Cuboctaedro

Shop signs from the streets of the old center of Athens.

by John Cage

Just a photograph.

I just came back to Berlin from the Frankfurt Book Fair. It was very interesting although trying to see everything in three days left me quite exhausted. According to those who have been visiting for years attendance this year was quite low. I also saw much less new titles than I expected. It seems that [...]

The Lieb House designed by Robert Venturi and Denisse Scott Brown in 1967 is being moved to a new location. It was threatened with demolition when the land where it stood was sold. Some friends of the Venturis manage to buy it (for 1 dollar) and now they are moving it from New Jersey to Glen cove, New York to use it as a guest house.

Fwis (Chris Pasadero) has create a typeface based on the work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA. Although not the most legible typeface, it is quite interesting as an experiment and may even be used somewhere. You can download it for free (as EPS) here.
I gave it a try with the word Cuboctaedro and it came [...]

Recently I stumbled upon this exquisite project by Andrew Maynard and I could not resist posting it here. It is called CV08 – The Suburb Eating Robot and it is exactly what the title says, a robot that eats suburbs and leaves behind plants and animals.
The robot looks like it came out of a Masamune [...]

I have posted this text in the previous version of the site that was running on Joomla. It may be a little out of place here but it had received lots of visits so I suppose some people may find it useful.
In some cases creating a Joomla template can be quite a lot of work. [...]

Cuboctaedro is the Spanish name of Cuboctahedron. The Cuboctahedron is one of the 13 Archimedian solids or semi-regular convex polyhedra. The Archimedian solids are polyhedra with identical vertices and equal edges as the regular polyhedra (the Platonic solids) but in contrast to the latter, Archimedian solids are composed of more than one regular polygons. The [...]