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“In the early years of the Soviet Union, many believed that architecture could function as a tool of social transformation. It was a … gulfstream/1759
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Architecture of London, England - Great Buildings Online
The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel on Software
"Abstractions fail. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. There's leakage. Things go wrong. It happens all over the place when you have abstractions. Here are some examples"
Classification of HTTP APIs
Table comparing various REST and REST-like architectures.
John Seabrook on Zaha Hadid’s new building in Rome: Audio Slide Show : The New Yorker
Audio slideshow on Zaha Hadid, and her new MAXXI gallery in Rome.
Ancient Church Converted into Modern Bookstore
Impressive "conversion" of a church into a modern bookstore. (Conversion is in quotes because it seems all they really did was add bookshelves.)
Loft Cube | Uncrate
"Ever wonder what it would be like to build a place on the top of a small building? That's exactly what the Loft Cube (From $111,000) was designed for — that, and people on the move. The Cube was designed to be a temporary living structure, which can be placed anywhere from rooftops in Berlin to a prairie in South Dakota."
parroquia san paolo | massimiliano fuksas | TOTONKO
nice modern church in sao paolo. (enormous concrete cut cube suspended inside.)
Agile Testing: Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2
"At OpenX we recently completed a large-scale deployment of one of our server farms to Amazon EC2. Here are some lessons learned from that experience."
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
amazing modern church
CHRISTOPH MORLINGHAUS
some great photographs of modern churches
Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it | High Scalability
long piece on why latency matters, and how to improve it
Facebook | Engineering @ Facebook's Notes
how facebook handles replication across datacenters. seems as though one of the reasons they have .php on their urls is that special-case url handling is baked into the load balances.
ongoing · REST Questions
"And I think there’s a lesson here: that statelessness, like many other good things (Buddha-nature, purely descriptive markup) is an Aristotelian virtue; unattainable in an absolute sense, but rewarded to the extent you can practice it."
Cabinet Magazine Online - Fragments from a History of Ruin
"Romanticism turns the ruin into a symbol of all artistic creation; the literary or painted fragment is more highly prized than the finished or unified work"
Google spotlights data center inner workings | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
a little bit of detail on the architecture of google's datacenters
Gojko Adzic » Lazy web sites run faster
Time Out New York: Space craft
special on small spaces
ArchitectNotes - Varnish - Trac
the design of varnish, a reverse proxy. supposedly written the way kernel code is now written (no distinction between ram and disk--let the kernel worry about paging)
Writers' rooms | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Books
Fallingwater, The Movie
fly-through of fallingwater construction and final product.
But does it work? | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts
what are various acclaimed uk buildings like to work in?
PartIV » Blog Archive » Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit.
An Inside Look at Philip Johnson’s Glass House - Home Design Spring 2007 -- New York Magazine
Branislav Kropilak photography
無印良品［無印良品の家］
pre-fabricated house by muji
無印良品［無印良品の家］
pre-fabricated muji house
Lust for Height — AMERICAN.COM: A Magazine of Ideas, Online
where big buildings are, where they're being built, and why
Architecture Portal News: Tremendous Symbiosis of Progress and Nature [Pics]
A San Francisco museum reinvented. - By Witold Rybczynski - Slate Magazine
Powers of 10 | Metropolis Magazine
10 engineering marvels
Inside MySpace.com
the architecture of myspace
The Evelina Children's Hospital Appeal | Hospital
what's the address?!
Slide show: Adventurous visions - arts - International Herald Tribune
Can good architecture help the sick? By Witold Rybczynski
The New Yorker: The Critics: The Sky Line
architect is Rocio Romero, house is called Laguna Verde