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The Capitol Columns
Episode 24
For more than a century, 24 massive sandstone columns stood along the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol, framing presidential inaugurations and helpin…
15 years, 4 months ago
You Are Listening To + Radio Net
Episode 23
youarelistening.to appeared online on March 6, 2011 and I was hooked instantly. The combination of the police scanner and ambient music is an intrigu…
15 years, 4 months ago
Free Speech Monument
Episode 22
In 1989, a group called the Berkeley Art Project decided to hold a national public art competition to create a monument that would commemorate the 25…
15 years, 5 months ago
BLDGBLOG: On Sound
Episode 21
Most sound design in architecture is centered around designing for silence. Buildings are trying to block out that constant stream noise from the str…
15 years, 5 months ago
Nikko Concrete Commando
Episode 20
In 2001, Delfin Vigil was walking the streets of San Francisco and ran across the name “Nikko” carved into the concrete sidewalk. After seeing Nikko …
15 years, 5 months ago
RJDJ Reactive Music
This week, the radio audience heard episode #10, but for you web and podcast listeners, I have a story I did about a year and a half ago, about the r…
15 years, 5 months ago
Liberation Squares plus NY Dick
Episode 19
In a recent piece from Urban Omnibus, Vishaan Chakrabarti (Professor at the Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia U…
15 years, 6 months ago
Check Cashing Stores
Episode 18
A few years ago, journalist Douglas McGray learned that the largest chain of check cashing stores in Southern California, Nix Check Cashing, was bein…
15 years, 6 months ago
Concrete Furniture
Episode 17
The New City Hall, designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, was the first modern, concrete, civic building in Toronto. When it opened in 1965, it …
15 years, 6 months ago
A Designed Language
Episode 16
The idea is simple and quite beautiful: if we all shared a second, politically neutral language, people of all different nations and cultures could c…
15 years, 7 months ago