BLDGBLOG: Architectural conjecture—Urban speculation—Landscape futures

This blog is entertaining and informative. One entry describes a brand of tiles employing patterns based on highway interchange designs. You could have your bathroom walls look like a road interchange in Barcelona or Bogata.

Another entry describes a vertical cemetery in Santos, Brazil, which looks like a skyscraper from a science fiction film.

Other entries speak about urban problems, like China’s “cancer villages”, whose inhabitants are becoming victims of extensive water and air pollution. There was a reference to “Chinese Death Vans”, mobile execution-by-injection clinics that serve small villages unable to afford to send criminals to major cities for execution by firing squad. Apparently this system makes the harvesting of organs more efficient too.

It’s a keeper: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/