Archiculture

source: Inhabitat

New York-based architects, Terreform, have proposed turning New York’s trash into various forms of art. Click here to see some of the proposed images.

via: Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)

I saw this for the first time on my way home yesterday on the L train. It blew my mind. Has this been out since last year on other trains? The MTA website says it was a piece from 2009. I now recognize the artist work from checking out her portfolio. The above image does not give the work justice due to the amount of detail and dynamic scenes in each of the little rooms, and the cutout technique. I may be mistaken but are the pieces in the trains prints or cutouts? Felt like it had shadow from the relief.

Bravo to the MTA for supporting artists and choosing quality visuals instead of more beer advertisements.

via: Friends of the Pleistocene

“A canyon, comparable in depth to the Grand Canyon, exists 100 miles off the coast New York City.”

The article goes on to discuss the potential for this canyon to cause massive tsunami’s to the New York area through underwater landslides and cutting off global internet connections of the seafloor cabling.

Thanks BLDGBLOG

source: Gothamist

No one informed me that there is a set of tennis courts in Grand Central Station.

When Grand Central Station was completed in 1913, an attic space above Vanderbilt Hall was left vacant.  It later became occupied by CBS in the 1930’s which eventually gave up the space due to rumbling trains.  Since then, the space has been converted to a pair of private tennis courts which can be used by the public for a fee of $170/hr.  The MTA has decided to regain control of the space (which is operated under Donald Trump) and use it as a rest area for train engineers.

via: national geographic

Cave of Crystals, Mexico

via: American Planning Association (APA)

Announced today in Tampa by Obama and Biden.

Thanks Travis

via: Unhappy Hipsters

Love this caption:

It became their routine. And so the evenings stretched out before him; still, gray and gravel-strewn.

source: Supersignage

I have always had a thing for old signage, especially for bowling alleys.  Check out this website that archives signage per state.