The Death of Battersea Power Station in London seen by Bradley Garrett

I stopped by Battersea Power Station this afternoon after the developers had finally begun to chip at the chimneys. On the side of the building, there was some new signage promising, as property owners are prone to do, that the future architectural simulation and simulacra envisioned on this choice riverfront real estate will retain an essence of place. Architectural homicide under the scalpel of cosmetic improvement almost always follows these sorts of proclamations.

The Middle East’s first all-women motor racing team has come together in Palestine.

Erich Muehsam was born in Berlin on April 6, 1878. While his brother Hans became a physician and his sister Charlotte married Leo Landau, a lawyer, Erich chose a different path and became an anarchist author, poet, and publisher.

The 8th Berlin Biennial is dealing with the historical narrations, places do have, and with the individual choises people do for building up their own identity. Curator Juan A. Gaitán choıse locations all over Berlin to integrate a historical frame, that isn’t limiting anybody but has the purpose to widen the look for Berlin and it’s historical past.

This is one of the weird things you can find in Bangkok: an abandoned shopping mall that has been closed for around 20 years. The basement is flooded and full of exotic fish. Where else in the world could you find something like this?

Nice Store Windows Collected by Achim Frenz, Museum für komische Kunst, Frankfurt