Archive for February, 2009
Underground City
I picked up a copy of Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us from Indigo’s books under $10 table. I’m not sure what a book has to do to be heaved onto the $10 table…perhaps this is where former “International Bestsellers” go to spend their twilight years…next to the the Chicken Soup for the Atheist books. […]
Russian Far East and Southern Siberia
Some shots from the first section of the reverse Trans-Siberian Railway. I don’t think most of the photos are very good as the car was slightly shaky. The below slideshow transitions automatically, but larger photos can be viewed in the gallery.
Campus Space
Interestingly enough, I was thinking about public spaces this morning as I walked through the desolate, abandoned landscape that is Queen’s University – Reading Week Edition. One of the things I admire about the Queen’s campus is the way it effortlessly incorporates itself within the surrounding urban space, streets and fabric. The municipal streets slice […]
Most Hideous Building in the World?
No, it’s not the CCTV Headquarters building…which I strangely kind of like, even though it appears to epitomize masturbatory architecture and sky-line wonks nor does it fit at all into the surrounding fabric…I remain strangely drawn to it. I can’t seem to explain my new found attraction towards good ultra-modernist design. I could blame weburbanist.com, […]
Skyscraper Fire
I’ve never seen, except in movies and the time that my building in SimTower caught on fire, a high-rise blaze. The hotel complex to the side of the main, two-legged leaning structure was engulfed in fire from top to bottom. The cause of the fire was not confirmed, but local residents said it had been […]
Statistical Anomaly
I need to place a disclaimer at the top of this entry. I rarely write about my ‘life’ and prefer to avoid the topic as much as possible within the walls of this website. This isn’t to say that such entries are absent…if you scroll around in the archives I’m sure you’ll dig up some […]
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