August 24, 2005

DT Book Review Contest Prizes, Winners

I know what you've all been thinking: enough with the helmets and the random Euro architecture and get on with the prize drawing already! Well, you're right, and fine. But first, I want to give a big thanks to everyone...
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Architect: Send Your Diapers To Holland

Not sure where to classify this; I don't have a hardcore conceptual architecture category yet... Core77 reviews the recent Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, which includes a hypothetical proposal by Niall Kirkwood of Harvard's GSD for to help manage/develop a floodplain along...
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Sweet Modernist Daycare Center in Spain

OK, so maybe all Europeans don't leave their kids alone when they go out. Some, in the Spanish city of Manlleu [pronunciation: yo no se], take them to day care. Sweet, Mies van der Rohe modernism-inspired day care. The...
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Q. What Could Be Stupider Than Meet Mr. Mom?

Remember, there are 873 people lined up to be the king/queen of this country:Bring Your Husband to Heel Mon 22 Aug, 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm 30mins Brand new series where top dog trainer Annie Clayton helps the desperate housewives...
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Look Who's Copyediting

There are so many ways to go with that headline, though... "As it reads now, it's almost as if the movie is about 40 virgins who are still toddlers (not exactly unusual)." Press Wrestles With Grammatically Incorrect 'Virgin' [e&p, via...
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The ThudGuard Makes Me More Worried About The Kid's Inherited Brainpower

While the DOC Band of plagiocephalic fame looks awesome [AND serves a legitimate, even crucial purpose AND is decorateable] the ThudGuard helmet is none of these things, far from it. Invented by a Scottish mom "to help absorb and reduce...
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