Words Dept.

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Richard Herring.com: Warming up – Herring responds to out-of-context quotes in Guardian piece. “To have those contentious lines quoted out of context, with absolutely no explanation of what else takes place can have no other effect than to make the casual (and even the quite careful) reader assume that [...]

I went to see the Le Corbusier exhibition in Liverpool yesterday. It was pretty good, although I found the layout a bit confusing – I prefer a chronological approach rather than a thematic one if it’s not a subject I’m especially familiar with. I’d also have liked a bit more of a focus on the [...]

World Architecture News claims its servers have been attacked by the Chinese government after “ruffling some feathers” over its reports on Beijing. The London-based news service this week ran a comment piece by editor Michael Hammond, which suggested the Chinese are “deliberately courting controversy” by hiring Frankfurt-based AS&P, to redesign part of Beijing. The practice [...]

This is the office of Three Rings Design, a games company in San Francisco. Surely all offices should look like this. It contains “an attacking octopus couch, a secret lounge hidden behind a bookcase, captain’s quarters and a steampunk bike rack”. I work from home and, needless to say, my back bedroom contains all these [...]