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Die Hard asks naive but powerful questions: If you have to get from A to B —that is, from the 31st floor to the lobby, or from the 26th floor to the roof—why not blast, carve, shoot, lockpick, and climb your way there, hitchhiking rides atop elevator cars and meandering through the labyrinthine, previously unexposed back-corridors of the built envi... See more
Geoff Manaugh • Nakatomi Space
Over the course of the film, McClane blows up whole sections of the building; he stops elevators between floors; and he otherwise explores the internal spaces of Nakatomi Plaza in acts of virtuoso navigation that were neither imagined nor physically planned for by the architects.
His is an infrastructure of nearly uninhibited movement within the ma... See more
His is an infrastructure of nearly uninhibited movement within the ma... See more
Geoff Manaugh • Nakatomi Space
A short-lived capital stock will manifest in accelerated depreciation and a fragile capital structure will incur an undue interest charge.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
To design the building, the developer hires an architect, who will lead the design effort and manage the design team (which includes specialties like structural engineers, mechanical engineers, and so on). The architect is the developer’s agent, and is duty-bound by professional ethics to act in their interest.
Which is not to say that the architect... See more
Which is not to say that the architect... See more
Brian Potter • Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
human tastemakers,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

decentralized sameness,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
logic of experience embodied in the space of places.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Tourism driven by digital platforms causes a literal flattening, in the physical damage of so many feet and vehicle wheels, as well as a metaphorical flattening.