Abandonedography
Armchair travelling to Ballardian locations.
Tags: architecture
Science Fiction Film as Design Scenario Exercise for Psychological Habitability: Production Designs 1955-2009
A white paper that looks to sci-fi films as potential prototypes for habitats for humans in space, with an emphasis on dealing with the psychological issues involved.
Forget Your Past – Timothy Allen | Photography | Film
A trip to Buzludzha in Bulgaria, a derelict monument to an abandoned ideology.
Shimizu’s Dream - Shimizu Corporation
Among the proposed projects from the Shimizu corporation are a space hotel, giant lakes in the desert, and a ring around the moon to harness solar energy.
Secret Servers | booktwo.org
A great piece by James on the architecture, aesthetics and perception of datacenters.
Top 10: The architecture of Star Wars (pt I) | The Critics | Architects Journal
An architectural overview of the Star Wars universe. Design fiction.
SYMBIOTIC HOUSEHOLDS on Vimeo
Design fictional biohacking.
Should you build your own home? (Phil Gyford’s website)
Oh, what a lovely metaphor! What's your online home?
URBAGRAM
A nifty exploration of architecture and urban planning that describes itself as "a set of interlinked concepts, models, speculations, probings, essays and artefacts based on urban systems."
The Abandoned Palace On Beekman Street « Scouting NY
This looks like the New York equivalent of The Bradbury Building.
Don’t listen to Le Corbusier—or Jakob Nielsen : Cheerful
A beautiful call to arms against engineerism in design. Software cries out for love.
Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.
Eleven years old and more relevant than ever.
Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined
A Q&A with Ridley Scott on the eve of releasing Blade Runner: The Final Cut.
disambiguity - » Yes, you should be using personas
Great post by Leisa on the real reasons for using personas (they might not be the reasons you think).
disambiguity - » Waterfall Bad, Washing Machine Good (IA Summit 07 Slides)
Leisa's slides from the IA Summit in Vegas. Looks like it was an excellent presentation, channelling the spirit of Kelly Goto and Jeff Veen.
The New Yorker: Game Master
A profile of Will Wright. I'm really looking forward to hearing him speak at SXSW this year.
Happy Cog Studios: Work: Dictionary.com
Happy Cog redesigns Dictionary.com and its siblings.
Card sorting pix
Flickr photo set, AIGA card sorting exercise.
Fun with Google Maps 2
You'd think someone in the architect's office would have spotted this.