive "modern" architecture is what Early Vegas is all about, baby. To stake your own claim on the strip you'll probably need the Las Vegas Collection, from House Industries.

xx-archit From 1908 to 1940, Sears sold more than 100,000 ready made "kit houses" through their mail-order Modern Homes program. At the The Sears Modern Homes website you can look at large scans of original catalog pages whose renderings of houses, price listings, and original sales pitches will make you wish it was 1910 and you had $1,500 in your pocket.

xx-archit Architect Alessandro Cancelliere's beautifully crafted plastic models of buildings.

xx-archit File this under "underappreciated (until now) everyday stuff." The Holiday Inn sign.

xx-archit Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the village of Box, in Wiltshire England. A modern, organic reinvention of an historical architectural design displayed in a thoughtfully constructed site.

xx-archit Building the Washington Metro. The story of the planning, design and construction of Washington's mass transit system.

xx-archit Abandoned stations on the New York subway.

xx-archit The Moscow Metro: The Underground Dream. 'The historical photographs and contemporary documentation on this website illustrate not only the evolution of a rapid mass transit, but also the remarkable attention paid to aesthetic media -- architecture, sculpture, painting and decorative arts -- in a monumental public works project. ' Only the pages for the First Line are completed at the moment, but this is still a fascinating site.

xx-archit Virtual tours of Tokyo's recent architecture and Prague's twentieth century architecture. From Ellipsis, which publishes wonderful 'travel guides' to modern architecture in major cities around the world.

xx-archit The Vanishing Wall. The 'East Side Gallery', bizarrely yet beautifully decorated, is one of the few remaining parts of the Berlin Wall.

xx-archit Marshall Sokoloff writes, "Along the lines of recent Cold War posts: Missile Bases, unique underground properties.

xx-archit What lies beneath London? As well as the Underground, there are abandoned stations, sewers, buried rivers, Roman roads, bomb shelters and the Post Office railway.

xx-archit Mall destroyed by Blues Brothers still in ruins, guarded by Dobermans.

xx-archit The challenge, design and engineering of London's Millennium Bridge, the 325m steel structure links the City of London at St. Paul's Cathedral with the Tate Modern Gallery at Bankside.

xx-archit The Blur Building is a planned media pavillion for Swiss Expo 2002. "The pavilion is made of filtered lake water shot as a fine mist through 13,000 fog nozzles creating an artificial cloud that measures 300 feet wide by 200 feet deep by 65 feet high." via Textism

xx-archit Eric Helin writes, "so many countries, so much architecture."

xx-archit Creepy, yet strangely compelling. A photographic tour of abandoned buildings, complete with directions on how to break in. Stay out of the cellars of the Castle of Mesen. As featured on Metropolis.

xx-archit The winners of the Archinect Communication Booth Competition are online. The idea for this competition is brilliant and the winning entries amazing. Take some time to pour over these.

xx-archit Pity I don't speak Dutch. The look and feel of the site for the magazine, de Architect, is inspiring, especially the featured work of Werner Sobek.

xx-archit Animated Manhattan. "a computer model which simultaneously presents a layered, cartographic history of the lower half of Manhattan Island, and an exploded timeline chronicling the real-estate devlopment of high-rise office buildings which constitute the skylines of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan." Incredibly smart, rich and beautiful, presented by Brian McGrath.

xx-archit Mies in Berlin, Mies in America.

xx-archit L.A Obscura: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman From USC, a great collection of buildings by the likes of Richard Neutra, who, for residential design, put the "mod" into "modern."

xx-archit Allied Works Architecture from Portland.

xx-archit Big Buildings: "Included in this survey are structures that were at one time the world's tallest or that are Jumbos or Super Jumbos, categories invented for this exhibition that describe size measured by volume."

xx-archit The Futuro House, an ideal weekend cottage for the family of tomorrow.

xx-archit A photographic tour "through the fabulous and vanishing ruins of my beloved Detroit."

xx-archit I remember being seven years old and going there for the first time. The walls are glass and angle inwards so that, if you have tennis shoes and get a running start, you can run up the windows and slide down again until your mom finds out.

xx-archit Do Design Office, an LA architecture firm, has crafted some clean and inspiring spaces and catalouged them in a slick site. Check the Max House if you're fond of concrete.

xx-comics "...and the tiger creates for the groovy girl animal who's just about to evolve." Kane on 1967's Mod Love.

xx-comics "...maybe I'll spend the afternoon drawing Tim Pawlenty, just for myself." NYer News Desk: Trumpspotting.

xx-comics "...please consider the following images my small contribution to the digital remembrance of all things Bass." The Nonist on mostly unknown Saul Bass television title sequences. Splendid.

xx-comics Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb."

xx-comics This collection of art and photos all came from the Ray Patin Studios. They produced hundreds of amazing black and white TV commericals all through the 50's and early 60's." There's sure some style here. Via I Like.

xx-comics Some interesting ways to get some variety into those boring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page!" I'm partial to 'open panel complete object.' Via TMN.

xx-comics The Hall of Best Knowledge combines lush imagery with lucid prose - imagine the works of Chaucer projected on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - creating a weekly learning experience that is without equal in this or any age." A lot like Ruben Bolling's brilliant comics, but more type-based. Via Waxy.

xx-comics "'Poing Thuk' = Friar Tuck Shot In The Head By An Arrow. 'Shkalink Shkaloink' = Nurse Milking Blood from Man's Fingers." From The Don Martin Dictionary.

xx-comics "2. They had to be panels of Batman himself, which meant that this wasn't just a list of Marshall Rogers and Neal Adams' amazing shots of the Joker." So you know, the best Batman panels ever. Via Casual Optimist.

xx-comics "A blueprint of a piece of equipment designed to make cartoons more realistic and enjoyable."

xx-comics "A cute way of thinking about caricature is like an inside-out sushi." Steven Heller chats with Steve Brodner.

xx-comics "A one year art challenge to connect with 52 influential geeks from different disciplines (art, movies, TV, computing, science). A trading card portrait complete with stats will be created each week of the featured geek." Geek a Week. Via MeFi.

xx-comics "A well-placed BRAKKA-BA-DOOM! Really livens up the page, I tell you." Via The Nonist.

xx-comics "Almost all comics presented are from the paleocomicologist's own collections unless otherwise stated." Comically Vintage.

xx-comics "And so Hip Hop turkey got to live another year."

xx-comics "As children we couldn't wait see what situations our favorite super heros would be written into. As adults we can't wait see how those situations will be drawn. Our aim is to pay tribute to the talented artists of the comic industry." Two Page Spread. Magnificent. Via Rands.

xx-comics "Atoll, A forgotten military base somewhere in the Pacific... There, far away from civilization, laws and rules, they take care of their insanities." Fallen Art from Martin Kobylecki and Tomek Baginski, creators of The Cathedral.

xx-comics "Basically, there doesn't seem to be many places online that give a comprehensive collection of his work. So here is one." Selected illustrations from Moebius. Via @tomgauld.

xx-comics "But it's all somehow familiar. Stay close, Shorty." Indiana Jones meets Han Solo, from Star Wars Tales #19, from Dark Horse. Via Mefi.

xx-comics "Can you find any differences between a regular Dick Tracy strip and a random collection of panels? Via The Comics Curmudgeon

xx-comics "Come friends, yon monster of the deep will shelter us." Marbleriver's Space Comics from the 40's. Via Irregular Orbit.

xx-comics "Consider the drama of the scene. Save something for the big moments." and other wise instruction from Light and Shadow by Rowland B. Wilson at Temple of the Seven Golden Camels. Color too.

xx-comics "D'Oh! They're vinyl!" For KG, Kidrobot's Simpsons mini figures.

xx-comics "Excuse me, sir, aren't you Benjamin Frankin?" "Yes, I am. I'm also hot and thirsty!" Stupid Comics looks at Marvel's The Adventures of Kool-Aid Man.

xx-comics "Fascists! I knew it!" George Orwell Writes a Novel, from Kate Beaton's always terrific History Project comics.

xx-comics "Gentlemen, the Cartoon." The history of the cartoon as told through the lens of the late, great Punch Magazine.

xx-comics "GIF is the most popular animation and short film format that's ever existed." Animated GIFs Triumphant, by Anil Dash. Amen.

xx-comics "Go on- say it!" Sci-fi v Literary Fiction, by Tom Gauld.

xx-comics "Has Glenn seen this? Trust me, he would not be impressed."

xx-comics "Having dirty terminal is like kissin' y'r gal thru a plate o' glass." BibliOdyssey on the US Army's Preventative Maintenance Magazine from 1951-72 featuring the work of legendary illustrator Will Eisner. Great fun. Here's the whole amazing archive from the VCU Libraries Digital Collection.

xx-comics "Here you can study various experiments and variations and the gradual change from bands to balloons. Even the later examples sometimes have tiny leftovers of the 'bands' on the other side of the balloon." Evolution of Speechballoons. Via Things.

