When I read the article by Tracey Taylor at SFgate.com, I felt the need to share it with our readers.

Photographer Kevin Bauman has been capturing pictures of Detroit's neglected homes since the 1990s. He watched the demographics of the city change, as its population dwindled from close to 2 million citizens, to most likely less than 800,000.

As he explains : « The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence. »

www.graduatedegree.org produced this interesting web page:  100 Amazing Flickr Collections for Architecture Buffs

As explained on their web site: "Flickr is a great resource for finding photos and learning about what’s in our world. Users from around the world share their images-and lots of them are great for architectural research and inspiration. Now you don’t need to travel across the world to experience some of the world’s greatest architectural treasures because here you’ll find 100 excellent collections of buildings, details, and more."

We noticed that some of these photographs were pure delight, and wanted to share them with our readers.

0300TV produced this movie featuring words and works by Ai Weiwei (FAKE Design, Beijing), Jiang Jun (Urban China Magazine), Wang Shu (Amateur Architecture Studio, Hangzhou), Yu Kongjian (Turenscape, Beijing) and Ma Qingyun (SPAMAPS, Shanghai).

Having seen the Poll question that we are currently posing about the pertinence of re-utilizing shipping containers in construction, Ben Leffler pointed us to an article that was published on their Blog, called Ship Happens, that addresses the issue.

The Article, entitled Living Inside the Box: Creative Eco-Friendly Design Using Shipping Container , talks about the environmental impact the shipping contaners are having and displays creative samples of projects recycling those enclosures and using them as high-end condos, office buildings, low-income housing, or even relief shelters.