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Taipei Performing Arts Center by OMA.

Taipei Performing Arts Center by OMA.

Architecture, Around the web by Open Journal

Can a public theatre still be inclusive, accommodating the classic and the serendipitous, the highbrow and the masses, the artistic and the social—a place for the creative life of all?

UN World Happiness Report 2021.

UN World Happiness Report 2021.

Around the web, Ideas by Open Journal

Now in its 9th year, the World Happiness Report has become a touchstone in understanding global happiness and the driving forces which impact and affect it.

The Problem With ‘Social Distancing’

The Problem With ‘Social Distancing’

Around the web, Open Musings by Open Journal

'Social distancing' to disrupt the spread of Coronavirus is a term we need to re-think to ensure one pandemic isn't replaced by another.

Not Going Home Yet: Intrepid Opportunities

Not Going Home Yet: Intrepid Opportunities

Around the web, People by Open Journal

Societies thirst for outstanding aspirational and inspirational imagery that transports the humble viewer from the couch on to unparalleled journey's of the imagination is something we simply never tire of. Diane Durongpisitkul's photograph's do just that.

The Ghost Cities of Vietnam: A Case Study in Urban Development

The Ghost Cities of Vietnam: A Case Study in Urban Development

Architecture, Around the web by Open Journal

We naturally seek out precedents when weighing up the pro’s and con’s of any change in direction and the urban development of our built environments is no different.

Urban Rigger by BIG

Urban Rigger by BIG

Architecture, Around the web by Open Journal

A couple of years ago, a strange collection of shipping containers was lashed to a barge and tethered to the ocean floor on Copenhagen's picturesque waterfront. The strange floating mass, aptly named the Urban Rigger, was the first prototype in the hunt for a solution to a global shortage of student housing in major cities.

Behind the 808 & 909: Roland Factory Visit

Behind the 808 & 909: Roland Factory Visit

Around the web by Open Journal

Electronic music journal Resident Advisor gets a rare invitation to visit the headquarters of Japanese music company Roland, meeting some of the developers and sound engineers behind the company’s 808 and 909 drum machines – instruments that spawned their own genres and indelibly shaped the sound of electronic-based music for decades to come. Read it here: Resident Advisor

The Quotable David Carr

The Quotable David Carr

Around the web by Matthew

New York Times columnist and journalist David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation, died in New York on Feb. 12, 2015. He was 58. Often more quotable than the personalities he wrote about, Carr’s plainspoken style was sometimes blunt, and always searingly honest. As part […]

Billionaires at Burning Man

Billionaires at Burning Man

Around the web by Open Journal

There’s a new symbolic fight over tech money, class, and privilege: the influx of billionaires to the commerce-free utopia that is Burning Man. Building private communities with paid wait staff and VIP areas, Can the 1% ruin what it’s all about for the 99% at Back Rock City? Source: Bloomberg