xx-comics "He's the Sidekick, I'm the Batman." Superhero Remix (Hip Hop Classics Edition).

xx-comics "Highly sophisticated art technique for an educational anti-drug uptight comic book like this, and years before experimental comics of today." I'll say. Hooked 1966. From Ethan Persoff's site, where you'll also find the magnificent The 1957 Atomic Revolution Comic Book.

xx-comics "Hopefully we've done the writing some justice." I'd say so. Adam Gault and Stefanie Augustine's beautiful Gettysburg Address revisited. Via Motionographer.

xx-comics "I don't know much of anything about A Trip Through the Des Moines Register and Tribune With Peanuts except that it's oddly transfixing."

xx-comics "I just try to stay alert to the world, to read widely. That actually constitutes about 80 percent of what I do, simply front-loading." Chip Kidd chats with Garry Trudeau.

xx-comics "I know that each and every one of you is licking your lips in anticipation as one of life's more succulent mysteries is about to disrobe and reveal its undergarments for you." John Kricfalusi on The Flintstones animators. Swell.

xx-comics "I see the comic book character Aquaman as the greatest example of reinvention gone wrong, and here's why: There was nothing wrong with him to begin with." The Aquaman Argument. Via PCL.

xx-comics "I suddenly realized this was how Superman would sit. He wouldn't puff out his chest or posture heroically, he would be totally chilled." All-Star Superman.

xx-comics "If you only read one Royal wedding related comic..." Forbidden Planet reviews The Official Kate Middleton Story, by David O'Connell.

xx-comics "I'll order the nachos. You'll order the bacon cheeseburger. You'll briefly notice a trace of unease flicker across my face. I'll look as though I'm about to say something. I will not say anything." The Bacon Story, which explains why Rosie Dee doesn't eat bacon. Via Beer or Kid.

xx-comics "In 1947 Life Magazine asked some famous comic strip artists to to draw their famous characters while wearing a blindfold." Here are the results.

xx-comics "In 1972, GAF produced 3 View Master reels featuring the adventures of the GI Joe Adventure Team. This fuelled my love for the Adventure Team more than anything I had. Here they were in color, in 3D, in lavish settings, setting wrong right using the gear I had in my own toy box." Via Screenhead.

xx-comics "In 2002 Gez Fry decided, that he wants to make a living out of Japanese style illustration - without being experienced in drawing." Illustrated interview at PingMag. Via IBC.

xx-comics "It is a robust self-correcting legal OS. But it was written in an arcane code long ago." KK* on that thing you've always meant to read.

xx-comics "It just sucks." "Can you be more specific?" "No." Tom Fishburne's Brand Camp. Via Adland.

xx-comics "LaGuardia, and hurry --I've got a flight in six hours." Timely. A collection of New Yorker airport security cartoons. Via @maudnewton.

xx-comics "Master of Elusion, foe of tyranny, and champion of liberation - The Escapist!" Sweet preview of the edition which contains the first two issues of the comic book and features an original story by Michael Chabon. Via TMN

xx-comics "Me and Sander have put together a small reel showcasing a few experiments with motion effects and Sanders skills at producing audio."

xx-comics "Much randomness ahead..." Hey Oscar Wilde!

xx-comics "Not a substitute for reading the text or for classroom discussion of the text." Classic Comix: Ulysses.

xx-comics "Not many people can say that Spider-Man cost them their girlfriend and their drug dealer, but Ralph Bakshi is not an ordinary man." From Chris Lackner's profile at The Globe and Mail. Via Slatch.

xx-comics "OK my interest in the film 300 is bordering on obsession. I thought it might be interesting to see how closely Zack Snyder is sticking to the original comic books. Pretty damn closely it appears."

xx-comics "One of the most popular pictures in my photostream, by far, is a mosaic that I created from 'S-Shields' from my collection of Superman action figures." Via the mighty DDC.

xx-comics "Please print this flowchart and tape it near your screen. Congratulations: you're now the local computer expert!"

xx-comics "Porn movies and Disney are responsible for the most frustrated human beings I know."

xx-comics "Recently artist Liam Stevens used pencil, paper, exacto knives and much time to craft a lovely retro stop-action music video." KK* on "Waiting." More of Stevens' work here.

xx-comics "Sea-gherkins!" Captain Haddock (from Tintin) Insult Generator v0.9. Via The Cartoonist.

xx-comics "Six drawings per movie, in sequence, no movie stars." Guess the movie based on Paul Roger's illustrations. Via Mental Floss.

xx-comics "Some indie comics artists point out great mainstream comics art, to make up for the usual 'how we would do it if we were there' stuff we generally pull." Via Ample Sanity.

xx-comics "That's right thumbsucker, I see you." Frank Miller's Charlie Brown. Via William Gibson.

xx-comics "The animated story of one man's epic journey, created entirely from public domain symbols. In other words, an airport story told in the language of airport infographics." Airport.

xx-comics "The lurid content led to congressional hearings, widespread comic book burnings, and ultimately the censorship of the industry." Enjoy.

xx-comics "The moment it is successfull, kill it." A rare interview with the great Ronald Searle for his 90th birthday.

xx-comics "The thing to avoid, of course, would be the 'Legion of Substitute X-Men' stigma." The original Kitty Pryde drawing.

xx-comics "This is my pill. It is round. It is pink. It makes me not care. Watch me take my round, pink pill... and not care." The Executive Coloring Book.

xx-comics "This process is the whole idea behind PSST! - a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children's game Telephone and applied to the arts of motion graphics, animation and film-making." Former CP crew member Ant did the first section of this beauty.

xx-comics "To the vector belong the spoils." Marilyn Ferdinand on The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, a 1965 animated film by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble. Via GCD.

xx-comics "VII: Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot." Old but still funny. The Cartoon Laws of Physics. Thanks Coop.

xx-comics "What mere mortal countenance could inspire this paragon of virtue and manliness?" Flubber Soul the Holy Book of Fred McMurray, number three in the most excellent Zine Week Series at Omega Channel. Via Eye of the Goof.

xx-comics "When I was a kid I ate whatever cereal had the best cartoon character on the box..." Copiously illustrated with videos, John Kricfalusi's Guide to Surviving the End of Television.

xx-comics "When I was growing up they were promising us a great future where we all had jet packs to fly around with, and we're still waiting. So in the meantime, I'm making movies about that future." Brad Bird wins the Tex Avery Animation Award.

xx-comics "When in doubt... lower the horizon!" Storyboarding The Simpsons Way (pdf). Via Ryan Singer. Makes for a nice compliment to Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work, courtesy of Joel Johnson.

xx-comics "While my letters page cartoons for the Guardian take a summer break I hope to make a weekly comic and put it here. This is the first." Tom Gauld's Mission to Jupiter!

xx-comics "Why Superman Will Always Suck"

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xx-comics Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. "Like Norman Rockwell meets Shel Silverstein and makes a book about the Universal Horror monsters." David at Ironic Sans interviews the author.

xx-comics Hans Bacher's Animation Treasures is a mandatory bookmark, and not just for his painstaking recreations of painted backgrounds. I love when he carefully assembles a set of screengrabs to make a point, as in this post on Peter Webber's Girl With a Pearl Earring.

xx-comics Retired Superheroes.

xx-comics Vintage weather report animations from Bedazzled.

xx-comics Comics without words.

xx-comics Covered. Vintage comic book covers redrawn by modern artists. Check out Ryan Dunlavey covering G.I. Joe and Robert Goodin's revised Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

xx-comics GCD, from Cannes, on Persepolis, an animated "first-person tale of congenitally rebellious Marjane Satrapi, who was 8 years old when the Islamic Revolution transformed her native Teheran." Site.

xx-comics Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobbering Time!!! Page after page of authors or literary characters drawn by illustrators and comic artists. I especially love the latest additions by Scott Campbell.

xx-comics Black Ink Monday is "a non-violent protest by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), is a response to the Tribune Company's recent elimination of editorial cartooning positions at several of its newspapers."

xx-comics Science fiction meets the Taliban in this elegant, impeccably written Web comic.

xx-comics Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker. Via Right Brain Terrain.

xx-comics Zombies vs. Robots, a new comic so conceptually sound it is self-evidently perfect. Via Mr. Future.

xx-comics How to Make Garfield Funny. Brilliant. Via Waxy.

xx-comics Garfield: Lost in Translation, "quite existential when translated into Japanese and then back into English."

xx-comics The Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products. ACME is a worldwide leader of many manufactured goods. A Mr. W. E. Coyote is a big customer of theirs, although not always a satisfied one.

xx-comics Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, the condensed edition.

xx-comics Arturo writes of Creature Comforts, available in October, 3032, "Strange little creatures indeed, and the animations are really cool." A promotion for the novel Eve by Aurelio O'Brien.

xx-comics Warner Art, a private collection of vintage Warner Brothers animation art.

