The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the shortlist for the Stirling Prize in architecture. Every year the Institute nominates outstanding new buildings and awards the prize to the architects who built them.
This year’s nominees are:
America’s Cup Building, Valencia
Casa de Musica, Porto
Dresden Station Redevelopment, Dresden
Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar
The Savil Bulding, Windsor
Young…
Chantal took a vacation from NYC after PHTHRD, and even though we asked her to please, try and keep a low profile, here she is popping up on the grid doing god-knows-what more than 300 miles south of Nova Scotia in the middle of the ocean.
It looks like she’s far enough out to sea that Chantal won’t affect life…
It looks like Dow Jones will join MySpace as part of the News Corporation empire. Rupert Murdoch has won enough support from the Bancroft family to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Company for $5 billion. From the NY Times:
“Mr. Murdoch first made his offer to Dow Jones’s chief executive, Richard F. Zannino, over breakfast on March…
Ingmar Bergman died yesterday, Michelangelo Antonioni died yesterday. Theory goes there should be one more.
Article in the NY Times today on the 237 reasons human beings decide to get it on. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin asked nearly 2,000 people what makes them decide to have sex and heard everything from “to hurt an enemy” to “I was slumming” to “I wanted to get closer to God.”
Download the list of…
On July 24th in DUMBO 5 teams of photographers, stylists, makeup artists, and models converged on the water at Smack Mellon gallery to compete in the first ever Dewar’s Master-Disaster PHTHRD: Photography Duel. Under the watchful eye of host Richie Rich, VEER, and Surface Magazine, teams had 2 hours to create images for 3 briefs: Dialogue, Character, and Inspiration.
Across the wire from our friends at GNN today: Oxfam and the aid agency network NGO Co-ordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI) report that life in Iraq is far worse than it was before the US rolled through in 2003.
“According to the report, four million citizens (15%) regularly cannot afford to eat; 70% are without adequate water supplies (up from 50%…
Read: US offers $20 billion over the next 10 years in jets, missiles, and air defense systems to buy support from Gulf states for when the US makes its push into Iran or wherever else has the black gold.
“Iranian defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the United States was trying to ‘create a fake arms race in order to…
French painter Roman Opalka has been painting numbers in sequence for 40 years. His series, “Details,” started with the number 1 in 1965 and now approaches the infinite, which is to say it now approaches nothing, and is meaningless (via mocoloco).
Would Opalka disagree that his life’s work is meaningless? He set out to quantify the infinite, the very force which…
Monocle Magazine’s latest issue has an affair’s report called “Top 20 Liveable Cities.” Munich ranks #1, Oslo is in there somewhere, Tokyo, Madrid, an Australian city, some Italian cities etc. Not one of Monocle’s most liveable cities is in the Americas, Africa or Asia (apart from Tokyo). All of the top cities’ inhabitants are of predominantly Anglo-European descent (again excluding Tokyo).…
These Italian vending machines won’t feed you, but with typical Italian flair they will make sure you have the freshest pair of socks every day. (notcot) Nothing’s worse than having to do laundry because you run out of socks, not wanting to do laundry, and so reusing a dirty pair. Not even the Vending Machine Challenge was that bad.
This reminds us…
We’re perusing the flickr streams and finding some really great coverage of PHTHRD. This series is from longtime LVHRD member Graham Slick. Looking at his photos you’d think we sent people to the ER; honest it’s just camera tricks.
Watch this week's installment of the LVHRD VDO Series. This episode:LVHRD VDO: DNCHRD IV IS MAY 20th
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