culture

I ♥ Museum Shops

During a design meeting between the architects Herzog & de Meuron and the reps of Tate Modern, the designers of the new gallery found themselves cornered by a client who insisted on a more prominent position for their retail shop. The architects inevitably fought and lost. Today as head down to Level 1 of the [...]
China’s Protest Pen

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It seems the Chinese government has decided to create several ‘Protest Pens’ in order to allow people to demonstrate in far away public parks, during the upcoming Olympics.
But how far will these zone go to provide at least some sort of freedom…
…can they hold elections within the pens? …maybe announce China’s first freely [...]