99% INVISIBLE

virtualgeometry : > Playground equipment _ Isamu Noguchi

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amalgammaray : > TITUS KAPHAR

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Skater and photographer Sam Partaix documents European skate culture

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A bicycle graveyard in China

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Women’s fashion in every year from 1784-1970 

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Playgrounds of Japan at night

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99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. New episodes every Tuesday on 99pi.org. This is just the tumblr. 

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SF-based band Crashing Hotels is releasing their next album on real human x-rays … just like in 1950′s Soviet Russia. (As heard in this episode of 99pi) Support them on Kickstarter and ge...

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> The creativity of my students seemed to have no limits. I’ve > learned over my 15 years of teaching to let go of my fears of having > to come up with creative ...

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The Longest-Running Everyday GIF Artist on Tumblr Just Broke 4 Years : staff : > Angular Geometry (@angulargeometry > ) is so great!   >  >>  After we told him Tumblr’s dat...

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99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. New episodes every Tuesday on 99pi.org. This is just the tumblr. 

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“Aravrit” is a writing system developed by Israeli typeface designer Liron Lavi Turkenich. It combines Arabic and Hebrew scripts.

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The Manhattan address algorithm to help you find cross streets in New York City: 1. Drop the last number of the address you want to find. (So, if you want to find 260 Park Avenue South, drop t...

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itscolossal : > When TV Logos Were Physical Objects > 

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Legendary Finnish designer Eero Aarnio has designed a charger.  You can back Mr. Charger now

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nubbsgalore : > evgenia arbugaeva >  documents > vyacheslav korotki > , a > meteorologist who has spent the past thirty years living alone at a > remote arctic outpost o...

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bauhaus-movement : > BAUHAUS, Stairway, Dessau, 1932

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officialcrow : > cursed architechture

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Photos of Russia. Not staged. By Frank Herfort

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Architects want to put skyscrapers inside hollowed-out Giant Sequoia trees in California

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A breakdown of the ugliest buildings in the world.  > Every year since 2006, the magazine Building Design >  has honored one > special UK building with the architectural equ...

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Our composer, Sean Real, visits Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marin Civic Center

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> From: Calissa Beach  > Subject: Post Office in Supai > Date: March 16, 2017 at 11:35:10 AM PDT > To: contact@99pi.org  >  >   So once upon a time I listened to y...

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soldeabril : > dietonightliveforever- > : PRAGUE > ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK (by MariusRoman > ) They > blinded the guy who designed and built it so he’d never be able to > b...

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Solve for X: Deciphering Calibration Marks Made for Classified Spy Missions

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This week on 99pi, the origins of the sanctuary movement, in two parts.  Part 1 came out this week . Get ready for the next chapter. 

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Typography Ruined The Oscars’ Biggest Moment. This Guy Fixed It

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Behind the Scenery: The Subtle Art of Crafting Public Wilderness Trails

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The story of the Watts Towers

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Modernism by Moonlight

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Police Floodlights are Unlikely to Reduce Crime, But Could Harm Your Health - Motherboard : > Little consideration has been given to the potential health hazards > that the lights�...

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> Martello Tower Y is a small defensive fort that was one of more than > 100 built along the English coastline to resist a potential invasion > by Napoleon 200 years�...

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bauhaus-movement : > Le Corbusier, measures of man - Retrospective in Centre Georges > Pompidou - LE MODULOR - 1950

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RICHARD HAMILTON Interior

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chachidesign : > Space Cup lets astronauts drink coffee in low gravity > http://ift.tt/2lMKoST 

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> “As a doctor, I’m struck daily by how much better hospitals > could be designed. Hospitals are among the most expensive facilities > to build, with complex infrast...

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Sad Topographies: A Collection of Dismal Places to Go When Feeling Low

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buzzfeed : > 27 PICTURES THAT PROVE HOW IMPORTANT FONT DESIGN IS > 

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fuckyeahbrutalism : > Government Service Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 1964-72  >  > (Paul Rudolph, coordinating architect)

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Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids

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Urban Ghosts: Remnant Stories of Building Demolition & Graffiti Removal

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Why Does This One Couch From West Elm Suck So Much?  Comparing notes with other unsatisfied owners of the Peggy sofa ^ That article was so successful that West Elm is offering refunds

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This week on 99pi, Atomic Gardens and the quest to use nuclear energy for good. 

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The Starchitect’s Hall: High-Risk Concert Halls in the Gehry Age > The building ends up being so ambitious that it goes significantly > over the budget. Attempting to rein i...

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Seeing into Blind Spots: Clever Trick to Properly Align a Car’s Side-View Mirrors

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> Someone put stickers on milk jugs of “missing” US Rep. Paul Cook > (GOP, Calif 8th) who refuses to hold town meetings >  Ever wonder why there are faces on milk carto...

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The Last Original Frank Lloyd Wright Owners > Even though the 1950s are remembered as the era of cookie-cutter > conformity, some young couples were bold enough to have th...

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rndrd : > Tadao Ando. Japan Architect Apr 1988, 45  >  > “The horizon divides the sky from the earth, the sacred from the > profane. The captured landscape changes ...

