Hrag Vartanian

The CPH experiments are five ambitious housing projects in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.
Home of LEGO, pre-fab architecture and a rich modernist tradition, Denmark seems to be producing some of the best mass housing projects….it puts New York housing schemes to shame.
The one I snapped gives every pueblo apartment a terrace (a la Moshe Safdie’s Habitat) [...]

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I found this photo today on Flickr and it touched me since evictions are a fact of life in Bushwick (and environs) today.The NY Times’ City Blog has an interesting discussion about the fact that
Bushwick, once rejected by real estate agents and hipsters, has become the new currency of cool…and why do people hate hipsters? [...]

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My Top 10:

What some people in 1951 thought were the essential parts of an ideal city
Museum’s discover the blogosphere
East Village’s iconic mosaic man sets sail for Brooklyn
Is this map (United States of Islam) what Bush stares at when he goes crazy about “them” wanting to get “us”?
Is Canada a prison?
Have mainstream journalists become irrelevant? {via [...]

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I came across these glorious images of some Hindu festival on Flickr today and couldn’t wait to share them. There are no descriptions and I even emailed the photographer inquiring as to what the hell these things were but I have yet to hear back.
They are marvelously grand and saturated with color. Some of the [...]

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French intellectual heavyweight Bernard-Henri Lévy is a vocal supporter of human rights and this year he has been passionately supporting legislation that will recognize the Armenian Genocide and condemn historical revisionism.
This video is from a Paris meeting where in front of a wide-range of French luminaries and organizations he spoke about the need to prevent [...]

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