This week I saw it reported that in this decade alone, the Seattle area is set to deliver more new rental apartments than it did in the prior 50 years combined. And as a result, the sentiment is that new housing supply is finally starting… Read More
Snowboarding season is starting late for me this year. But that doesn’t mean it will be any less epic. So far this season Jackson Hole has had 221″ of snow. This year I’m introducing a GoPro gimbal stabilizer into the mix. Here is a good example… Read More
Amazon released its shortlist of HQ2 cities this morning. Below are the 20 metropolitan areas. They were selected from 238 bids, so this shortlist represents 8.4% of the original pool. Atlanta, GA Austin, TX Boston, MA Chicago, IL Columbus, OH Dallas, TX Denver, CO Indianapolis,… Read More
Steven Johnson has a terrific piece in New York Times Magazine called: Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble. Here is a snippet: The only blockchain project that has crossed over into mainstream recognition so far is Bitcoin, which is in the middle of a speculative bubble that… Read More
I really like the post that Seth Godin wrote on his blog today called: The four elements of entrepreneurship. He defines entrepreneurs through their actions and behaviors. In his view, this is what they do: 1. They make decisions. 2. They invest in activities and assets… Read More
Architect Rem Koolhaas recently unveiled a backpack that he designed for Prada’s autumn winter 2018 menswear collection. It looks like this: It’s more of a frontpack. Actually, maybe the right name is chestpack. What stood out for me, though – perhaps more than its frontality… Read More
City Observatory tracks something that they call “The Young and Restless.” It refers to the segment of the US population that is between 25-34 years old and has a bachelor’s degree or higher. We know that people in this age bracket tend to be relatively mobile… Read More
This morning I came across this drone photo of Hong Kong by @vnthota: I immediately thought it was a good example of the typical Hong Kong tower plan that I have been writing about on this blog. You can see the cruciform plan, the light/air cutouts,… Read More
New York Magazine is running a weekly series right now that tells the stories behind key moments in the city’s cultural history. This week’s is about how the Time Warner Center came to be. Like most real estate projects, it took an enormous amount of… Read More
French photographer and graphic designer François Prost has a new photo series out that I thought I would share with you today. It’s called “Paris Syndrome” and I discovered it via CityLab. What the series does is visually compare Paris to a housing estate in Hangzhou,… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 