v-day: 1811 eastlake in the times again

Treehugger: Image credit Julie Keefe for The New York Times That is the great headline in the New York Times that says it all, the contradictions and problems of building small, green and modern. Paul McKean and Amy Donahue, both architects in Oregon, ran into them all with their modern, green roofed 925 SF ...more

Daycare Center to Be Expelled

Gothamist: The city is showing the door to a daycare facility that has called P.S. 122 its home for 26 years. The Children's Liberation Daycare Center , which serves 88 kids between the ages of 2 and 6, is going to court later this month to object to its ejection from the building, with no plan for the daycare ...more

The American University in Cairo v. Israel

Daniel Pipes Weblog: The American University in Cairo, founded in 1919, has gone through its share of vicissitudes as an American institution in Egypt. Based throughout its existence in a cramped campus in the heart of modern Cairo, at Tahrir Square, the university is currently building a much larger home in a desert ...more

Fab@Home

CR4: Hello CR4'ers, I'm interested in building one of the FAB@Home prototype machines and was wondering if anyone in the CR had built one or had any experience with them. From what I've seen in videos it appears to have decent resolution and the flexibility with materials is a distinct advantage o