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OMA unveils domed Casa Wabi Mushroom Pavilion - United Kingdom The New York office of OMA has created an incubator for mushroom production on the campus of arts organisation Fundación Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico.

“We conceived a pavilion for the very specific function of mushroom cultivation while offering a space for people to come together" www.europesays.com/uk/808648/ re: #CasaWabi

#CriticalInfrastructure #systempunkt

RTD ridership is down 40%, its budget has holes, and lawmakers are fed up “Cuts to service are unacceptable. We want more transit in the future,” said James Flattum, co-founder of the Greater Denver Transit advocacy group.

"Do we have dedicated lanes for all buses...When I get on a light rail vehicle now, why am I sitting at a traffic signal when cars are going by...The City and County of Denver does not have a transit-first policy" www.denverpost.com/2026/02/13/r... via @denverpost.com #transiturbanism

DIA changes course; will consider mass transit as part of Peña Boulevard solution DIA officials are rethinking their Peña Boulevard expansion project and will consider public transit as part of the solution to congestion on the road.

"GreenLatinos, Greater Denver Transit, the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, and other groups have been challenging highway projects around metro Denver...including DIA’s planned widening of Peña Boulevard" www.denverpost.com/2026/02/22/d... via @denverpost.com h/t @bikewalkbus.bsky.social

#ICYMI

The elevator at The Victor Hotel!

Golden Brown’s Whisker Fatigue on vinyl

If you play this @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social LP at 45 rpm, it turns into a drippy funk-psych dance party. Highly recommend the alternate speed (and the regular one, too).

Just a reminder it was 70° yesterday and it'll be 70° again on Monday.

#COwx

The Neoliberalism of Robert A.M. Stern The passing of postmodern architecture’s last living holdout marks the end of an era—and reminds us that we’re in a new, worse one.

“It is impolite to speak ill of the dead, but the times in which the dead were living and working are fair game.”

support one of the few serious (if badly underfunded) primary challenges to our lackluster senate democrats www.julieforcolorado.com

A hearing on Trump’s ballroom gets heated Speakers weighing in during a marathon session yesterday included architects, preservationists, and a Labrador retriever from New Orleans named Willie; “If you want to sue me, I’ll see you in court”

Good summary of yesterday's meeting from @hawthorne.bsky.social

Do you think they were disrupted/relocated by the tree trimming?

As in momentum against has built? Does that have anything to do with the court case?

I liked it but was a big fan of first two!

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Did not know that Bertolucci made a three-part documentary series about 'the path/road of oil' — La via del petrolio — for Italian TV in the mid-1960s.

#petrotelevision

bernardobertolucci.org/film/la-via-...

We need to structurally separate user data from applications so that applications become *users* of data rather than *containers* for it.

the quotidian beauty of New York City

Look Inside Richard Hell’s East Village Tenement Apartment (Gift Article) The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.

Gift Hell...No paywall:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#ICYMI

VOID | TEAM_BLDG | Archinect At the end of 2019, we were commissioned by the JIANGJIABAN to travel to Beijing for a preliminary site visit for their new exhibition

"Inspired by the Indian stepwells, we decided to design the space without color attributes and decorative elements. Using simple geometric shapes to create a layered sense of order in the site" archinect.com/firms/projec... via @archinect.bsky.social

Sordo Madaleno wins competition for Hungarian museum archive with stratified brick facade Mexico City-based Sordo Madaleno, in collaboration with építész stúdió and engineering firm Buro Happold, has won the international competition to design the new Collection Centre for the Hungarian Mu...

"A stratified brick facade references Hungary’s geological diversity, with bricks produced from soils sourced across different regions of the country. Variations in color are intended to symbolically reflect the museum’s fields of study" archinect.com/news/bustler... via @archinect.bsky.social

Hi hello has anyone compiled a list of Black writers who live around or engage with the North American Great Lakes region? And if not does anyone wanna collaborate on making a list bc I think one should exist

How the flavors of the Middle East ended up in Mexico Chef Roberto Santibañez shares the history behind Mexican dishes with Middle Eastern influences.

I only learned from @splendidtable.org back in 2013 www.splendidtable.org/story/2013/0...

What is The Birth of a Capital? This post is decades in the making. Since high school, I have been interested in a particular part of my childhood that neighbors discussed uneasily, or apologetically, if at all. The big park up the ...

When we reclaim DC, it will not be enough to restore its institutions. We will need to build it anew.

But to fix our Nation's Capital, we first have to understand why it is the way it is: leafy, monumental, and segregated.

🗃 That is what I am trying to do with my book, as I explain in this post:

#SFUAB #thisisfine

Save Dallas City Hall | Dallas, TX The future of Dallas City Hall is too important to be decided in shady back-room dealings or on numbers no one trusts. Contact your council person today! Save Dallas City Hall!

Much more serious things happening in the world, obvi, but if you live in the DFW region, Dallas is taking a vote on March 4 to decide the future of one of the most important pieces of 20th century architecture, IM Pei's city hall building. Contact the city council and urge preservation.

Cazzu 1st July 2025 Playing Bolero, Bachata, Latin Soul, Afro Cuban Jazz. Argentine icon Cazzu plays a selection of soulful cuts that inspired the release of her new album Latinaje.

#currentlylistening to "a selection of soulful cuts" www.nts.live/shows/guests... via #Cazzu + #NTSRadio

Herzog & de Meuron unveils Dubai towers with sculpted columns Herzog & de Meuron has designed a new mixed-use development in the Dubai International Financial Centre. The project, titled Janu Dubai, spans 1.3 million square feet and will include hospitality, res...

#ICYMI "Oh, we're doing sculptural Dubai towers again? Probably means we're due another Global Financial Crisis." archinect.com/news/article... via @archinect.bsky.social

+ "I was in an actual revolutionary Trot party. I’m not now but I still believe it’s the only vanguardist movement with the correct theoretical approach. However, having read a lot more syndicalist...anarchist stuff since...some of that has leached in...When it comes down to it, class overrules all"