xx-comics The Origins of American Animation at tLoC. "Fifteen years before creating his King Kong, former cartoonist Willis O'Brien animated these clay-modeled dinosaurs and giant ape. He produced eight such one-reelers for the Edison Company in 1917."

xx-comics Skeletal drawings of your favorite cartoon characters. Via Metafilter.

xx-comics Sparth's Co:lab is the portfolio site of videogame designer Nicholas Bouvier. Great technology, sci-fi work with a natural, painterly style. Thanks Brian,

xx-comics Samantha's Rave Doll Dressing Book from 1967. Sort of like The Bourne Ultimatum, only not so grim. Via Mr. Dante Fontana.

xx-comics Veggie characters straight from the aisles of Japanese supermarkets.

xx-comics Intern Architects in Hell. Best yet: " On Gargoyles."

xx-comics Pivot The Movie, a fresh new animated short film by the team behind Tryrants from Afar.

xx-comics The Planet Named Desire. "Enjoy It And You Will Find It Wonderful." Agreed.

xx-comics The Look of Love: The Rise and Fall of the Photo-Realistic Newspaper Strip, 1946-1970. Fantastic illustrated article. Via The Cartoonist.

xx-comics The Simpsons Go To Paris with Linda Evangelista, a spread in Harpers Bazaar. Via Zulkey.

xx-comics Red Ink like Blood offers Jordan Crane's excellent mini-comix for sale. Also, posted as a public service, is the PDF "Re: A Guide to Reproduction, A primer on Xerography, Silkscreening and Offset Printing." Great insight. Great design. Great read. Via YipYop.

xx-comics Soviet sci-fi cartoons from the 80's. Via Mefi.

xx-comics A famous person has died.

xx-comics "Here is a real quick step-by-step look at how I color using Photoshop."

xx-comics The Magic Animator. "...cut out the pieces, fasten them together, and start posing your figure as it guides you into a career in the animation industry!" Via Eyebeam.

xx-comics Video interview with the team from OOOii about designing and implementing the look of technology for the recent Star Trek film. Via Infosthetics.

xx-comics "Poorly lived and poorly died, poorly buried and no one cried."

xx-comics Bit and Run.

xx-comics Marcel the Shell with Shoes on.

xx-comics Nowhere Near Here, animation via light stencil by Pahnl Whatnow.

xx-comics An indecisive monster.

xx-comics We Come In Peace. "Some strange tales with some strange creatures. To watch an episode, eat a stoneball with this little monster." Via The Virtual Community of Ultra Awesomeness.

xx-comics The Cartoon Pop Music Page, examples of obscure old cartoons containing even more obscure Tin Pan Alley songs (via Cartoon Research).

xx-comics The Weird World of Jimmy Olsen. Favorite line from Jimmy Olsen #62: "Good grief, Jimmy, your nose stretched a foot when Lois tweaked it!" Via Drawn.

xx-comics Star Wars in a notebook!

xx-comics Big Bunny films. Cute but deadly.

xx-comics Marshall writes, " Graham Roumieu. Brilliant stuff, like this."

xx-comics Bolt City. Via the K.

xx-comics Cartoon Brew on Hans Bacher's fab new blog, where he is "painstakingly recreating pan backgrounds from classic animated films currently on dvd (mostly Disney ones) to offer a sense of what the original backgrounds looked like before the characters were composited on top." Bookmark Animation Treasures.

xx-comics "Kookie." Via Bibi.

xx-comics Watermelon Love. From Mesh Year Four. Via Tween.

xx-comics You Were Born and So You're Free. Anders Nilsen draws his way out of grief.

xx-comics Make Mine Shoebox by the Chris Harding Animation Concern. Educational.

xx-comics Sentinel Louie, 1935 by Otto Soglow. Found at Coconino Classics found at Papel Continuo.

xx-comics The Elements of a Super-Hero.

xx-comics Superman's Identity Revealed, again and again and again. Via Transbuddha.

xx-comics A map of Springfield. Eeeexxxcellent.

xx-comics CR on a new minimalist animated tv campaign created for Fair & Square, a British mortgage company. Fab.

xx-comics CR interviews Adrian Tomine about his new book Summer Blonde. Also, check these New Yorker covers and other Illustrations.

xx-comics A Short History of America by R. Crumb. Found in a stack of other things.

xx-comics Love from Cube, Creative Computer Company. Thanks Carlos.

xx-comics Cubeecraft. Free, downloadable papercraft toys. Via Transbuddha.

xx-comics Pixar vs. Dreamworks.

xx-comics Delicacy stop-motion animation, set to Verdi's Traviata.

xx-comics Daring Planet posts storyboards! In the "Declassified" section under "Nuts and Bolts." The Planet could use a bit of interstellar help too. Vote for them as a SXSW "Peoples Choice".

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xx-comics d'Holbachie's Cosmos.

xx-comics Dudok de Wit Animation, sweet style. Via lifi.

xx-comics Giflings. A heavy page load of light little animations from Duudle.

xx-comics "Hooked!" 1966 comic book about herion abuse. Not funny. Intentionally anyway. Via !mark.

xx-comics Power For Progress, a 1971 comic book extolling the virtues of the nuclear power industry. Lots more vintage propcomix can be enjoyed at Ethan Persoff's site. "If you're a troubled or perverted person I've got a piece of pop culture or comic book just for you." Via Boing.

xx-comics Mutant Human Species Imminent. "I am now your master for better or worse."

xx-comics What I Wore Today (Drawings Only!) Via I Like.

xx-comics Superheroes as flags.

xx-comics Solid. Some nice weekend reading via Senses Working Overtime.

xx-comics How to Build a Better Graveyard, tips for the aspiring macabre illustrator.

xx-comics Ginger Meggs, the "Peanuts" of Australia. Or something like that. Via Plep.

xx-comics Burning Safari. Fab animated short. Thanks Ant.

xx-comics Graphic Novel Review. Great idea, it's about time. Includes a sneak of Gutsman by Erik Kriek. Via Waxy.

xx-comics Jon Hicks was sorting through some boxes when "a hidden treasure was discovered that had been forgotten for over 20 years. 'The Smash Hits Yearbook 1984' which includes a comic strip telling the Story of the Sex Pistols. "Is the Home Secretary aware of the threat this group poses to the morals of youth?!"

xx-comics The Gooberstory is a tale about how and why the peanut came to see the light of day.

xx-comics Kevin Broome writes, "Have you seen this new video by CG whiz Neill Blomkamp, Alive in Joburg? It is a follow up to his other amazing South African based project Tetra Vaal."

xx-comics Underworld meets Gumby in Leisure Town.

xx-comics Johnny Green's sweet, stop-action spot by for Royal Mail, "Grow."

xx-comics Komaneko is a stop-action cat who wants to make stop-action films. Potential cuteness overload warning. Via Cartoon Brew.

xx-comics Trailer for Makoto Shinkai's The Place Promised in Our Early Days. Sweet. A translation here. Via GCD.

xx-comics Levitated, a collection of organic flash experiments to enjoy and download. Very smart.

xx-comics Indescribable and hilarious selections from the 1978 DC Comics Super Dictionary. Via Daniel.

xx-comics Disco Rout, a stylish animated video for the band Legowelt. Beautiful art direction, flawless execution, cool train. Produced and directed by Lobo in Sao Paulo.

xx-comics Monstrous Craws & Character Flaws, masterpieces of cartoon and caricature at the Library of Congress. Via Bibliodyssey.

xx-comics Herblock's Gift. Selections from the Herb Block Foundation Collection at the Library of Congress. I. II. III.

xx-comics Tastefully Done, the first nude web comic pinup calendar. Via Drawn!

xx-comics El Conejito Suicida.

xx-comics A PDF of the first 15 pages of Matt Coyle's Worry Doll, "A gothic-noir, murder-mystery, disguised as a children's book. Via Pixelsurgeon.

xx-comics How to make stereo anaglyphs, images that work with those red and blue 3D glasses that also come free with Brian Taylor's beautiful Rustboy Book for which JC wrote the introduction, but not while he was wearing 3D glasses.

xx-comics The melancholy deaths of Edward Gorey's children.

xx-comics Pobody's Nerfect. My friend Britton's web page... fonts, icons, portfolio, silliness, etc.

xx-comics We could be heroes.

xx-comics Geweldenaren Van Ver. Do not miss this.

xx-comics Long Day from Pascal. Know the feeling.

xx-comics A woman from the inside out. Via c77.

xx-comics Sebastian's Voodoo.

xx-comics Plus et Plus recently did the identity and a clean series of spots for the UltraHD Network launch. Enjoy.

xx-comics A Polite Winter. Unfolding, enigmatic story, told through illustration. Via Life in the Present.

xx-comics PopBotWorld: A Plan B Science and Entertainment Transmission from Ashley Wood and Tom Muller. Via Drawn.

