Will Blogger let me put Ø in my title?

Architecture in authoritarian and Eastern regimes. The 105 Builiding in Pyongyang, North Korea is damn-near spooky. If it's not torn out of Orwell's 1984 then it's definately Blade Runner -esque. [link]. Second, Social Design Notes has an informative post about Rem Koolhaas and the Chinese TV project [link].

It's nice to see the Washington Post deal with zoning [link].

Saw a story about Found on Fox News at 10 [at ten it's news at eleven it's history]. Interesting enough to merit a [link].

"Labor and Materials is Iraq's answer to "Extreme Home Makeover" and the country's first reality TV show." Forget prisoner abuse, this is torture on a far larger scale. "On the way back to the station, the crew stops to look at a house whose roof was ripped off. As they film it, a blast rips through the air, and smoke billows from a nearby mosque. The next day, "Labor and Materials" shows footage of the blast, which killed a young boy, as well as of Kadhim's house." Oh, wait. No, I suppose the killing and such is still going on [link].