With a new building and a renovation at two New York City colleges, are we experiencing the creation of a new architecture typology? New dramatic gestures of fracture expose the meaty insides of spaces for learning in ways that would be meaningless outside the urban context.

This seems to acknowledge the tacit failure of web design, but the folks at arc90 have developed the Readability bookmarklet to strip all other information from web pages to make reading easier. (via Lifehacker)