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Over-caffeinated, Under-employed, and Bored to Death

It all seems so simple in retrospect. I wanted a cup of coffee, I got a cup of coffee. But obtaining this particular cup would’ve been much more difficult five years ago – and nearly impossible ten years back. This wasn’t just any coffee (and cucumber sandwich [1]), this was a very specific coffee. Actually, […]

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I’m Not A House But I Play One On Television

[images via S.A.R.A.H.’s Twitpic] In an cross-disciplinary exploration of Architecture, television, journalism, and new media, S.A.R.A.H (Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat), the self-aware home of Sheriff Jack Carter in the SciFi television network series Eureka, was recently “twitterviewed” by NotCot. That’s right — the house was interviewed. Built from the remains of a bomb shelter and […]

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TV Series Fringe Displaces Daniel Libeskind

[screenshot of Fringe via fringepedia (already? really?)] Last night saw the official premiere of J.J. Abrams’ new series, Fringe (which was completely awesome by the way), but any architectural savvy television viewers who saw a “sneak peak” —authorized or otherwise—may have been surprised to see the work of a very familiar architect displaced from Toronto […]