Daily Diigo Public Link 01/06/2008

January 5, 2008

The ArchRecord Interview: Sir Peter Cook, Page 1 | Features | Architectural Record Ex-Archigram group member Peter Cook interview.

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/05/2008

January 4, 2008

Government and Globalization: What kind of public service does Canada need… “Government and Globalization: What Kind of Public Service Does Canada Need in Order to Thrive in the Knowledge Economy?” by Michael Lister; 23 page PDF, published by the Public Policy Forum 2007. Urbanisation / Urban Growth interactive map (BBC) Via Regine (we make money […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/04/2008

January 3, 2008

High marks for Toronto confirms quality of life amongst best in the world Annotated Via Spacing Wire Toronto, the press release from the City of Toronto, announcing that T.O. was named by Standards & Poor one of the top 10 cities in the world in which to live. What’s of real interest for other Canadian […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/03/2008

January 2, 2008

Cool Tool: True Films eBook Interesting idea from Kevin Kelly on extending the “free” with advertising through Adobe. (Via IF!) This Land: Visual Pollution | The New York Times Fascinating slide show narrated by Kevin Fry of Route 1 (which runs 2000 miles from Maine to Florida), and which is in too many places a […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/02/2008

January 1, 2008

Amalgamation: 10 years later (Toronto Star) Annotated Report by Royson James on 10th anniversary of Toronto’s amalgation — more negative (generally) than Christopher Hume’s article (also in today’s TorStar), but also full of useful info re. downloading by Province. Megacity politics in shambles 10 years later (Toronto Star) Annotated Commentary (one of several in today’s […]

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Gateway Green (Victoria)

January 1, 2008

I just discovered that the developer of Gateway Green, a new Class A office building that’s going up in Victoria this year, put my December FOCUS article online as a PDF (with the publisher’s and my permission). My article discusses Xane St.Phillips’s living wall design for this building. Go read Not just another brick in […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 01/01/2008

December 31, 2007

Toronto’s year of living large – and tall (Toronto Star) Annotated “Love it or hate it, the ROM Crystal signalled the return of ambition to our architectural stage” — Christopher Hume on the change(s) in the role of buildings, public architecture, and public perceptions around the values of public space. Sybil Wa: Architect (Toronto Star) […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 12/31/2007

December 30, 2007

Most Admired Knowledge City — MAKCi — Awards – the English in this PDF is really difficult to plow through — you can tell it was written by non-native speakers, who commit all the sins: bureaucratic language overly reliant on passive voice; overburdened sentences that (due to passive voice) avoid having a proper subject; academic […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 12/30/2007

December 29, 2007

» Chicago Spire – Das höchste Wohnhaus der Welt … – architekturvideo.de – Das Video-Blog für Architektur, Stadtplanung und Immobilien Four and a half minute video of Santiago Calatrava’s planned “Chicago Spire” (also called “Fordham Spire”), which will be the tallest residential building in the world. Looks beautiful — as does Chicago. Book review: Hyper-Border: […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 12/29/2007

December 28, 2007

BankART: Creating Art Spaces in Yokohama: PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” – description of re-purposed spaces (esp’y banks no longer in use) for creative space (Yokohama) Technology Review: Mapping Professional Networks – more on reality mining…? Portable Objects in Three Global Cities: The Personalization of Urban Places (PDF) The abstract: […]

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