Archiculture

I should have asked for one of these for Christmas.

Bamboo Bike Studio is a sustainable endeavor that gives people the opportunity to custom build his or her own bike.  The cool part about the whole idea is that in one weekend you learn to design, build and maintain your own bamboo masterpiece.

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NYC tops the charts for both highest cost of living in the US and most populous US city. Not adding up? See the real numbers behind this chart topper.

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Thanks for the tip Yuliya.

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In the wake of the broken down Copenhagen climate talks, I am reminded of how utterly ignorant humans can be. Throwing sums of money around the globe from rich to poor will not stop this.

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via: Life at HOK

“There’s no way in God’s world you can get work in a hurry, on command. Nobody can get it! You’ve got to buy the field, cultivate it, plant your seed, tend it and then go out and pick it – all of which takes years.”

Formative words from the man who wrote a 23-page piece on how to create a recession-proof architectural office back in 1944.

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I thought architecture was on it’s deathbed but according to Gehry it is actually the field of Planning.

“I can’t just decide myself what’s being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. Look, I went to city planning school at Harvard and I discovered that you never got to change a f-cking thing or do anything. Urban planning is dead in the U.S.”

See the rest of the article and great response thread over on The Infrastructurist.