Its pretty clear that the last couple of years have been a tipping point for books – they are indeed the new vinyl. What this means is that people will keep special books, like they keep special records, and the rest will be digital. It will be about quality rather than quantity.

La Coruna Center For The Arts by aceboXalonso studio

Via Architizer, we found this great post about the legendary apartment Walt Disney had on main street in Disneyland.

Thixotropes Lighting Installation by Troika

Bulb Wheel Chandelier by Tom Dixon

WA House by MAPA

Nursery School La Malpensata, Italy

Geo-cognition by Wendy Fok

The Modern Architecture Game

…you know, the 50+ story buildings with a ship on top filled with water.

…or Pompidou, if you like French presidents.

The flea market chic look that's taken over as the rich try and distance themselves from mid century modern that looks like IKEA.

Still its pretty great.

I've seen fluorescent tubes used to make a tensegrity lamp before, but still, I like it.

Site pictures of Cite des Arts et de la Culture by Kengo Kuma & Associates

The Alma Hotel proposal by LAN Architecture overlooks a Chilean desert. What's incredible is it has three potentially iconic views each one enough to make it a masterpiece: from the horizontal block floating on glass, to the layered wafers of the roofscape to the interior courtyard.

Best project I've seen in ages.

BLDGBLOG: Landscapes of Dredge

I.Rain Light Installation by Thierry Gaugain

Parisian Theaters by Franck Bohbot