Archive for October, 2008
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Life Without Buildings in the News
28 Oct 2008Posting to LWB has been infrequent of late because I’ve been preparing for a trip to the News. Orleans, York,…
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The Apocryphal Cartographies of Carroll and Borges
26 Oct 2008An excerpt from the astounding Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, by Lewis Carroll: “What a useful thing a pocket-map is!” I…
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Important Information From The Handbook For Playground Safety
23 Oct 2008[image via The Handbook for Playground Safety] Do not, we repeat, DO NOT do this. Thank god for childlike crash-test…
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A Shootout in the Guggenheim
21 Oct 2008The real star of the new Clive Owen / Naomi Watts movie The International? Architecture. That’s according to The Architects…
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Here’s what happens when you look for truth: Life Without Buildings Interviews Charlie Kaufman
13 Oct 2008[Philip Seymour Hoffman and Charlie Kaufman. Image courtesy Sony Pictures] Synecdoche, New York is a masterpiece of filmmaking. In his…
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Links Without Buildings – 10 October
10 Oct 2008[image via V&A] The origin of The War Room from Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. Great movie set? Or greatest movie set?…
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Eliasson’s Fog Engulfs Vienna Building
09 Oct 2008[image by Rupert Steiner, via anArchitecture] Olafur Eliasson’s Yellowfog debuts today in Vienna on the facade of its new home,…
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Life Without The New York Museum of Arts and Design
06 Oct 2008Life Without Buildings’ New York correspondent and Arts & Letters attaché Veronica Kavass stopped by the recently-renovated Museum of Arts…
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My Bloody Valentine – San Francisco CA, September 30th 2008
02 Oct 2008[MBV: If Diller Scofidio's Blur Building was made from sound and light] Tuesday Night, I was lucky enough to catch…