Architecture matters:
Via geebirdandbamby:
Trailer for “Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs” (2010)
Adding the film to my must-see (eventually) list.
“It’s Just Different Here”: Austin’s once-forlorn South Congress neighborhood is flourishing again — with all of its quirks intact.
Nice urban-revival story by Joe Nick Patoski in National Trust for Historic Preservation’s July/August issue of @PreservationMag.
Photo credit: Matt Rainwaters
Kinda glad I saw this – @CocaCola #WorldCup packaging
Alex Bogusky stops to smell the flowers. →
Via unconsumption:
Bogusky, one of the best known advertising guys around, just announced he’s leaving the business. On what I take to be a related note (not that it’s positioned that way), he happens to have a short essay on his blog about the unbuyable pleasure of stopping to smell “my first flower.” It’s short and nicely done, and very much in the spirit of what I think is the broad idea of unconsumption.
Mindful awareness. ♥
![Architecture matters:
When asked by Vanity Fair to choose the five most important works of architecture created since 1980, 52 [unnamed] experts named 132 different structures.
To see the top 21 works, listed in order of popularity, view V.F.’…](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a74557e4b0b80ded0421f1/1437979195374-JOVTFT0OQOKXM9CTDM3A/image-asset.jpeg)
Architecture matters:
When asked by Vanity Fair to choose the five most important works of architecture created since 1980, 52 [unnamed] experts named 132 different structures.
To see the top 21 works, listed in order of popularity, view V.F.’s slideshow here.
Disclosure: As the long-reigning Foursquare ‘mayor’ of Houston’s Menil Park, I feel compelled to point out that the Renzo Piano-designed Menil Collection building (housing the museum) ranked at #2, behind Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Museum. ;-)
Menil Collection photo credit: Paul Hester
![Via thedailywhat:
Life-Altering Waffle Maker of the Day: It’s a Waffsicle maker. Nuff said.
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Via thedailywhat:
Life-Altering Waffle Maker of the Day: It’s a Waffsicle maker. Nuff said.