xx-comics Portfolio of caricatures by Patrice Ricord. Via Netdiver.

xx-comics Eat your peas.

xx-comics Brian Taylor writes, "Here are two of my favourite TV ads of late, by Aardman."

xx-comics Rustboy update. Not to be missed.

xx-comics Rustboy Update!

xx-comics Rustboy has opened a chatroom. Check the interesting threads about our favorite little metal-headed one.

xx-comics Huge collection of cartoons by Sam Cobean, cartoonist for the New Yorker in the '40s and '50s. Via Comics Reporter.

xx-comics Invasion of the Love-Robots. This and tons more at the Golden Age Comic Cover Gallery.

xx-comics Scott Musgrove's paintings are a cross between the artwork in children's literature and an artistically-minded mental patient. So is it any wonder that the guy has his own show on The Cartoon Network?

xx-comics Frank Finds Out by Jim Woodring.

xx-comics Sex, Lies and Fairytales. Via gmt+9.

xx-comics Fleep was an ongoing comic strip in the Asian Times which took place entirely within a phone booth encased in concrete. Not surprisingly, Fleep was cancelled after forty-some strips but it's worth a look online. Via Heaneyland.

xx-comics Max Headroom's Swedish cousins.

xx-comics Spent2000: Three Hearts. Plus, this Shining cover gallery is fab.

xx-comics KShay says this is " too good to miss."

xx-comics Eyeball NYC posts a fab new showreel. SD interviewed the firm as part of our Jewelboxing Case Study series last summer.

xx-comics "St custard's hav a very interesting history if you are interested in hist which few boys are." Via Plep.

xx-comics Strange Sisters. An archive of lesbian paperback artwork from the 50s and 60s.

xx-comics Studio aka for Guinness. Via Monoscope.

xx-comics Album covers by famous cartoonists. Via Kottke.

xx-comics Tintin in stamps. Via Grow a Brain.

xx-comics De facto site for Tintinology and members of the Tintin Cult. Plus the splat files.

xx-comics "The Little Fella", a new animation from the amazing minds at Tokyo Plastic.

xx-comics Watchmen Character Posters: Then and Now, a comparison between 1986 and 2008.

xx-comics The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements.

xx-comics Meet Meline.

xx-comics Bave Circus.

xx-comics Magnetic Sphere video made with Processing. Audio from a mix by Karri O. (Maximum Minimum). Via Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond.

xx-comics Garbage Pail Kids meet Retail Packaging. Retail Packaging meet Garbage Pail Kids. The Top 10 reasons why people love(d) Wacky Packs. [Bonus: Lovely cover of 70s New York Magazine]

xx-comics Vintage Soviet Animation. Via the excellent Cartoon Brew.

xx-comics Wellvetted 15 is up and includes the delightful "From My Room" by Alex Olea.

xx-comics T is for Titus who flew into bits.

xx-comics The Indie Rock Coloring Book, where you can do things like "Color in the Whimsy of Andrew Bird's Whistling!" or "Find All the Birds in Devendra's Beard!" Via bblinks.

xx-comics 3650, an animated short for MTV from ubik. Via Cpluv.

xx-comics What's love for?

xx-comics My Paper Mind. Javan Ivey's "stratastencil" animation technique in which each frame is one piece of 4x6 inch card stock. Via Ze Frank.

xx-comics Corneas Diadem, animated short by Brandon Blommaert. I tend to agree with the comment, "unmitigated fabulosity." Via Booooooom.

xx-comics 1970s Demo Reel from Image West, electronic animation made with the Scanimate Analog computers. More here from Dave Sieg who "owns and maintains the last working Scanimate system." Via davehayden.

xx-comics A Goofy Movie remixed by Cody Richeson in the style of David Lynch. Only brilliant.

xx-comics Ralf writes, "I'm lost for words" and then points to this. 'Over Time is a student film, a tribute of sorts to Muppet creator Jim Henson. It was directed by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrie as a graduation project at the French animation/media school Supinfocom.'

xx-comics Listen to yourself.

xx-comics Youth of Britain: Chill Out. I'm so easily amused...

xx-comics Highly treated 3D city at Elastic Space, inspired by the films of Polish animator Jerzy Kucia. Here'a an enlightening conversation with Kucia from Animation World.

xx-comics The Journal of Cartoon Over-Analyzations. Like it sounds. Via Cartoon Brew.

xx-comics GMUNK.

xx-comics Airport, starring Helvetica Man.

xx-comics Fourteen sketches of Major League ballparks by Gene Mack for The Sporting News, 1946-47. What ever happened to this sort of editorial cartooning? So great.

xx-comics It's Your Home, Wardomatic's scans of a 1956 Better Homes and Gardens project.

xx-comics "Also use caution with Gorka's attempts at retrieving the clam-shell necklace. It must be clear the monster is after the shells, not Slobbo."

xx-comics Happy sixth anniversary, Achewood!

xx-comics Vintage print ads with cartoon elements. Via PCL.

xx-comics Cartoon series on Justice by Hans Arnold. Via Martin Klasch.

xx-comics Alma.

xx-comics Walt Disney's commercial work during the 1950s. Via Firewheel.

xx-comics Kama Balloons by Anton Lobachev. Fun, funny and NSFW. (Unless balloons experimenting with sexual positions is OK at your job.) Check the videos too.

xx-comics As One by Makoto Yabuki.

xx-comics Mike Fontanelli on Walt Kelly and Pogo at ASIFA.

xx-comics A new weblog on Blake and Mortimer, the comic adventure series by Edgar Jacobs that initially appeared in Tintin Magazine. The site's in French but there's plenty to see even if you don't translate it. Via Ralf.

xx-comics Enroute, a short animated journey through "Aerotropolis." Via City of Sound.

xx-comics Buck 2008 Showreel.

xx-comics Cartoon Books Photo Gallery. Click on any cartoonist to see some of his or her volumes of cartoons and related ephemera. Via Paperholic.

xx-comics Clutch Cargo and the "Syncho-Vox" process from TV Guide in 1960 and via Cartoon Brew. Am I the only one who immediately got the theme song stuck in my head? Wanna join me?

xx-comics Dance of the Flight Attendant. Via Kottke.

xx-comics This new website has been authorized by Mr. Daniel Clowes.

xx-comics A Moebius strip comic by Jim Woodring. Brilliant.

xx-comics To the vector belong the spoils. Marilyn Ferdinand on The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble's 1965 animated classic.

xx-comics "Map of the Area Surrounding Our Holiday Home, by Tom Gauld.

xx-comics Meet Emily. Emily is not real.

xx-comics Pyrats.

xx-comics Great Showdowns by Scott C., via Kate B.

xx-comics ASCII-art rock videos. Via uren. dagen. nachten.

xx-comics Valentine's Day at everyone's favorite History Comics site.

xx-comics New symbols for the discerning hobo and other assorted infotoons. Thanks Jeff.

xx-comics The 700 Mole-Men Project. Via Drawn.

xx-comics UNDO from Impactist. Solve the anagrammatic book titles presented in this beautiful animation. A "Cryptology Key" is provided and I certainly needed it. A whip-smart melding of idea and design.

xx-comics Joe Mathlete explains today's Marmaduke. You'd think this would be funny once or twice and that's it. You'd be wrong. Via The Aesthetic.

xx-comics Joel Trussell's Scribble Dumpster, weblog home for the animator of this vid for Jason Forrest's War Photographer.

xx-comics Fundamentals of Animation Drawing from Preston Blair, courtesy of John K. Via Drawn.

xx-comics Halifax Coast writeup about CP fave Kate Beaton of Hark, a Vagrant.

xx-comics "A chronological 2 hour video animation of sky photos. One photo of the sky was taken each day for one year from my 40th birtHDay to my 41st birtHDay." Via Spitting Image.

xx-comics "Landeplage" video by Racecar from Oslo. Totally fab. Also, don't miss their title sequence for Koht På Jobben.

xx-comics Motherland.

xx-comics Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited. Oh yeah. Here's the news.

xx-comics Mary Ellen Bute, Seeing Sound. A bit more information can be found at Data is Nature. If anyone tracks down samples of any of her films online, please let us know. The stills look amazing.

xx-comics Rotating Molecules via CSS 3D Transform, developed for the iPhone IPad by Adam Grossman. Cool, via @meyerweb.

xx-comics MTV Blows Me. Idents by W+K Tokyo. Via TypeNEU.

xx-comics Nomint motion design from Athens Greece. Sweet reel.

xx-comics Presidential Portraits by Patrick Moberg. Still perfect.

xx-comics One Minute Puberty, written and animated by Alexander Gellner. Via Motionographer.

