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Our laptop used to overheat every five minutes, which was great when we needed an excuse not to do an assignment, but also made for some of the most fast and furious work sessions in the history of computers. We would sit in the middle of a room full of fans, hoping the extra air [...]

In this New York Times article from Monday, Henry Fountain takes the recent unveiling of the glass boxes on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower as a jumping off point (pun intended) to discuss how new kinds of glass are finally making the architectural impulse towards completely translucent buildings a possibility. What would a [...]

We here at Listicles are pretty big architecture buffs, and nothing gets us quite as excited as really cool-looking, original buildings. Likewise, there are few things we find more disappointing, ridiculous and worthy of ridicule than completely disastrous architecture, design and engineering. That’s why we appreciate the cautionary tales encapsulated in this listicle from Oddee [...]

It seems like most major professional sports teams in the U.S. have undertaken a stadium change in the last ten years. In New York alone we have the new Mets stadium Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, and the Meadowlands’ Jets stadium all under construction. There are also more long term (likely imaginary) plans for a new [...]