Archive for the 'Architecture' Category

Frank Gehry gives the term “Visionary Architect” a whole, new meaning.

Monday, March 1st, 2010

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The Rasin Building, also known as the Dancing House
or the Fred and Ginger Building,
designed by Frank Gehry in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Frank Gehry’s Stata Centeer, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.
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Building in Conception, Chile after an 8.8
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Images: (Stata) via foxnews.com (Rasin) via architecture-student.com (top caption) via academyofachievement.org

Another funny man joins Vincenzo Kolchak & Patapsco Jack.

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

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Images: (Stadium picture) by Brandon Thibodeaux for the New York Times; (Portable CD player) via lakewoodconferences.com

What’s Jerry going to do if Perry secedes? That Confederate Football League lasted only 4 plus seasons.

Friday, July 17th, 2009

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Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times Mr. Thibodeaux was the photographer
for all of the following Cowboy Stadium shots.
The new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tx, is a three million square foot structure that is three times the size of the team’s old home, Texas Stadium.

A Texas-Size StadiumBy RICHARD SANDOMIR
Published: July 16, 2009ARLINGTON, Tex. — Jerry […]

Dubai & China battle for altitude. Paul Bunyan “gives ‘em what for.”

Monday, September 1st, 2008

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Images: TOP: Paul–upload.wikimedia.org; tower–d.yimg.com;  BOTTOM: toilet + toilet tissue–gogreenkekowna.com; newspaper–carlo.net;  Paul–worldslargestthings.com; tower–i5.photbucket.com via urbanity.es;

I gotta get me one of ‘em silk windbreakers to go with my horseshoe cleats.

Friday, July 18th, 2008

North Korea’s “Hotel of Doom” wakes from its coma
By Jon Herskovitz Thu Jul 17, 3:56 AM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea’s phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as “the worst building in the history of mankind,” the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in […]

Dubai will have the world’s first–and hopefully only–rotating skyscraper.

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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Images: (Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks) (zoetrope) & (NO symbol) commons.wikimedia.org;(Sheikh) (PA) & (zoetrope pix) newsimg.bbc.co.uk; (screen door) is.hsc.uth.tmc.edu; (revolving door) glassmagazine.net;(Dubai towers) (Rotating skyscraper) Associated Press

Story.

Or, we could call it 582 million Quarter-Pounders…

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Huge beef recall stems from Calif. plant
By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer Mon Feb 18, 2:11 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.
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Officials said […]

Here’s the skinny. Buicks are out. From now on church raffles will only consider field artillery and cruise missiles.

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Religious Earmarks on the Rise
Critics Worry That Federal Funds Are Subsidizing Evangelism By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
October 31, 2007
When Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) pulled a controversial $100,000 earmark two weeks ago for a state organization promoting creationist theories, Americans United for Separation of Church and State and other groups hailed it as a significant step […]

I was only able to find a few photographs, but they do hint of the project’s scope.

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Criminal probe into U.S. Embassy in Iraq construction
By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2007
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WASHINGTON —
McClatchy Newspapers
has also learned that:— Aspects of the embassy’s construction are the subject of at least one U.S. government criminal investigation, according to officials in Congress and the administration. They spoke […]

It’s still more edifying than a pumpernickel seed which resembles the Virgin Mary.

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

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Navy to alter swastika-shaped barracks
Associated Press
Wed Sep 26, 2:20 PM ET
CORONADO, Calif. - The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, a gaffe that went largely unnoticed before satellite images became easily accessible on the Internet.
The Navy said officials noted the […]