Yet Another Redesign

Life Without Buildings has seen more redesigns than actual posts lately, but there’s a good reason for this one! Well…as good a reason as any, I guess. I’ve recently upgraded both my hardware and software (I’m now using the excellent Flock as my default browser/blogging client, among other changes) and I felt it was [...]

Stepping into The Simpsons

The line between The Simpsons and reality continues to blur. First, Frank Gehry designs a concert hall-cum-prison in Springfield, and now Kwik-E-Marts have started to appear across the country. This weekend, my roommates and I (Simpsons fans all of us) took a trip down to Mountain View to check out one such erstwhile 7-11.A beautiful [...]

Pecha Kucha San Francisco

Come on by 330 Ritch St. this Wednesday.Seeya there!

Putting the Damn in DAM

In more Ohio news, this week saw the opening of the Akron Museum of Art expansion, designed by Vienna-based firm Coop Himmelb(l)au. (Where have those guys been, by the way?) The museum addition has opened to mixed reviews from both the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, with the most common criticism being directed [...]