[Image: The brick-arched entryway to a "mysterious Chinese tunnel" in the Pacific Northwest (via)].72 years ago, a man named William Zimmerman sat down to tell a story about "mysterious Chinese tunnels" to the U.S. government. That interview was cond...

Back in March, Pruned posted a short video of a Japanese earthquake van – a video which I'll embed here for ease of reference:So if you don't know what, say, a 9.0 earthquake really feels like – and, thus, what you'd need to do to stay...

Some of the coolest photographs I've seen recently are these long exposure shots of crowds in St. Petersburg, Russia. They were taken by Alexey Titarenko for a project called "City of Shadows."

[Image: The front and back covers of Support Structures]. The last book launch I want to mention today—it seems like the only things going on these days are launches!—is for a fantastic-looking book called Support Structures by Céline Condorelli....

It is clearly the season for book launch events! Tomorrow, Saturday, November 21, at the Columbus Circle Borders in Manhattan, Jeff VanderMeer will be reading from his new book Finch—and then engaging in a conversation about fiction and the city with...

Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Geographies will be kicking off its second issue, "Landscapes of Energy," with a launch party and panel discussion. The new issue includes many contributors, ranging from Kazys Varnelis and Mirko Zardini to the...

Photographer Richard Mosse, interviewed here on BLDGBLOG earlier this year, has a show opening up tonight in New York City: The Fall.. For the past year, Mosse has been traveling the world on a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, documenting distant sites...

[Image: Photo by Bas Princen, from Five Cities Portfolio]. Photographer Bas Princen has a new book out, Five Cities Portfolio: Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, coinciding with a conference to be held this Friday, November 20, at the Netherlands...