I am a huge fan of the landscape architecture here. What a fabulous location for a cabin.
via CONTEMPORIST
Stephen Graham, author of ”Cities Under Seige”, (currently sitting on my bookshelf) writes in The Guardian about the unprecedented mobilization of security forces for the London 2012 Olympics. Most incredible to me, “During the Games an aircraft carrier will dock on the Thames.” Also, the entire Olympic area will be surrounded by a massive, 5,000 volt fence.
“From 107 design ideas submitted from around the world, Urban Intervention: The Howard S. Wright Design Ideas Competition for Public Space has selected 3 finalists and 7 commendations. In the spirit of the 1962 World’s Fair, Seattle Center and AIA Seattle invited multidisciplinary design teams to compete in an international design ideas competition to re-envision a nine-acre site in the heart of Seattle Center and use it to explore innovation in public space in the coming century.”
via bustler
“The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist, has devised a new index which ranks the competitiveness of the most prominent cities across the globe using a number of economic, demographic and social variables. The 120 cities in the index are home to some 750m people and $20.2 trillion worth of GDP, 29% of the world’s total.”
via Archinect
The infographic is a dimensional comparison — if scaled for density instead, Manhattan wouldn’t be visible. From wikipedia: “[the] density [of a neutron star] is approximately equivalent to the mass of the entire human population compressed to the size of a sugar cube”
via m.ammoth.us
