Here's a follow up on some topics I've already considered in this space, and where I'll be looking next.
The Royal Society of British Architects reports that a fifth of all architects are unemployed, about another fifth are underemployed, but when they find work, UK architects can expect a 7% salary increase.
The Twitter Revolution may be here after all: Yesterday's protests were organized almost entirely online and succeeded in rattling the authorities, despite government attempts to restrict Internet access--and a sandstorm.
Colm Tóibín hates writing. You know what? It shows.
I don't think this is a comprehensive list--there are no East Asian cities--but here are the ten oldest continually-inhabited cities in the world. Oldest city? Damascus.
The presentations from last month's 17th annual Congress for the New Urbanism aren't online yet, but there's a feature on an urban infill project in Denver's old Stapleton airport.
Tonight's viewing in Chicago: "flesheating bloodthirsty bunnies" in Andrea Eve and Mark Gavin's Vamphoppers, which will make its world premiere tonight at the Portage Theater as part of the Bang-a-Thon festival. Stick around for the Q&A session with the film's directors and a Britney Spears Toxic Karaoke competition.
On Monday I will be downtown to take a look at Ben van Berkel's pavilion for the Burnham Plan centennial. Alas, Zaha Hadid's pavilion, also located in Millennium Park, won't be completed until August 1. And, if I have enough time, I'll stand on the Sears Tower ledge and look 1,353 feet straight down.
This is sickening height in the picture above, and yoiu are right Twitter is everywhere.
Posted by: Antique cabinets | July 13, 2009 at 10:51 AM