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xx-comics Paths of Hate, directed by Damian Nenow. Incredible animation, watch full-screen. Via Jason Koxvold.

xx-comics "Peripetics" by Zeitguised. A CG film in six acts. Hard to describe but totally mesmerizing. More about the film from Motionograoher. Via Cartoon Brew.

xx-comics The Line by Saul Steinberg. Perfect. Via swissmiss.

xx-comics Preston Blair's 1950s Air Force Recruitment Spot was reportedly accomplished directly under the camera with cut papers and gels. Sweet. Cartoon Brew.

xx-comics London Intrusion, a daily, beautiful series of panels by China Mieville. Make sure to click for larger scans. VIa Dan Wagstaff.

xx-comics Retronomatopeya. Zonk! Via Nack.

xx-comics Romeo and Juliet abridged, by Tom Gauld.

xx-comics Modern Types as depicted by Ronald Searle.

xx-comics Russian Insider on the history and future of Russian animation, Via The Cartoonist.

xx-comics Boy Scouts in Action, from "Scanning Around With Gene."

xx-comics Antony Hare's Siteway Lit: Illuminated Canvases. "I thought it might be a cool idea to create illuminated signs of my portraits a few years ago and it's pretty satisfying to be 'actually doing it.'"

xx-comics Tom Gauld's sketchbook is fab. Tom is also is the man behind an all-time fave, Characters For an Epic Tale. Via the Miss who is Swiss.

xx-comics Stash is legal now, just turned 21.

xx-comics Storyboard Central, fascinating site on boards, comps and process. from the prolific Leif Peng.

xx-comics Tack's Cartoon Tips for the aspiring cartoonist. Wonderful. Via Drawn!. Any excuse will do to relink Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work, courtesy of Joel Johnson.

xx-comics Telephoneme from MK12, so you know it's awesome. The custom font from the film is available free too. Via Dan Wagstaff.

xx-comics Atomic Energy In Comic Books.

xx-comics The Realist, by Asaf Hanuka. A comicumentary about a one family's serach for a home. Brilliant, via Lines and Colors.

xx-comics This Is Where We Live, a sweet, stop-motion film by Apt and Asylum Films celebrating the books from 25 years of 4th Estate publishing. Via Design You Trust.

xx-comics Thursday, "an everyday love story set in the not so distant future." Charming. Motionographer chats with the creator Matthias Hoegg.

xx-comics "This shirt features a picture of a man in a robot suit hugging a girl that is a robot."

xx-comics Tyson Ibele is 18. Check the animation gallery, especially the chopper and oil rig sequence. 18 I said. Sheesh. Via Chris Diclerico.

xx-comics A playful spot for V Water. I'm a sucker for animations that include the artist's hand and pencil. Created by Jenn + Sara.

xx-comics Welcome to Fontevraud, dance and mograf by Francis Cutter & Vincent Nguyen.

xx-comics Winners of Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.

xx-comics WWED.

xx-comics "My hobby: Insisting that real-life objects are Photoshopped." Via Nack.

xx-comics Xkcdedia.

xx-comics Science Valentine from xkcd.

xx-comics Mister Victorian Novel, by Tom Gauld.

xx-comics 1500 covers of UK sci-fi weekly "2000AD" in three and a half minutes. Found among other things.

xx-comics Ensuring the Future of Food. Stylish animation tells the story from Japan. Via Waxy.

xx-comics Gone. Touching 3D animation by Bard Edlund. Via The Cartoonist.

xx-comics Magic Highway USA. Disney's animated view of the future of transportation, circa 1958. Via PartIV.

xx-comics The Cameraman, a lovely animated story from Chris Ware, Jeff Potter, John Kuramoto and TAL.

xx-comics The Whitest Boy! Golden Cage!, a sweet hand-drawn animation by Geoff McFetridge. So you know, the artist was profiled in the third episode of the Western State video series.

xx-comics Yarn City, stop-motion for MusicID.

xx-comics Why Man Creates, animations from 1968, by Saul Bass.

xx-comics Zurich Chamber Orchestra animated spot. Just watch.

xx-comics 1961, a film by Paul Yeh and Oksana Badrak is "an artistic interpretation of cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin's historic flight as first man in space." Spectacular. Via Make Ready.

xx-comics Bomb-Da-Bass for Toyota by Tokyoplastic. Via Feed.

xx-comics Ojingogo, sweet comic series from Coming Up For Air.

xx-comics "Redu" by HunterGatherer. It must have been very complicated to make it this simple.

xx-comics ReFrederator a vintage cartoon every day. Via IO.

xx-comics Snow-Bo is a wonderful and macabre animated short. Via D!

xx-comics Mark Trail plagiarizes itself. Via the daily must-read Comics Curmudgeon.

xx-comics The Hobbit in under two minutes.

xx-comics Twelfth Night in one panel, by Milwaukee-based illustrator Dwellephant. Via bblinks.

xx-comics Political Comics. "Gianluca Costantini is a videoplay's generation son. He grows up eating comics and images." One-of-a-kind.

xx-comics Duke Univesity Libraries' exhibit Early Comic Strips 1898-1916. Beautifully annotated and curated. George Herriman's Krazy Kat is represented as are The Kin-der-Kids.

xx-comics Tangentially related to the link below. "Within the atom is the promise of a new age in which we will have complete control over our environment. With new structural materials from which spotless, airy buildings will be spun." The 1957 Atomic Revolution Comic Book.

xx-comics The Big Picture Film. Read. Look. But by all means, watch the video. Via Bearskinrug.

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Walt Kelly and Pogo, all the book covers and news of a comprehensive Fantagraphics volume.

xx-comics 7 things you really don't need to take a photo of.

xx-comics A booklet explaining to students why they should buy a Mac, illustrated by none other than The Simpson's Matt Groening.

xx-comics A fantastic interview with Daniel Clowes in Ready Made about the origins of his career and his upcoming film, "Art School Confidential." Via Drawn.

xx-comics A 32-page scan of Outcault's Buster Brown comics from the early 1900s.

xx-comics A large collection of portraits of famous cartoonists. Always wondered what Tom Tomorrow looked like. Now we know. Via Transbuddha.

xx-comics A Cartoon I.Q. Test from The New Yorker.

xx-comics A graphic interpretation by Robert Crumb of a series of events which happened to author Philip K. Dick in March of 1974. "He spent the remaining years of his life trying to figure out what happened in those fateful months."

xx-comics A briefcase full of the one and only Glen Baxter. Via PCL.

xx-comics A brilliant little stop-action animated film from the USSR in 1928, The Adventures of the Little Chinese, directed by Maria Benderskaya. Thank to Andrew of gmt+9 (-15).

xx-comics A bunch of very nice gif animations, sent to us by Massimo Nota in Rome.

xx-comics A BusinessWeek narrated slideshow of a tour to Lucasville on The Presidio in SF. Via Unbeige.

xx-comics A clip of the Amiga-based Disney Animation Studio in action.

xx-comics A collection of somewhat more realistic cartoon characters.

xx-comics A collection of all ten lessons from Doug Savage's How To Be The Next Barry White.

xx-comics A Collection of Weak Humor and Cheap Visual Gagery by Kevin Cornell. 100 Bearskinrug One-Offs. Via Z.

xx-comics A dark animated short by Paul Rayment, Piano.

xx-comics A dark comic book sensibility + flash + cinematic art direction + a really great story = The Killer, from Jacamon and Matz.

xx-comics A fantastic tribute to Al Eugster, an animator who began his career in silent cartoons and went on to work on such legendary projects as Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and all the rest. Via Drawn.

xx-comics A few snaps of the Rustboy Maquette.

xx-comics A Finnish collection of ribald Beetle Bailey comics, actually drawn by Mort Walker. NSFW, and totally unsettling. Thanks (?) Comics Curmudgeon.

xx-comics A four and a half minute compilation of every Ray Harryhausen animated creature, presented in chronological order.

xx-comics A guess on a phrase of the day: "Totally dismal and excellent." From a scan of "She's Goth to Have It" from the Betty & Veronica series.

xx-comics A guide to hidden Looney Tunes gags. Via Drawn.

xx-comics A History of Picture Stories : Over 350 pages of comics, or comics-related illustration, dating from 300 A.D. to 1929, Andy's Early Comics Archive.

xx-comics A holiday and a month late but too good to ignore. Michel Gagné's interstitials for Nick Halloween programming.

xx-comics A huge collection of unusual comic book covers. Make sure not to miss "Death Ship!!" and "Invasion of the Love Robots." Via Drawn.

xx-comics A nice collection of brilliant comic book cover art.

xx-comics A Norman McLaren film experiment (1955) in the use of intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery.

xx-comics A peek at some illustrations from Marvel's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz #1 out in December.

xx-comics A pretty exciting cup o' joe to start your week.

xx-comics A preview of Presidential Material, comic-book biographies of the candidates.

xx-comics A really interesting interview with cartoonist Peter Bagge ("Hate") that evolves into an even more interesting argument about the Beatles. At Two-Handed Man.

xx-comics A scan of The Madballs Handbook from 1986. Via Doobybrain.

