Mysteries of the Built Environments Library

Mysteries of the Built Environments Library The Built Environments Library is in Gould Hall on the campus of the University of Washigton in Seattle. It is the home of many improbable treasures.

01/04/2016

A visit to the UW Botanic Gardens Joseph A. Witt Winter Garden refreshes the senses.

01/04/2016

Some 75% of the parts were 3D printed.

01/03/2016

Not many people have just come out and asked: Hey, is there anyone out there from the future?

01/03/2016

In the early 1970s, CIA built the Hughes Glomar Explorer to do the impossible: retrieve a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine. It almost worked. The ship's had a less exciting life since then, and its final chapter will soon come to a close.

01/01/2016

All Black Cats Are Not Alike, by writer-illustrator duo Amy Goldwasser and Peter Arkle, is a true feat in the age-old tradition of cat art.

12/31/2015

"For me, insanity would be like a vacation, or a belief in god; out of desperation, you let yourself fall into it."

12/31/2015

Water flowing through the city's pipes will generate electricity like a dam with none of the environmental consequences

12/31/2015

Migrating coastlines, urban parking sprawl, and rivers running through it: These maps made our days in 2015.

12/31/2015

Interviews with Josef Koudelka are rare, but he recently granted one to Christian Caujolle for Le Monde. We would like to thank Josef Koudelka,Christian Caujolle and Le Monde for agreeing to let us reprint it here. Koudelka preferred that we use an earlier version of the interview than the one which…

12/30/2015

What do you do if you’re living in the USSR in, say, 1957, and you’d like to press an illegal record of some banned rock and roll or jazz? Consumer tape recorders don’t exist, and in the USSR, vinyl is difficult to come by. How do you proceed? One thing you might do is press your contraband beats…

12/30/2015

It was a brutal year for concrete architecture.

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