eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 VMODERN Furniture Design Competition. The award recognizes innovative design and creates ...
The beautiful little village of Ayerbe, nestled in the Spanish Pyrenees, offers the perfect backdrop for this gorgeous and unique modern rammed earth ...
Love the price and functionality of Ikea kitchen components but not the cabinet front choices" An array of new companies is offering custom cabinet ...
Minimal interior design is the name of the game with the Berlin based Loft Kolasi?ski. These interiors are so minimal and exact I almost thought they ...
[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: From United States of America, Plaintiff v. State of California,? December 15, 2014]. This is old, old, old news, widely covered elsewhere at ...
[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: 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 ...