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They can’t seriously be closing Vancouver’s geodesic dome

LB — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:58:02 +0000

City of Vancouver, why not just demolish the Planetarium, too, and all our other iconic, distinctive buildings while you’re at it? Do we even deserve architecture in this town?

Rio Vista, California, sans rio or vista

LB — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:51:06 +0000

Rio Vista housing development, California. From blog.zeit.de.

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Archeotecture

LB — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:36:06 +0000

You could almost call these buildings archeotecture, or perhaps archeolitecture, because though all three were built recently, they look and feel profoundly archeological. All of them have the mute, mysterious quality of monumental ancient ruins and they produce – for me, anyway – that weird, quiet, prickling-the-back-of-the-neck sensation you sometimes get when viewing something impossibly old.

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Canadian Coconut chair, the election, and Margaret Atwood

LB — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:43:00 +0000

“Electoral reform.” That’s our comment on yesterday’s Canadian federal election. On this dark day in Canadian politics, when a majority of Canadians couldn’t put a stop to the tyranny of a minority, here’s a nice photo of a famous piece of Canadian design.