xx-comics A short, illustrated history of jumpers from Pringle of Scotland.

xx-comics A stop motion short, A Short Love Story.

xx-comics A very entertaining collection of classic ads from comic books, assembled by online comic artist Steve Conley. And here's another gallery of comic ads. Ah, the memories. (Side note: I don't know if you can "Make Money Selling Grit" these days, but it's apparently still around.)

xx-comics A very in-depth look at Making of Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse comic strip. Via Drawn!

xx-comics About cartooning but applicable to any design project. "When a drawing isn't working it's always tempting to clean it up in an attempt to 'fix it' when, really, you know that the drawing is flawed and you should just start over." 7 Golden Camels' A Kick in the Head, Part Three.

xx-comics Achewood's Holiday Shopping Tips.

xx-comics Achewood's tribute/parody to Chris Ware. If you're not into Achewood, click "random comic" and start reading.

xx-comics Adding captions to old illustrations is surprisingly, more fun than a barrel of Monkey Fluids. In the spirit of Glen Baxter.

xx-comics Agence Eureka's scan of Parlons de Marine, a 1939 French comic style textbook on the sea and ships.

xx-comics Amazing collaborative animation from artists Blu and David Ellis, Combo. Via Change the Thought.

xx-comics Amid Amidi on The Appeal of Fifties Animation Design, it's "not that cartoons looked a particular way, but rather, that they didn't look a particular way."

xx-comics An animated homage to The Rocketeer.

xx-comics An appropriately silent movie about Collin Ord's forthcoming book on animated optical illusions. Via Cartoon Brew.

xx-comics An incredible collection of development and production art from an incredible film: The Art of Up.

xx-comics An online comic book is telling the story of New Orleans After the Deluge. Via Influx Insights.

xx-comics And speaking of yetis, Bigfoot, of Graham Roumieu's In Me Own Words , etc., is now on Twitter for your occasional dose of crude protohuman humor.

xx-comics Andrew Hickinbottom's illustration and 3D modeling gallery.

xx-comics Animated Homage by Jacques Khouri.

xx-comics Animator Gary Leib's history of Manhattan's Meatpacking District.

xx-comics Animator Gene Deitch is best known for his work at UPA in the fifties and as the creator of Tom Terrific. What is less well known (well, it was to me) is that he has been happily working out of Prague since 1959. His book, How To Succeed In Animation, published online, chronicles his entire career and is a great read.

xx-comics Anime run amuck in Sugimoto Kousuke and Manabe Takayuki's The TV Show. Need to watch it about 10 times to make sure you've caught everything.

xx-comics AnimWatch has a quick preview of the upcoming "Jo Jo in the Stars" from Studio AKA, makers of CP fave, Picas.

xx-comics Anyone who has never heard of Chicago artist Chris Ware -- or anyone who has heard of him and doubts he is a genius -- needs to check out "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth." Not only is it one of the great graphic novels of all time, but it was also one of the most beautiful books published last year.

xx-comics Art of the Title interviews Jim Capobianco and Alex Woo about the end credits of Wall-E. Via Michael Tsai.

xx-comics Artist Andy Helm's Dude-A-Day. Via P&P.

xx-comics As a former production designer and color scripter for Pixar, Lou Romano visited the tepuis of Venezuela and animated this lighting and color reel to define the mood of the movie Up.

xx-comics As one of the most avant garde and high brow comic strips of our day, sometimes you need a little help deciphering just what exactly is going on. Luckily, Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke.

xx-comics ASIFA on Karl Hubenthal Master Sports Cartoonist. Not sure anyone will ever be called that again. More here.

xx-comics At last, the picture of everything. Via the Icelandic National Team.

xx-comics Awesome: A 60-year old mystery about a father's strange doodle is finally solved thanks to the magic of the internet. Via Drawn!

xx-comics Back to shop class. Cartoon Brew on The ABCs of Handtools.

xx-comics Bang-yao Liu's senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Post-it note stop motion. Deadline.

xx-comics Beautiful 3D typography, in black and white, for IDN Magazine, created by Nylon. Via Stash.

xx-comics Being an American living in Canada, and missing the July 4th fireworks, Sean Ohlenkamp decided to make his own with some stop motion pinhole animation. Via Peachfuzz.

xx-comics Belgium's loss is your gain! Make your own "Mr. Walters" paper model.

xx-comics Bibi has posted a big list of shorts from graduate animation classes at the Gobelins in Paris. Digging Gnap Gnap especially.

xx-comics Big, gorgeous scans of a series of pages from Fred Ludekens' Famous Artists Course. Found at Temple of the Seven Golden Camels.

xx-comics Bob Richards collects Animation Backgrounds. A fun browse, check these from Tarzan, Fantasia 2000 and Atlantis.

xx-comics Boy Scout with Strange Dreams - Tintin et Moi. Regarding Danish director Anders Ostergaard's documentary on Tintin creator Herge. Via NSoP.

xx-comics Brian Taylor of Rustboy writes, "The first thing I thought of when I saw your link to The Codex Seraphiniaus was Glen Baxter. The man's a genius." Takes one to know one.

xx-comics Brilliant, from storyboard to the final film, The Moment. Via Fubiz.

xx-comics Brilliant. Sony Bravia showers us with bunnies.

xx-comics California tumbles into the sea and one community decides to defend their homes, the 30 brave people of sub:division. Plus make your own comic like the one to the left. All of it only great, from angry monkey.

xx-comics Captain Marvel works his way up the food chain. Via SoldierAnt.

xx-comics Cartoon Brew has collected ten spectacular, highly graphic, animated spots from France in the 50's. Awesome. Via Green Cine Daily.

xx-comics Cartoon Brew links up a number of tributes to maestro Joseph Barbera, who died yesterday.

xx-comics Cartoon Modern has posted a series of recently discovered photos from a 1955 MoMA exhibition called "UPA: Form in the Animated Cartoon."

xx-comics Charles and Ray Eames' 1957 cartoon, The Information Machine.

xx-comics Charles Schulz's Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters' expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all.

xx-comics Check out the updated Studio AKA shockwave site to see some of the best animation going on in the UK. Be sure to look at the 'who we are' section and my favourite campaigns for Orange and NatWest in 'recent work'

xx-comics Check these Italian sci-fi photo comics. [ translate] Download Controllo Computer for a real treat. Via The Cartoonist.

xx-comics Checking in on an old oxidized friend, Rustboy, we followed a link and found that there is a ton of terrific new stuff up at Brian Taylor's Candykiller site.

xx-comics Chris Harding's Make Mine Shoebox which, among other things, defines the creativite process by using the "intake/outcrap" model.

xx-comics Chris Ware, behind-the-scenes, on the French channel "Arte TV." A large file, but well worth it. Via Waxy.

xx-comics Chris Ware's rejected Fortune cover.

xx-comics Classic comic book ads, don't miss the children on steroids and the 2 socko specials.

xx-comics Click Things I Have Worried About. Thanks Coop.

xx-comics Cliff Chiang's 12 Inch Remix, putting comic book characters into LP covers.

xx-comics Colorful, fun burst of motion graphics in Encyclopedia Pictura's The Internet.

xx-comics Comic book fans, find out where your favorite ranks on Wizard's list of the 200 greatest comics.

xx-comics Comics of varying degrees of style and mirth, courtesy of Flak.

xx-comics Cool ninja plush at Ninja Town. Limited edition of 25 for each style.

xx-comics Craig Thompson's graphic novel Blankets sure looks swell. I just hit the ol' add-to-cart button. Via DDC.

xx-comics Craig Yoe's Modern Arf, The Unholy Alliance of Art and Comics. Via Speak Up.

xx-comics Crass, absurd, and hurtful. In short: fantastic. Pete Johnson's comics.

xx-comics Create your own Mangatar with Face Your Manga. Via Pop Wuping.

xx-comics Creepy live-action Simpsons on Spanish TV.

xx-comics Damn, didn't notice at the time but The Superest is done. We'll, always have the archives. Thanks Marsh.

xx-comics Dan Goodsell on The New Bazooka Joe. Via Drawn!

xx-comics Dan Meth's forgotten 80's Nintendo games.

xx-comics Dan Shepelavy on the "Call me Ishmael" of comics, the first page of Watchmen, featuring two nice scans, the line art and an annotated color guide.

xx-comics Daniel's excellent New Yorker Cartoon Anti-Caption Contest. Somebody once said that you can tell where a cartoon is from by changing the caption to say simply f*** you. If it still works, it's from the N'Yorker. Via TMN.

xx-comics Dave Bossert gets ten questions from DVD File. Bossert headed the release of Disney's Wartime Propaganda films as a DVD called On the Front Lines. This link was swiped from Matt at Scrubbles who said about a piece from the collection, "Disney's flair for memorable visuals is put to even better use in educational shorts like 'The Grain that Built a Hemisphere' - a history of corn told with gorgeous streamline moderne imagery lifted straight off a WPA mural." That's good enough for me. Going to purchase right now.

