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Partisan Memorials in former Yugoslavia. Impressive modernist architecture.

An outside view of Brussels and its architecture: part one and part two.

Vegetal City, an exhibition by architect Luc Schuiten. (Brother of that other Schuiten)

The blinkenlights crew have setup a new project in Toronto: Stereoscope. Using the dual city hall buildings as displays. Even rickrolling got its spot.

The social function of NIMBYism.

The interface at Paris:Invisible City takes a bit of getting used to but it’s worth exploring.

Great interview with Burial who, incidentally, has made my top album of 2007.

Shrewd JG Ballard analysis of the Bilbao Guggenheim.

Faces in places.

Jan Gehl on how to build a place for people, not for cars.

Urban abandonments – deserted wonders of the modern world

Interesting-looking London-based exhibition concerning the modernist architectural heritage of the Eritrean capital, Asmara.

Watching a London tower block get dismantled from the bottom up.

Contradiction in terms: a sustainable solar-powered parking structure

The tunnel house.

Someone bring these guys to Brussels.

The Nakagin capsule tower in Tokyo is to be demolished. That’s a serious loss for architectural history.

A Belgian social housing block is being turned into lofts.

Over-design is creating public spaces that people don’t want to use

Not something you see every day: Custom Verner Panton S-Chairs in a church.

WWI plane on top of a New York building.

A new skyscraper to be built in Paris will have a windfarm at the top while a nightclub in Rotterdam will generate electricity from dancers’ movements.

Las Vegas, city of lights denial.

Say it with a building.

The crazy 35km cooled bicycle path in Qatar.

A film about the last days of the government’s utopian “administrative city” in Brussels will be showing soon at the Arenberg cinema.

Frederic Chaubin’s photographs of strange scifi-like architecture in the former Soviet Union.

The Pearlroth house of Westhampton Beach. Beautiful fifties architecture saved from demolition.

Detroitblog is a great companion to the classic fabulous ruins of Detroit site.