Wait, he's FAMOUS?

Really?

February 19, 2014 at 6:41PM

You may want to add this to the list of questions you haven't posed today. From Topless Robot:

No.

Nevertheless, here you are:

SPACE i09 notes something you may have missed, and which apparently missed us:

It got lost.

URBAN DESIGN The movement to tear down urban freeways has a new cause celebere: the viaduct that rips through Syracuse. Some people want it demolished. Some people who use it do not. Atlantic Cities:

If I had unlimited billions at my disposal I'd cover up the 35W trench and put in a long park with housing, repairing the gash that cleaved the neighborhoods. Just because the freeways made many things possible doesn't mean it was an unalloyed good.

ARCHITORTURE Giz has a new list of beautiful buildings lost forever - and y "lost" I don't mean "misplaced, but probably around here somewhere." Lost as in deliberately demolished for reasons that seem appallingly short-sighted today. The Metropolitan, or the Guarantee Life, is on the list, as well as a municipal structure demolished for this:

This may be the perfect image of 60s & 70s municipal architecture: a pathetic little bench under a concrete shell.

LISTS City Pages has a list of 50 things to do in Minneapolis before you DIE. Such as:

Funny - and true! - but I don't think anyone on their deathbed will be scanning the list, hit #27, realize the ommision, and beg the nurse to lean close. "I need to tell you something. Listen closely."

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