xx-comics David Cairns on Richard Williams' forgotten ambitious animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler. Here's the opening sequence and titles.

xx-comics David Foster Wallace's Up, Simba! made into a comic. Via Screenhead.

xx-comics David O'Reilly's iPhone animation uses the iPhone's gyroscope to create the illusion of 3-D.

xx-comics Dazzling animation, awesome depth-of-field and camera effects and a sparkling world inhabited by Lots of Robots. Via our squeaky pal, Rustboy.jc-06.10.02

Design, illustration and animation by Arthur Jones. Plus, make him look funny. Via The DDC.

xx-comics Dez Skinn on the early days of British fanzines, love the "Space 1999" illo. Via Mefi.

xx-comics Did you know that Daniel Clowes started out at Cracked Magazine?

xx-comics Discussions regarding the existence of trans-dimensional portals, parallel worlds, and pies...

xx-comics Dive right into the deep end of a swimming pool of pixels by Ubik. Via Good.

xx-comics Do you know your monsters?

xx-comics Dr. Seuss does Star Wars.

xx-comics Dreamworks storyboard artist and character designer Ben Balistreri draws his 30 favorite Star Wars characters.

xx-comics Eboy's Einstein in the Swiss Patent Office. Found among a celebration of pixel art at Smashing Mag.

xx-comics Ed Roth or Don Monteverde? The controversy over who really created Rat Fink, the iconic hot-rod character.

xx-comics Eleanor Davis' comics and illustrations, Doing Fine. Via Drawn.

xx-comics EMF writes, "I was trying to learn something about some of my father's favorite cartoons and I found this."  Pogo Covers. My father's too.

xx-comics Ethan Persoff hosts Trapped!. "This is Bill Jones, a high-school student... he thought he knew all the answers..."

xx-comics Fab artist Ragnar (you'll know his work when you see it) has a weblog for tests and sketches and whatnot, it's called Symptomatica.

xx-comics Fabulous student graduation project, Al Dente.

xx-comics Famous Artists Course #24, 1960, Chad Grothkopf's "Design For Television." Great scans, smartly annotated at ASIFA. Of particular note: The abstract commercial and the drawing board.

xx-comics Fantastic animation for the French band Sna-Fu, might want to turn your sound down a bit.

xx-comics Farley Katz of The New Yorker challenges Randall Munroe of XKCD to a "cartoon-off."

xx-comics Feels like it's related to the last somehow: One Million Giraffes, chronicling the quest to collect a huge quantity of giraffe drawings in just one year.

xx-comics Finalists for The Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest. Via One Good Move.

xx-comics First they made excellent videos for Blur, The Rapture, and QOTSA. Now Shynola are working on the film adaptation of The Hitchiker's Guide!

xx-comics Fletcher Hanks, the Ed Wood of Comics. Via 1+1=3.

xx-comics Flip between various methods for Depixelizing Pixel Art by Johannes Kopf and Dani Lischinski. Yoshi! Here's some background on the project. Via Michael Lebowitz.

xx-comics Follow the presidential race with illustrator Steven Brodner's sketch videos in The Naked Campaign.

xx-comics Following jc's post about the New Yorker cartoon caption contests, here's an old favorite from McSweeney's. Stupid and crass, certainly, but still gets a good, genuine couple of laughs.

xx-comics For a few months now I've been checking out Matthew Woodson's illustration portfolio and how he documents the process on his blog -- and I'm always impressed.

xx-comics For all the cat owners in the studio, which just about everyone sans moi, Simon's cat investigates a box.

xx-comics For KG, the Simpsons get the stamp of approval.

xx-comics For KG: who voiced which characters on The Simpsons.

xx-comics For your reference, 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists.

xx-comics FotA and Field-Tested Books contributor David Rees asks that we all boycott Jamba Juice for blatantly ripping off his beloved Get Your War On comic.

xx-comics Frank Stockton's "Hamburgers for One." Very cinematic, beautifully drawn and written. Via Waxy.

xx-comics From The Atlantic, A Decade in Cartoons.

xx-comics Full screen, volume up. "Flux" a short animation inspired by the works of sculptor Ilhan Koman. Video and sound design by Candas Sisman. Sometimes I just say "mandatory viewing" and sometimes I really mean it. Like now.

xx-comics Get your recipes in an artful form over at They Draw and Cook.

xx-comics Graphic designers in love.

xx-comics Great post by Matt at 37s on classic cut paper animation and how restraint can be liberating.

xx-comics Great, copiously illustrated ASIFA post, Writing Cartoons Part Four, The Rough Board.

xx-comics Greg Storey of Airbag writes, "Archeology, exploration, history, mythology, Edgar Allen Poe, World War II, B-Movie style monsters, demons and Nazis all make for one thing: Hellboy. one of the best fictional characters you'll love to read about. Created, drawn, and written by Mike Mignola, Hellboy is a paranormal investigator who goes after some pretty wicked beings that have either been summoned by old Nazis, still clinching to the dream of the Third Reich, or demon spirits that have tortured small eastern European villages for centuries. Mignola delivers grand settings, smart dialogue, and fantastic artwork to deliver excellent story telling that is worth every dollar and worth every minute you spend on Hellboy.

xx-comics Groovy, trippy, watercolor-y vid for Breakbot's Baby I'm Yours. Via Creative Review.

xx-comics Guess the cartoon character based on the silhouette. Answers can be found in the comments here. Via Grow a Brain

xx-comics Hard to resist a post entitled Merging a trippy SpongeBob Squarepants with data visualization.

xx-comics Have an IM chat with Rustboy and you're sure to get some serious linkage. Nocturna. Click "view teaser" then try to ignore the terrible voiceover and concentrate on the the animation. Splendid.

xx-comics History fans, comic fans, and Canadians rejoice! Kate Beaton finally has a handsome and permanent web address.

xx-comics How low can the new iMac go? Find out at the iBeach, by Tan Jin Ho, featured at the CG Channel.

xx-comics I dunno if this guy really is Disney's #1 Fan but he's certainly their most tattooed fan.

xx-comics I have no idea what's going on here, but it's worth a gape. Heiwa Alpha.

xx-comics I have the feeling that I'm the last guy on the planet to find this site, but anyway, send Sam a title and he'll draw it in his own engaging way at exploding dog. I'm sending, "I didn't mean to burn down the garage."

xx-comics I know what you're thinking. You're thinking "What would that great Kurt Russell flick Big Trouble in Little China look like if it were a South Park episode?" Wonder no more.

xx-comics I saw this on a tv across a room a few weeks ago and have been looking for it ever since. Studio Smack's Kapitaal, a brilliant vision of the world stripped bare of everything except corporate identities and signage. Produced for Museum de Beyerd Breda.

xx-comics I thought I'd start off my guest editing with one of my favorite illustrators, Jon Klassen. That's just the tip of the iceberg. I know I'll have a lot more artists/animators throughout the month.

xx-comics I'm a big fan of Robert Crumb. The last time I really saw him was in Terry Zwigoff's documentary picture, so I was a bit surprised at how old he is looking these days. I guess time does that to a fella.

xx-comics If you are a serial enterer of the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, FotA Daniel has posted five previous contest cartoons with the winning captions, as well as, for the first time, the original captions penned by the cartoonists. Of course he's included the winning entries from his weekly (and much more fun), parallel "anti-caption" contest as well.

xx-comics If you do this in an email, I hate you.

xx-comics If you like cavemen and robots, you'll love Caveman Robot. Check out CR's new Music Video.

xx-comics Imaginary Force's opening credit sequence for The Pink Panther 2, which is about as much of this movie as I will ever see.

xx-comics In almost complete opposition to the vermeer link below, check the incredible illustrative powers of the mighty Potentate, The Reverend David "Cornelius" Johnson at Studio Devil Pig. Via K10k.

xx-comics In an apparent effort to make stop motion animation even more maddeningly difficult, this promo for MTV Brazil uses illustrations drawn on balloons. "10 balloons had to be popped per second, or 600 balloons per minute. It took nearly 24 straight hours to shoot the multiple takes needed." Via Creativity.

xx-comics In case you missed it on our Jewelboxing weblog yesterday, check this snippet of animation from Santamaria in Hamburg. Beware, the tune is likely to get stuck in your head.

xx-comics In case you missed it, Animation Backgrounds.

xx-comics In honor of KG's visit to the studio today, the Simpsons guest star quiz.

xx-comics In other Mr. Walters-related news, don't miss Caveman Robot, the Musical this week at the Brick in NYC.

xx-comics In the spirit of American retail, I won't wait until after Thanksgiving to post this link: Way more than everything you wanted to know about the Rankin Bass classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Thanks to the Republic of Heaneyland.

xx-comics In this high-concept simulation, you get to set up some variables and push someone down the stairs.