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farisjewelry : > Brutalist building

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rndrd : > Konrad Puschel. Bauhaus 3-1 1929, 17 > “johann sebastian bach: takt 52-55 der fuge in es-moll nach > angaben von h.neugeboren gezeichnet”

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Thanks!  Here are some of my favorite prototypes of arcades and peristyles: Medinet Habu] Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba Grand Trianon Great Gostiny Dvor The Getty Villa Museum Grea...

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Endangered languages spoken in Queens, New York. 

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Watercolors by architect Steven Holl .  You can see how work like this leads to buildings like this: 

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artchiculture : > Tiny Casa in Puerto Escondido |  E-E-P-A

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99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. New episodes every Tuesday on 99pi.org. This is just the tumblr. 

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In an interview with Business Insider , Ikea design manager Marcus Engman revealed his favorite Ikea product of all-time: the Klippan loveseat .

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crazyforcars : > 1970s Mercedes models banking on the test track at Unterturkheim, in > Stuttgart

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The Great Flag Debate > It stirs our hearts today, but when the Maple Leaf became Canada’s > flag fifty years ago some saw it as a betrayal of Canadian values.

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Dubai has self-driving drone cabs!

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Usonia the Beautiful - 99% Invisible : PART TWO out now

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menskit : > Usonia by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950

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Pumped for the Future: Fueling Up at Frank Lloyd Wright's Visionary Gas Station - 99% Invisible

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> As more New Yorkers take to the streets in the coming weeks and > months, we see a powerful opportunity, and an urgent need, to make > strategic improvements to our...

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Blank Space announced the winners of their annual .  Mykhailo Ponomarenko, won the annual Fairy Tales competition with his classically painted entry “Last Day.” Ponomarenko is a Ukrainian...

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A map of the Minneapolis Skyways

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Google Brain has devised some new software that can create detailed images from tiny, pixelated source images. > First, take a look at the image on the right. The left column > c...

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The Brutalist Colouring Book - add color to concrete

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savage-america : > Herbert & Katherine James First House , Madison, Wisconsin. > Frank Lloyd Wright.   >  > ideal home

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This small hillside home in San Rafael is very similar to Usonia I. It’s on the “brow” of the hill, with no windows facing the street, and huge windows in the backside. The architect, Lois ...

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Usonia 1 - 99% Invisible : The story of the tiny house that would change America.  This is part one. Part two next Tuesday!

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Colorful Past: Photorealistic Recreations of Lost Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings

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W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

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Vintage wallpapers from the collection of Suzanne Lipschutz

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Enrico Bertini, who has taught information visualization at New York University for the past few years, put up his class materials for open use . There are lecture slides, exercises, and a course...

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Death by Tactile Paving: China's Precarious Paths for the Visually Impaired - 99% Invisible

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archatlas : > BOOKMOBILES: RARE PHOTOS OF LIBRARIES-ON-WHEELS >  > Long before Amazon, Audible, and other digital book distributors, > bookmobiles were bringing literature t...

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'One never builds something finished': the brutal brilliance of architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha

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99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. New episodes every Tuesday on 99pi.org. This is just the tumblr. 

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Detroit’s Pattern of Growth: Four Key Factors Explain Motor City's Conflicted Grid - 99% Invisible

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To Obama With Love, and Hate, and Desperation

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The Eponymist - 99% Invisible

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Eco-Warfare: Seed Bullets & Bombs for a Guerrilla Gardener's Green Arsenal - 99% Invisible

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Ice lumps referred to as jewelry ice appear every winter on a beach at the mouth of the Tokachi River on Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan

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nexttoparchitects : > #next_top_architects PennDesign stand in solidarity worth our > colleagues at @yalearchitecture and @columbiagsapp #NoBanNoWall > 📷: @morgsauce

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Nebraska flag flew upside down at Capitol for 10 days and 'nobody noticed,' says senator who wants design change

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Stave Churches: wooden houses of worship that combine the austere architecture of Christianity with the Nordic designs of a Viking great hall. Think Nordic dragons + Christian saints.

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amare-habeo : > CHARLES-EDOUARD LE CORBUSIER (Swiss-French, 1887 - 1965)   >  > Hand and flint (Main et silex),  1951  >  > Pen and Indian ink, charcoal on collage, ...

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gashetka : > 1942 | LISUNOV LI-2 (Лисунов Ли-2) | Minsk, Belarus > | SOURCE 

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A Designer's Guide To Surviving Four Years Of Trump

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99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. New episodes every Tuesday on 99pi.org. This is just the tumblr. 

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Inside Budapest’s secret Bauhaus treasures

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The Voice of Mario

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99% Invisible is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the 99% invisible activity that shapes our world. New episodes every Tuesday on 99pi.org. This is just the tumblr. 

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No Parking Anytime: The Bold New Future of Driverless Cars

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The Tree Hotel is a collection of treehouse rooms in Sweden.  The most recent addition: the 7th Room , by Snohetta

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scavengedluxury : > Church of St. Ildefonso. Porto, March 2016.

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Vertical Strip Mall: A Decaying Monument to Modern Drive-Through Consumerism in Venezuela 

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The work and library of bookmaker Irma Boom

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The Red Cross Presents: Syria Street .  An extraordinary interactive article

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Decoding Rings: Beneath the Mysterious Brick Circles on San Francisco Streets - 99% Invisible

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