Olympics : Interactive

The New York Times has posted a wonderful interactive map of Beijing Olympics 2008. For all of us who may be riveted by the event this summer, here is a way to get a larger sense of the space in which the events are taking place. If you click on the "New Architecture" option, you can hear Nicolai Ousoussoff, the NYT architecture critic, provide insights into various structures, along with an image slide show. Very nice.

We have to say, of all the daily newspapers, it seems to us that the NYT has been the most successful in using its online media in a very graphically sophisticated and fulsome manner. Yum.

How many architect interns does it take to...

...build a scale model of Shanghai in the year 2020?

NeatoRama provides some photos and some insight into this 1,000sf, gargantuan project. Even if we were to disregard the Beijing Olympic 2008 marvels, the Chinese seem to revolutionize the architectural world in new ways everyday.