xx-comics Info on Craig Yoe's book Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator, Joe Shuster. Via Peachfuzz.

xx-comics Interesting "Fresh Air" interview with comic book artist and writer Frank Miller, creator of Batman: The Dark Knight.

xx-comics Interview with Brian Taylor at Animwatch about the soon to be published Rustboy book.

xx-comics It would be funny if it wasn't true.

xx-comics It's hard to believe that something could be more wonderful than How to Make Garfield Funny, but Garfield Minus Garfield has done just that.

xx-comics It's okay (probably preferable) to mute this music video, but the animation is too good to miss. Via CHF.

xx-comics Ivan Brunetti's Doodle-a-Day.

xx-comics I've always had a love/hate thing with editorial cartoons, and while the Bad Cartoonist seems pretty hateful, he clearly has a love for the format. Nothing about my hometown hero Jim Borgman yet, but it's surely just a matter of time.

xx-comics James Hutchison, of timehead, who is currently working with cp on a hush-hush client project, has debuted the pilot of his animated series Preschool Protocops at Eyepoxy. Amazing and hilarious.

xx-comics Jillian Tamaki's SuperMutant Magic Academy: Critique. Amen.

xx-comics Jimmy Maidens lives in Boring, Maryland, but his daily archive of bright, surprising 3D images is anything but. Plus, lots of other stuff at Boring 3D.

xx-comics John Kricfalusi answers his own question 'Why do drawings from classic cartoons look so much better than all other cartoon drawings?" by annotating "the greatest thing ever," The Preston Blair Book.

xx-comics John Kricfalusi's tribute to Ed Benedict, the legendary animator who just recently passed away.

xx-comics John Updike reviews a melancholy biography about much-loved Charles Schulz and his autobiographical Peanuts gang.

xx-comics Josh Nimoy's big illustrated post on custom software and interfaces for Tron Legacy. As Michelle Higa at Motionographer says, "Bonus nerd points for hacker sequence verisimilitude."

xx-comics Julien Tromeur's ".blue." Via Drawn.

xx-comics Just in case you didn't know, Hark! A Vagrant is awesome. Katie is the Lynda Barry of obcscure history references.

xx-comics Just in time for his live Layer Tennis match against Davin Risk tomorrow, Brian Taylor has updated his main site, Candykiller. Flip through the gallery for deliciousness.

xx-comics Kate Beaton's really at the top of her game today.

xx-comics Katie Shelly, Picture Cook. Via Drawn.

xx-comics Kazu Kibuishi takes you through a detailed step-by-step on the creation of one of his Copper comics. It's really thorough and clear, with photos for every frame of the way. "In fact, each time I sit down to work on a comic, especially Copper, I feel like I have to teach myself to draw all over again." Via Drawn.

xx-comics Kevin Melrose's 50 best comic book covers of 2010. Love this Spidey moment.

xx-comics Korean students rewrite Kate Beaton comics.

xx-comics Kreepsville presents Cereal Killers, a "coffin table book." Via Khoi.

xx-comics Kyle T. Webster's The Daily Figure takes on Star Wars. Via Drawn.

xx-comics Laurenn McCubbin's Harvest Gypsy at Artbomb. A fine journey in panels. "There's a truck same as Big Wayne had. There's a big old Chevy, just like Ronnie's. I haven't gotten very far if they beat me here." Via Blurbism.

xx-comics Leif Peng on Cartoonists vs. illustrators and ads for correspondence schools that can make you an artist "even if you can't draw a straight line."

xx-comics Leif Peng's Today's Inspiration "A place for those with an interest in illustration from the 40's and 50's to share their knowledge..." Via Drawn.

xx-comics Leigh Walton invited a bunch of people to fill up his Tintin Sketchbook. I. II. III. Via Drawn.

xx-comics Lev Yilmaz draws and narrates funny and smart Tales of Mere Exisitence, like this one titled Hierarchy and a bunch of others. Terrific.

xx-comics Like comics? Then you will love Cover Browser. Over 450,000 covers of comics, book and more.

xx-comics Lilli Carré's Raising Chicago, an illustrated account of the rising of Chicago's street level in the 1850s.

xx-comics Limit: one per household. Oh, that that lucky household were mine...

xx-comics Link of the week. It's a big download and shows bigger talent. Joost Korngold's Archetype at Renascent is nothing short of amazing. Track by diagram-of-suburban-chaos.

xx-comics Literal New Yorker captions, The Monkeys You Ordered.

xx-comics Little clip from Pixar's next fim, Wall-E. Could he be any cuter? Via AICN.

xx-comics Looking at the written content of most spam, with subject lines like "The Mighty Cucumber Lives," it would be easy to conclude that they are being composed by French Surrealists. Finally, they have a visual outlet, in Spamusement: "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines." Via Drawn.

xx-comics Lots of new stuff at Brian Taylor's Candykiller including a new book. Details and more at the weblog.

xx-comics Lovely animated title sequence for Ça Se Soigne? by Deubal. Via Cartoon Brew.

xx-comics Lovely animated music video, JCB. Via Drawn.

xx-comics Lovely animated video for Fixkes Lievelingsdier.

xx-comics Lovely animation for Estoria do Gato e da Lua .

xx-comics Lovely, Piece of Cake.

xx-comics Lovely, Sky High.

xx-comics Lovely, The Lighthouse Keeper.

xx-comics Lovely, Le Ballon. Via DRB.

xx-comics Loving the cartoons of Mr. Fish at Harpers.

xx-comics Loving Tom Gauld's daily cartoons. Especially today's, Evolution of the Chess Computer. Via Peter Nidzgorski.

xx-comics Lunchbreath visits the Chicago Auto Show.

xx-comics Lunchbreath's Design Fantasy Camp.

xx-comics Many from the office made it out to the Dave Eggers reading at the Harold Washington Library Monday night. A special treat was a rare appearance by brilliant Chicago cartoonist and illustrator Chris Ware.

xx-comics Mark writes, "In case you hadn't already seen it, a somewhat interactive map of Springfield."

xx-comics Markus Hofko's Cartoon Particles, Disney characters deconstructed in 3D. Fab.

xx-comics Markus Hofko's Cartoon Particles, Disney characters deconstructed in 3D. Fab.

xx-comics Meet the Creative Department Douchebag.

xx-comics Meet the Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascots, Miga, Quatchi, and Sumi.

xx-comics Michael Gagne's Prelude to Eden, a spectacular animated look at an alternate explanation for the origin of the universe. Via Newstoday.

xx-comics Michele D'Auria's animated film for Honda. A bit much on the v/o but beautifully drawn.

xx-comics Milt Gross's Cartoon Tour of New York was published as a program guide for tourists visiting the 1939 World's Fair.

xx-comics MK12 presents Follow the Sun! Think of it as The Shining of animated drive-in movie refreshment promotions. The "Making Of" is great too. Via Waxy.

xx-comics Mo graf pros, take the 2009 Motion Graphic Design Census and be counted.

xx-comics More from Up: the Color Script. Gorgeous, and completely full of spoilers. Via Wil Shipley.

xx-comics Motionographer asks, "Where do your initial ideas come from for a film?" Jeff Scher replies, "From looking at everyday things with a sense of mischief and awe." His animated life, an interview and video montage.

xx-comics MTV Brazil interstitial, Happiness Sadness.

xx-comics MTV Switzerland's Sex is no Accident ads.

xx-comics Multimedia ingenuity at irritablecolon (too bad about the name). Art, music, writing, and most especially, short films.

xx-comics Music by Andrew Bird, here is Chris Ware's Quimby the Mouse.

xx-comics Netdiver debuts a new section, Reel Shorts, including Mathieu Badimon's sweet Play Lab and a great set of idents for S4/C by Universal Everything.

xx-comics New to iPhone apps, the lovely Shadows Never Sleep.

xx-comics New trailer for the lovely animated film The Illusionist.

xx-comics Nice Raster 7.0 interview with Shynola design studio. "We had no plan in the beginning. We just wanted to make work that we thought was cool, get paid for it and not do a 9-5 job. It just happened that the best fit for us was making music videos."

xx-comics Nick Campbell on The Third & The Seventh, an amazing photorealistic 3D rendered film by Alex Roman. Includes a "making of" and a compositing breakdown. Yowza.

xx-comics Nick Uff's deliciously lo-fi animated videos for Portishead's The Rip and We Carry On.

xx-comics Nick's creamyorange is up and full of pixel on screen mograf action. He's also featured in the Jewelboxing blog currently.

xx-comics Not really related to the last, except for the final few seconds which are Scanimate-ish.

xx-comics Now online, the fab Oscar nominated-animated short, Logorama. Via Slashfilm.

xx-comics NYC VFX and Animation studio, 1st Ave Machine "blur the line between what we perceive as real and impossible." Yes, they do.

xx-comics Oddly hypnotic, animation set to a tune by The Real Tuesday Weld,