For your next Palm Springs vacation, rent Frank Sinatra's house! The house was designed in 1947 (1946?) by E. Stewart Williams, who was also featured in the Julius Shulman show I wrote about a few months ago. Via Materialicious....

Title: Density Projects Author: Aurora Fernández Per, Javier Arpa Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: a+t ediciones ISBN: 978-84-612-1335-1 Nothing brings us more joy than architectural books in the mold of those in a+t ediciones' Density Series. In Density Projects we have...

If you are a regular reader, you know that we have an undying fetish for Star Wars inspired architecture. Sometimes its fascination with the overt references. Sometimes they're more implicit. Residence F. by the Frankfurt firm Meixner Schlute Wendt should...

Oobject gives us this gem: "Five or so architects have produced much of the most famous modern furniture." They present 15 architect-designed chairs and ask us to vote on them. Of course, there are some glaring omissions, but to me...

Only today do we discover that the Eiffel Tower is not receiving its grand absurd addition, as reported here on March 20, 2008. It was a hoax, or internet fed rumor, that the suggestion they won a competition to add...

In yet another study in the sublime scale of stadiums, StrangeHarvest gives us dozens of shots surveying the world of stadium seating. As mosaic. We're always a fan of obsessive catalogs....

The New York Times does a glossy show for the Arakawa and Madelaine Gins house in East Hampton, now apparently ready for viewing. Online. When we first mentioned the Bioscleve House, over two years ago, we were of the opinion...