This post is about television towers – those biggish structures that enhance radio communications in much the same way mobile phone masts do, only more so. Here’s an image of models of some made by a German architect. The German ones tend to have lots of ‘shelves’ to place and access the important bits. (Thanks theinvisbleagent!) […]
I don’t know if last week’s Princess Elisabeth Antarctica advances the cause of architecture, promotes the concept of architecture, or sustains the myth of architecture, and I don’t think I care. What is becoming increasingly irritating is that some people believe that buildings like this are mere technical exercises outside the scope of architecture. Without a […]
Chaparral Cars was a United States automobile racing team which built race cars from 1963 through 1970. They pushed race car technology and weren’t afraid to test new ideas. The Chaparral 2 was their first big success. Here’s a Chaparral 2. It’s a bit of a beast. The Chaparral 2 featured the innovative use of fiberglass as […]
I just copied this article and added emphases where it meant something to me – mostly about missing pieces fitting. The Beauty of the Higgs Boson “The dust is beginning to settle – a new particle has been discovered using the Large Hadron Collider. Discovering new particles of nature is not an everyday occurrence and we are […]
Big news this week was the discovery of the Higgs Boson or, as cautious scientists say, the discovery, to 99.99997% certainty, of a new ‘state’ having an energy level of 125 GeV and seemingly consistent with what a Standard Model Higgs Boson is expected to be. What’s charming about the Higgs Boson is that it […]
1) Vernacular architecture of many countries has the efficient and climate-aware use of local materials. Such buildings were never intended to be called architecture. Many people now find their simple honesty refreshing. Performance-beauty architecture has a simple honesty. 2) Shanty towns on the edge of large cities such as Capetown, Rio de Janeiro, Manila or […]
