Dwell on Design
Life Without Buildings is providing some nice coverage of Dwell on Design (presented by *gasp* Dwell Magazine) happening this weekend in San Francisco. Check out all the latest updates on the homepage.
via Life w/o Buildings — Events

German Town Scraps Road Signs to Increase Safety
Eventually I'll get around to finishing the EPIC post I've been working on about "shared space" (wow, I just waaay over-built that one up) but for now read this and as a primer... and yes there will be a test on this.
via Spiegel — Urban

London and New York in battle to be ... Capital of Cool
Wait a sec... I thought that London wasn't cool anymore... that's what that Spiegel article I Clipped two weeks ago said. So confroozing...
via Guardian — Urban

Architect makes Scale Model of Housing Proposal in Lego
Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group, this is a 1:50 scale model of Lego Towers, a proposed housing development for Copenhagen — made of Lego.
via Gizmodo — Architecture

Write for designBOT
Do you have what it takes to write for our fun 'n' funky sister site? Well? Do you?!
via Land+Living — Announcements

For the dead
Four projects by Studio Elastico, architects based in Torino, Italy.
via Archidose — Architecture

Video: Eames Lounge Chair 1956 debut
Charles and Ray Eames introduce their brand new Lounge Chair on the Arlene Francis "Home" show, broadcast on NBC in 1956.
via Archinect — Furniture

swissmiss on blogging etiquette
Excellent... thank you for putting that out there, swissmiss.
via swissmiss — Misc

A new focus on the City
"A muted conversation about city growth"
via Globe and Mail — Urban

You say natural. I say neglected. (well... not me necessarily)
"A growing number of urban gardeners are facing off with their neighbours over how they tend their plots: wild and eco-friendly or manicured and weed-free."
via Globe and Mail — Landscape

Architectural Shifts, Global and Local
Starchitect designs around the world... ready go.
via NY Times — Architecture

15 Green Buildings
Grist is giving us our list fix lately... here are their choices for the best green buildings in the world. Sorry Mr. Mayne, your green efforts didn't make the cut.
via Grist — Green

Tree dimensional in New Zealand
Haha ha ha haaaaa... ahem. Newbie architect Chris Tate builds himself a Miesian treehouse near Auckland, New Zealand.
via Telegraph — Architecture

Get your organic drink on
Save the planet with a buzz...
via Chicago Tribune — Culinary

Backyard geometry
A before-and-after story of a Los Angeles garden designed by Judy Kameon of Elysian Landscapes. [slideshow]
via Sunset — Landscape

Adjaye’s new building at Rivington Place is an answer to his critics
"With an OBE and a place on last year’s Stirling shortlist David Adjaye has a level of fame that could be seen as disproportionate to his achievements. But his latest building, a base for two cultural organisations in east London, should help redress this imbalance." [images]
via Building Design — Architecture

Developers Unveil Plans for Trade Center Site
The Times talks about what Curbed is showing... see previous linkage to WTC enchilada for images.
via NY Times — Architecture

WTC Final Designs
Curbed served up the whole World Trade Center enchilada... including detailed renderings of Tower 2 by Norman Foster, Tower 3 by Richard Rogers, and Tower 4 by Fumihiko Maki. Follow the links! Follow follow follow follow...
via Curbed — Architecture

Gray Water Hackers
Across the country people are disconnecting the pipes taking water from their homes to local water treatment plants and re-directing their "gray water" to their gardens and fruit trees.
via NPR — Green

Topo rug
Dutch interior design firm Studio Laurens van Wieringen created a walk-on topographic landscape of soft foam blocks of varying height and color.
via Boing Boing — Floor - Wall

Hack 2 School Guide
Core's "definitive guide" for design students... from the classroom to the dorm room yada yada.
via Core77 — Misc

Business Card Booklets
Booklets of 20 perforated business cards complete with protective cover, from shineboxprint. Good idea.
via swissmiss — Graphics

BBC sees green and runs
The BBC has scrapped plans for Planet Relief, a TV special on climate change.
via BBC — Green

The Architecture Job Application
Hints & Suggestions from Employers for the architecture job seeker... nicely done.
via Archinect — Architecture

Kings Road Klutz
Christopher Hawthorne thinks that Lorcan O'Herlihy's new condo complex next door to the 1922 Schindler House swings and whiffs.
via LA Times — Architecture

Remembering a Coffee Revolutionary
I'm drinking a Peet's coffee right now... as I do most every day. And today I shed a tear into my Peet's brew in memory of Alfred H. Peet, founder of Peet's Coffee and Tea and pioneer of craft-brewed coffee in America.
via NY Times — Culinary

Britian's Top 50
The brightest design stars of the UK according to The Guardian .
via Guardian — Designers

Room to Improve
"Can I decorate walls with texture instead of color?"
via NY Times — Floor - Wall

Smelt ruling may cut into water supply
More water woes for Southern California. This time, protective meaures for a tiny endangered fish might cut water flowing from NorCal to SoCal by a third or more.
via LA Times — Misc

Radical contectualists
"A new generation of European architects who are rejecting recent architecture’s ironic posturing in favour of something fundamentally contextual."
via Building Design — Architecture