Month: October 2002

I’ve become enamoured of the 300 m tall Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. It’s something, but will never be finished.

Drama at the Prada store! No surprise: the famous and rather silly glass elevator at Prada gets stuck. Read it at Vogue.co.uk

Is the end of the era of signature museums at hand? See the NY Times article The Prado Gets Ready to Stretch

If Los Angeles’s urban sprawl is not getting much worse, this is largely the result of the city having reached its geographical limits. In other parts of Southern California, sprawl continues unchecked. The LA Times reports on the Inland Empire as the worst example of Sprawl in the nation. See Swallowed by Urban Sprawl

The LA Times reports on a modern day version of the Owens River Valley story. See Proposed Sale of Water Creates Divisions in Desert

Architecture Urbanism Design Collaborative’s web site has been updated. Two projects, Superbrutalism and Cardboard Orthogonal Blob, are now available on-line in their entirety. Enjoy.

Click here for a gallery showing the remnants of 30 dot.coms, all on the auction block today.

Urinal Dot Net’s relentlessness simply must be admired.

The New York Times reports that even with the recession, certain second-tier cities, such as Baltimore, are growing as people “trade down” from more expensive metropolitan areas. See Some Urban Areas Keep Finding New Ways to Grow

Will the MTA extend the Red Line under Wilshire Boulevard after all? Read this article from the LA TImes, reprinted at the Wilshire Center web site.