Building Another Aircraft Carrier

So Frank Gehry is building a skyscraper in New York city. The Gutter and Curbed seem to the think the real story is who got the scoop on the proposal. More importantly for NYC is the impact the tower will have on their city and for the rest of us the impact it will [...]

On when Is should be Has

He is schizophrenic. She is bipolar. He is a depressive.She is developmentally delayed. He is schizoid.She is mentally ill.
The illnesses may be frightening to some but if we're just talking verbs here none of the above sounds troubling, correct? In fact it's how we refer to people with mental illness and [...]

twIT girl.

We pull up to the twenty four hour grocery, me and my Right Honourable friend, in my bird poop splattered bumper-less little Civic. I just need fags and maybe a loaf of bread – shouldn't take long. As I head to the store's entrance I take note of the four illegally parked vehicles in [...]

THE BEASTS!

Photo from Corp Athlete. Image of Pitt Bull by dubuc.
Chart attributed to FIGURE 1 from this abstract in Pediatrics Magazine.

Can you imagine my horror when I read in the Toronto Star (May 5, section B, GTA) that Dachshunds are the fifth most likely breed of dog to bite children under seventeen years of [...]

MONSTER BONES

(Photos by Terri Meyer Boake)
The Crystal is the name given to the extension to the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), designed by the now famous Daniel Libeskind. Its currently under construction in Toronto.
Crystal. You're thinking reflective, transparent, prism, hard-edged, multi-faceted. And at the beginning that's what it seemed it would be – a gigantic collision [...]

Fabulous Fuselages

Thanks to Jill at Inhabitat (now on WordPress no less) for showcasing such a cool idea for a building.
An entry for a library design competition in Guadalajara, basically this proposal is a bunch of refurbished fuselages (that would otherwise be discarded) stacked on top of one another with catwalks and an open central core.But it's [...]