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February 3, 2010 – 11:45 pm

readings: the digital city

1. Keiichi Matsuda’s “Domestic Robocop” offers a glimpse of an augmented future which is part bliss and part nightmare:

Matsuda’s video is via BLDGBLOG, Serial Consign, @doingitwrong, and more or less everyone else.
2. In BLDGBLOG’s brief entry on Matsuda’s video, he suggests that “augmented-reality drop-down menus are the Gothic ornamentation of tomorrow”; if that suggestion intrigues [...]

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January 25, 2010 – 1:06 pm

the best architecture of the decade

[The Large Hadron Collider]
The end of a decade inspires a lot of list compiling; in that spirit, mammoth offers an alternative list of the best architecture of the decade, concocted without any claim to authority and surely missing some fascinating architecture.   But we hope that at least it’s not boring, as this was an exciting [...]

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