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Any pet of ours will have to build its own home from scratch. We will provide tools and maybe some help with drafting blueprints, but the rest will be left up to its more or less capable paws. This is not intended as some sort of animal cruelty; we have rather high hopes for animal [...]

Wide open spaces make us nervous. We thrive off the forced conviviality and warmth of narrow apartments and tight offices overlooking tiny streets that we careen down on our bicycles (which are also narrow). Once, after mistakenly signing a lease on a warehouse-like loft apartment, we built a tiny, tool shed-sized shack inside it as [...]

Presumably by now you know about Tumblr blog extraordinaire and pop culture poetry haven Godzilla Haiku, right? Well, while reading it we are constantly reminded of the integral role played by miniature city sets in some of our favorite sci-fi films, and quite a few childhood memories. Really, few things are more fun to build, [...]

Have you ever scene that really cheap-looking TV movie version of the Stephen King book The Langoliers with David Morse? Well, it involves an airplane flying through some sort of inter-dimensional vortex, and when it lands at its destination the passengers find themselves in this eerily uninhabited airport somehow outside of time. They’re eventually mostly [...]

When Listicles was just a little start-up (last week) our offices were housed in a corner of a friends apartment, which was in an abandoned, half-finished condo we were squatting. It was easily the weirdest apartment building that we had ever lived in. It’s also not exactly the kind of place that would show up [...]

As kids we played with a very old and old-fashioned dollhouse, replete with lace curtains, paisley wallpaper and mansard roofs. It was also looking old for its age: the elevator was broke, the area under the porch hadn’t been cleaned in years. We longed for one of those nice, clean, modern-looking dollhouses that rich folks’ [...]

For many years we tried our hand at gingerbread house construction, although it quickly became apparent that this discipline wasn’t for us when the best model we could construct was the one with a roof and two walls. Anything more than that tended to collapse (read: be eaten) before completion. Let’s just say that it’s [...]

Over the weekend the city of Dubai and its crazy pop-up economy that seems built on little more than quicksand garnered quite a bit of attention when one of the United Arab Emirates’ major banking groups asked for money to ensure that there wouldn’t be a run on its banks amid fears of excessive borrowing [...]

One of our favorite buildings in the world, the Vancouver Public Library, is in the shape of a snail, which in our minds makes it a food-shaped building. We gather that for most people snails are merely an insect of some sort, which must be why that cool structure was left out of WebUrbanist’s listicle [...]

We once went to a concert in the Sydney Opera House, and though the actual performance hall was a spectacular wood-paneled space and the exterior is stunning, the halls and communal spaces inside the opera house look like a parking garage. So we wonder if it really belongs on The Coolist’s listicle of 10 Modern [...]