Art3d Store One of the cheapest ways of upgrading your kitchen is employing a vinyl farmhouse backsplash. Self-adhesive tiles come in many different d ...
There are few occasions when you feel like packing your bags and taking the next flight to a destination as soon as you see the image of an amazing ge ...
Amazing Here?s a fun thing for architecture and design nerds: somewhere on the internet, someone is sharing super mesmerizing GIFs of traditiona ...
France is a country that is renowned for many things ranging from its glittering world of fashion to its glittering capital. Then there is the idyllic ...
[Image: From The Hunt For Red October, via Quora]. There?s a throwaway line in The Hunt For Red October where a submarine navigator jokes, ?Give me a ...
I?m finally back from several weeks of travel and wanted to post some recent news I was particularly thrilled about: my book, A Burglar?s Guide to th ...
[Images: Via Wired UK]. Sites of urban infrastructure and other industrial facilities integral to municipal management, from fire stations to fuel dep ...
[Image: An airplane hangar in Utah, via the U.S. Library of Congress]. Another book I read while jet-lagged in London last week was David Gissen and ...
[Image: The London ?time ball? at Greenwich, courtesy Royal Museums Greenwich]. Thanks to the effects of jet lag getting worse as I get older, I was ...
[Images: Via Peter Moore?s piece on ?dueling weathermen? over at Nautilus]. As mentioned in the previous post, I recently had the pleasure of reading ...
[Image: ?St. Mark\'s Place, with campanile, Venice, Italy,? via the Library of Congress]. Following a number of recent events for A Burglar?s Guide to ...
[Image: Undersea augmented reality headgear; courtesy of the As you can see in the embedded video, above, Matsuda?s film is a POV exploration of info ...
[Image: From L.A. Recalculated by Smout Allen and BLDGBLOG]. London-based architects Smout Allen and I have a project in the new issue of MAS Context, ...
[Image: Close-up of the 2010 State Geologic Map of California]. An interesting story published last month in the L.A. Times explored the so-called ?sw ...
[Image: The former Polish National Alliance Building, now Studio Gang; via Studio Gang]. Just a quick reminder that, if you?re in Chicago this Friday, ...
[Image: From United States of America, Plaintiff v. State of California,? December 15, 2014]. This is old, old, old news, widely covered elsewhere at ...
[Image: An otherwise unrelated photo of a ?Scout? UAV, via Wikipedia]. [Don?t forget to update your bookmarks to bldgblog.com]. There?s an interesting ...
[Image: Drone footage of a Cornwall garden sinkhole, via the BBC]. [Don?t forget to update your bookmarks to bldgblog.com]. One of the peculiar pleasu ...
[Image: Flying with the LAPD; photo by BLDGBLOG]. Just a quick heads up about three more Burglar?s Guide-related events coming up this month: Monday, ...
The west coast leg of the book tour for Burglar?s Guide ?locates the spot where architecture and crime intersect. It?s the dark side of urbanist Jane ...
[Image: From Financial Growth by Heidi Hinder; photo by Jonathan Rowley]. I somewhat randomly found myself reading back through the irregularly update ...
[Image: Robert Moses, via Wikipedia]. I?ve been meaning to post about this since I first heard about it: a competition to design a game based on Rober ...
[Image: Inside Tadao Ando?s studio in Osaka; photo by Kaita Takemura, via designboom]. Somewhere, despite the weather here, it?s spring. If you?re lik ...
At long last, after more than three years of research and travel, A Burglar?s Guide as one of their ?picked up a copy, and I would love to discuss the ...
[Image: Flying with the LAPD Air Support Division; Instagram by BLDGBLOG]. Over the past three years, I?ve gone on multiple flights with the LAPD Air ...
For the past several years, I?ve been writing a book about the relationship between burglary and architecture. Burglary, as it happens, requires archi ...
[Image: Russian troops in Grozny, February 2000; image courtesy of AP]. ?U.S. land forces will eventually find themselves locked in fights within huge ...
[Image: From "Grid Corrections" by Gerco de Ruijter, courtesy of the Ulrich Museum of Art]. De Ruijter is already widely known for his work documentin ...
[Image: From "Cropped" by Gerco de Ruijter; view larger]. The "Grid Corrections" of Gerco de Ruijter, as seen in the previous post, reminded me of de ...
[Image: Yodaville, via Google Maps]. All the Google Maps sleuthing of the Los Angeles "ghost streets" post reminded me of stumbling on a place called ...
[Image: The old submarine listening station, Isle of Lewis, via the BBC]. This is the most awesomely surreal architectural proposal of 2015: an extrem ...
[Images: From The Elephants & Bees Project "Beehive Fence Construction Manual" (PDF)]. Designing for humans, insects, and elephants at the same time, ...
[Image: Isochronic map of travel distances from London, from An Atlas of Economic Geography (1914) by John G. Bartholomew (via)]. "This is an isochron ...
[Image: Via Google Maps]. In a short story called " ...
[Image: Unrelated image of incredible floral shapes 3D-printed by Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg (via)]. A story published earlier this ...
[Image: Via Curbed LA]. Citing a new report in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Curbed LA points out that "parking infrastructure tak ...
[Image: Photo by Kai Caemmerer]. I\'ve got a new article up over at New Scientist looking at the so-called "ghost cities" of China, and where exactly ...
[Image: One of Google\' Loon balloons; screen grab from ...
[Image: Courtesy Criola]. "Afro-Brazilian civil rights group Criola is taking racist comments posted on Twitter or Facebook, identifying the location ...
