My computer crashed, so it’s time for some links:
» First up is from Spiegel Online: 90 Years of Bauhaus. I usually don’t post links to slide shows, but this one is great.
» Next, 10 Modern Chairs that revolutionized sitting
» I can’t read any of this, but the designs are just incredible on this Russian site called Elff House
» Another slide show, but this one is also worth it, a new radical London bus design
» While we are in England, some beautiful nighttime photos of London from above
» To get around the skyscraper ban in Paris, architects have designed The Triangle, a 50-story pyramid that cast no shadows!
» An incredible building material, Light Transmitting Concrete
» A Cardboard Chair, winner of the Volvo For Life Design Award. Though, I don’t think setting a big red martini on it is such a good idea.
» Next, a cardboard house. . . the Universal World House.
» Instead of cardboard, how about caves, igloos or sewage pipes, the 10 Weirdest Hotels. I like the inside of a Yurt.
» An entire underground cave city in Turkey, Derinkuyu. The English translated text could have used a little editing by a native speaker.
» In Japan, the abandoned island city of Hashima
» Let’s take a quick look at the San Diego-Tijuana border
» Back in the U.S.A., some Strange and Unique Buildings. It’s nice they included the Air Force Academy Chapel, one of Colorado’s most important architectural achievements!
» Another strange building, this time from who-knows-where, from a site called Frinko
» This house design maybe the strangest of all. OK, maybe I was fooling around with that one.
» And lastly, from Life Magazine, an early Apollo spacesuit design. If you are old enough to remember the 1960s, you could get this suit for Major Matt Mason, G.I. Joe’s rival.
So this darn power surge knocked out my main computer. I thought surge protectors prevented that, but I guess not. It may be a little while before I can find someone to help me get my files off of my old computer. It’s a shame, because I spent three or four days working on a great new historical feature for this site. I will add it soon, nevertheless.