Gizmodo on the design of the Skynet base in Terminator Salvation
I think the filmmakers missed a great opportunity to show what a machine city might look like. Purely functional, all tools taking commands wirelessly from other machines, not guardrails on dangerously high structures, etc.
On how the current Superman books team are working to create an identity for the fictitious city.
Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice
The Hall of Justice from Superfriends (and later in the comics) was based on Union Terminal in Cincinnati.
Final Crisis Annotations: Final Crisis #3
Ah ha! The building the Nazi character crashes through is a proposed World Trade Center replacement. Morrison’s DC Universe New York City is always filled with proposed but not built architecture like this.
FILE Magazine Project - San-Zhr Pod Village by Craig Ferguson
Wild sci-fi-looking abandoned village in Taiwan.
Mystery on Fifth Avenue - NYTimes.com
Architect designs a puzzle into a house for the owners to find later. Don’t miss the slideshow.
Buttonless elevators have their ups and downs
New elevators are designed to route people more efficiently, but are confusing because the buttons are in the lobby, not in the cars.
From castles to concrete barriers, threats have often changed architecture for the worse, only to disappear and leave ungainly buildings still standing.
Eight Rooms, Well, Nine, but That’s Their Secret
New York Times on people installing secret rooms in their homes.
A Porch and Flowering Meadow, 6 Floors Up - New York Times
Cool story about a green roof in New York City.
At the New JetBlue Terminal, Passengers May Pirouette to Gate 3
On how to design public spaces that don’t make people turn into confused sheep.
the cool hunter - VOLKSWAGEN’s NEW CAR EXPERIENCE
20-story vertical stacking of VWs. Wow.
Washington Post article about the rise of green roofs in DC, and how the new ballpark isn’t planning on having one.
How the Nationals’ stadium could end up being a beauty or a beast, depending on how much the team decides to skimp on the details.
Rendering of the Nationals’ stadium (man, what a clumsy name! Who else can’t wait until it has a corporate sponsor?).