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Did not know that Bertolucci made a three-part documentary series about 'the path/road of oil' — La via del petrolio — for Italian TV in the mid-1960s.

#petrotelevision

bernardobertolucci.org/film/la-via-...

We need to structurally separate user data from applications so that applications become *users* of data rather than *containers* for it.

the quotidian beauty of New York City

Look Inside Richard Hell’s East Village Tenement Apartment (Gift Article) The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.

Gift Hell...No paywall:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#ICYMI

VOID | TEAM_BLDG | Archinect At the end of 2019, we were commissioned by the JIANGJIABAN to travel to Beijing for a preliminary site visit for their new exhibition

"Inspired by the Indian stepwells, we decided to design the space without color attributes and decorative elements. Using simple geometric shapes to create a layered sense of order in the site" archinect.com/firms/projec... via @archinect.bsky.social

Sordo Madaleno wins competition for Hungarian museum archive with stratified brick facade Mexico City-based Sordo Madaleno, in collaboration with építész stúdió and engineering firm Buro Happold, has won the international competition to design the new Collection Centre for the Hungarian Mu...

"A stratified brick facade references Hungary’s geological diversity, with bricks produced from soils sourced across different regions of the country. Variations in color are intended to symbolically reflect the museum’s fields of study" archinect.com/news/bustler... via @archinect.bsky.social

Hi hello has anyone compiled a list of Black writers who live around or engage with the North American Great Lakes region? And if not does anyone wanna collaborate on making a list bc I think one should exist

How the flavors of the Middle East ended up in Mexico Chef Roberto Santibañez shares the history behind Mexican dishes with Middle Eastern influences.

I only learned from @splendidtable.org back in 2013 www.splendidtable.org/story/2013/0...

What is The Birth of a Capital? This post is decades in the making. Since high school, I have been interested in a particular part of my childhood that neighbors discussed uneasily, or apologetically, if at all. The big park up the ...

When we reclaim DC, it will not be enough to restore its institutions. We will need to build it anew.

But to fix our Nation's Capital, we first have to understand why it is the way it is: leafy, monumental, and segregated.

🗃 That is what I am trying to do with my book, as I explain in this post:

#SFUAB #thisisfine

Save Dallas City Hall | Dallas, TX The future of Dallas City Hall is too important to be decided in shady back-room dealings or on numbers no one trusts. Contact your council person today! Save Dallas City Hall!

Much more serious things happening in the world, obvi, but if you live in the DFW region, Dallas is taking a vote on March 4 to decide the future of one of the most important pieces of 20th century architecture, IM Pei's city hall building. Contact the city council and urge preservation.

Cazzu 1st July 2025 Playing Bolero, Bachata, Latin Soul, Afro Cuban Jazz. Argentine icon Cazzu plays a selection of soulful cuts that inspired the release of her new album Latinaje.

#currentlylistening to "a selection of soulful cuts" www.nts.live/shows/guests... via #Cazzu + #NTSRadio

Herzog & de Meuron unveils Dubai towers with sculpted columns Herzog & de Meuron has designed a new mixed-use development in the Dubai International Financial Centre. The project, titled Janu Dubai, spans 1.3 million square feet and will include hospitality, res...

#ICYMI "Oh, we're doing sculptural Dubai towers again? Probably means we're due another Global Financial Crisis." archinect.com/news/article... via @archinect.bsky.social

+ "I was in an actual revolutionary Trot party. I’m not now but I still believe it’s the only vanguardist movement with the correct theoretical approach. However, having read a lot more syndicalist...anarchist stuff since...some of that has leached in...When it comes down to it, class overrules all"

weekend in medieval New York, starting with Spectrum of Desire at the Cloisters

gigantic outlines of the McCook reservoir looming 3000' over Chicago in mirrored glass

I love this illustration of Chicago's flood control reservoirs, because it looks like a rejected entry in the WTC competition.

Home | Reimagine the River Reimagine the River is providing a platform to raise awareness, enhance understanding, and identify opportunities for collaboration and partnership between the people and organizations working along…

Join us on March 18th at Reimagine The River event hosted by the 1803 Fund, Willamette Falls Trust, and EcoTrust. We will bring our favorite 2026 topics to the conversations: CEI Hub, Portland Harbor Superfund cleanup, Portland's EOA/CCIL, and the North Reach River Plan. www.reimaginetheriver.com

Plan and section of the State of Illinois building (Thompson Center) in Chicago. The drawing is done in colored pencil, sepia ink, and oil pastels on tracing paper.

New online database for the permanent collection of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt.

For example: a presentation drawing for Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center.

sammlungen.dam-online.de

#SFUAB #thisisfine

when the economist speaks, there are only two acceptable replies:

We The Heartbroken - Pluto Press Get 40% off books on love, desire, care & more! In this blog, Gargi Bhattacharyya writes on the state of being for a revolutionary in 2020. Inspired by a younger comrade admitting to heartbreak arisin...

the heartbreak comes from amazing gargi bhattacharyya who proposes that the heartbrokeness (by racial capitalism) is the new class consciousness in “we, the heartbroken” www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...

Poster for "Monstrous Intimacies at 15," an in-person colloquium dedicated to the impact of Christina Sharpe's first monograph. It will be held June 22 - 24, 2026 in Toronto, Canada. The poster features a photograph of a light taken by Boz Deseo Garden.

Mark your calendars! Monstrous Intimacies at 15—a colloquium dedicated to Christina Sharpe's monograph—will be held in Toronto, Ontario on June 22-24, 2026! @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Would I date this Denver building?

One River North

Felt catfished when we met. His profile pics only capture his good side.

Starved for attention.

Eager to flash his Chase Kyawthuite Member Reserve Plus Visa™️ card when the check comes. “I get octuple points on dining,” he reminds me.

I’ll pass.

The King is mad

20 yrs ago these two underrated & barely seen texts came out that presciently explain 2026.

Sun @ 11am: Julia Morgan Legacy Day

"The #SantaMonica Conservancy co-hosts the annual Julia Morgan Legacy Day at the Annenberg Community Beach House, honoring the legendary architect and engineer whose work helped shape the historic heart of our site."

smconservancy.org/event/julia-...

Found: The 19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema.

A newly rediscovered 1897 short by famed French filmmaker Georges Méliès is being hailed as the first-ever depiction of a robot in cinema. n.pr/3N9XSav

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

It’s still February, and #Boulder has a new fire—started near Chautauqua and Bluebell. Fingers crossed that they get it knocked down quickly.

#BluebellFire watchduty incident updates here:

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Tatjana Wood R.I.P. What an fabulous colourist she was. To take but her work on Swamp Thing: in what may just be the greatest monthly comic ever, her contribution was every bit the equal as that of her illustrious colleagues. And Swamp Thing was no easy book to colour. My cap is doffed with respect.