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BLDGBLOG
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BLDGBLOG is a personal blog at bldgblog.blogspot.com about design and culture. Since 2009, 56 different Hacker News readers have linked it 95 times, most often “Remnants of the Biosphere”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link BLDGBLOG for posts on architecture, cities and unusual built places, such as Chand Baori, underground New York, wave motors, and sandstone-forming microbes. Commenters cite it as a source.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- Called a "gold-mine" for this kind of material; one commenter says two of its articles may be interesting to read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
architectural conjecture :: urban speculation :: landscape futures
Most-linked posts?
- Remnants of the Biosphere3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-01-08
- Nakatomi Space3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-01-11
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-11-01
- Proposal: using bacteria to change sand into sandstone2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-04-20
- The Town That Creep Built2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-07
- Underwater archaeology + prehistoric remains + lost shipwrecks = midwestern mystery2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-01-05
- Glitches in Spacetime, Frozen into the Built Environment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-29
- Trap Rooms: Deliberate errors to catch copyright infringement2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-13
- /2012/11/chand-baori.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-12-12
- Touchscreen Landscapes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-21
What Hacker News says?
I've been transfixed with the idea of 'Digital Comparative Studies of Cities' (or some similar turn of phrase). With the advent of mapping projects (GoogleMaps, Openstreetmap, etc), environmental sensor networks (my startup's area), and cheaper LiDAR arrays (for point cloud mappings of buildings and terrain...now in CMOS form) - we'll be able to quantify the homogeny of surbanization, architectural 'themes', road un…
Comment linking /
on “Odd Things Happen When You Chop Up Cities and Stack Them Sideways”Submitted Nakatomi Space as a story · 153 points
HN discussionBLDGBLOG is a gold-mine for these kind of things. http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/
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on “New York Underground”Submitted The Town That Creep Built as a story · 130 points
HN discussionThere are a couple of articles you might find interesting, that build on some of the links between the film, the book, and the games: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/01/zone-cherno... http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/ghosts-of-future-borrow...
Comment linking /2010/05/ghosts-of-future-borrowing-architecture.html
on “Tarkovsky Films Free Online (2010)”Submitted Ghost Streets of Los Angeles as a story · 121 points
HN discussionJust found out that the Dark Knight (Batman) was shot at Chand Baori ( http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/chand-baori.html ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chand_Baori
Comment linking /2012/11/chand-baori.html
on “Ancient Indian Texts”Submitted The Permission We Already Have as a story · 71 points
HN discussionAll right, scepticism taken. Look at these images: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qzhiolzuxsw/UK0HEPH7x4I/AAAAAAAAH8... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a7UIHnAfmH0/UK0Ga-RmigI/AAAAAAAAH5... http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/chand-baori.html http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/chand-baori.html This is just an example. What do you think has higher probability of being used to build this? 1. Math and calculations or 2. Numero…
Comment linking /2012/11/chand-baori.html
on “Ancient Indian Texts”Submitted Trap Rooms: Deliberate errors to catch copyright infringement as a story · 64 points
HN discussionExciting work! Can you share more about your "special tree-planting method"? Have you read about the research into using microbes to transform the desert sand into a sandstone wall to span the Sahara Desert? http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/sandstone.html
Comment linking /2009/04/sandstone.html
on “The Great Green Wall of Africa”Submitted Tensioned Suspension – Sculptures Suspending Themselves as a story · 61 points
HN discussionA lot of wave and tidal motors were built along the California coast in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It's an interesting history. Cheap fossil power made them uneconomical, though. http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/wave-motors-of-californ... http://www.outsidelands.org/wave-tidal.php
Comment linking /2009/05/wave-motors-of-california.html
on “Salters Duck”Submitted Lost Highways: Old roads in Vermont as a story · 57 points
HN discussionUnderwater Stonehenge in Lake Michigan http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/stonehenge-beneath-wate...
Comment linking /2009/01/stonehenge-beneath-waters-of-lake.html
on “Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest”Submitted The Las Vegas "Death Ray" as a story · 53 points
HN discussionBlogspam. Original: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/remnants-of-biosphere.h...
Comment linking /2010/01/remnants-of-biosphere.html
on “Remnants of the Biosphere”Submitted One Million Years of Isolation as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSome errors could be deliberate to detect copyright infringement: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/trap-rooms.html
Comment linking /2010/10/trap-rooms.html
on “Memo To Ian Fleming’s Heirs”Submitted The Underground Wind Bulbs of Utah as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI do not agree with that, but that is my opinion. The reason for my opinion is that I find Reddit more and more political, mainstream (nitwits are more and more starting to come up there) and dumbing down (less links to interesting articles and websites, more links to stupid imgur pictures which are often used for SEO scams). When I came on there years ago it looked a bit like HN but more diverse where HN is mostly…
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on “What websites am I missing? ”Submitted Jets of seawater for radio antennae as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trees impregnated with gold might someday line city streets as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remnants of the Biosphere as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proposal: using bacteria to change sand into sandstone as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infrastructure as Processional Space as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interview with Nicholas de Monchaux on the Origin of the Spacesuit as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Terrestrial Sonar as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted A fictional catalog of possible products as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mercedes Benz Museum's ventilation system can form an artificial tornado as a story · 13 points
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