Robots Retrieve Books in University of Chicago's New, Futuristic Library- If Google Books was a physical place instead of a web service, it would probably look a lot like the University of Chicago's new library.
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- Q&A: Fried Builds DIY Revolution One Resistor at a Time
- Maker-turned-entrepreneur Limor Fried talks shop with Wired magazine's Chris Anderson.
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- Pop-Culture Fan Crafts Iconic Lego Minifigures
- An Australian Lego craftsman hacks tiny action figures to create iconic images.
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- Find Venues Where New Media Art Is Popping Up
- New Media Art isn't so new anymore. Now the geekifed form of it is showing up in places where you wouldn't expect it -- like the Museum of Natural History in New York's Central Park. Use this art chart to see what's going on where in the new year.
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- Prosthetic Flippers Could Help Amputees Swim Again
- Design student Richard Stark teamed up with competitive amputee swimmers to create Neptune, an elegant, water-friendly prosthetic.
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- Even Modern Churches Are Built to Instill the Fear of God
- "With religious architecture, you always expect more meaning," says the co-editor of Closer to God, a book of 93 awe-inspiring examples of sacred spaces.
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- Take Shelter in a Human Habitrail
- Modern end-time bunkers are smart and stylish, running entirely off the grid for years and hiding far enough underground to be impervious to radiation.
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- Chat With Tadpoles in Rumpetroll, an HTML5 Chat Room
- Rumpetroll may be the most bizarre chat room ever created. You're transformed into a tadpole, and you can chat with other tadpoles as you swim around, thanks to some HTML5 magic.
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- Today Chastleton House -- 360º interactive panoramic
- Explore Chastleton House using our 360º interactive panoramic toolJim PowellGuardian Interactive team
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- Yesterday A journey along parallel lines
- When Ben Nicholson invited his Dutch mentor to live in London, it kicked off an intense artistic dialogue. Now a new exhibition explores their shared concerns and the way their paths divergedWhere were the paparazzi in September 1938? They should have been thick on the ground outside 60 Parkhill Road in Hampstead, for that month one of the 20th century's most audacious painters, Piet Mondrian, moved in. His arrival in England followed that of other leading avant garde artists, designers and arch... (more)
- Yesterday David Hockney auction to sell 150 artworks
- Hockney On Paper sale at Christie's to include etchings inspired by Hogarth, 1954 lithograph and work from his time in AmericaThe past few years have seen David Hockney experimenting with iPads and iPhones, but an auction at Christie's in London will focus on work made with the most basic of art materials. Hockney on Paper will see almost 150 works go under the hammer, from the artist's 1954 lithograph of a fish and chip shop owned by friends of his parents in Bradford, to photomontages of the 1... (more)
- Yesterday Constructive criticism
- Camelot comes to Cockfosters (maybe), Frank Gehry's Signature Theatre opens and the World Trade Centre site struggles with a design flaw"Camelot!""Camelot!""Camelot!""It's only a model."Monty Python and the Holy Grail might just have got it right. What other explanation can there be for images of a striking crystalline edifice that appeared online this week, purporting to be a new centre for all things Arthurian, built on the newly discovered ruins of the original Camelot -- in Cockfosters, nort... (more)
- Yesterday 'I choose people for their energy and aura'
- Video: French photographer Lise Sarfati talks to Sean O'Hagan about her latest exhibition, featuring images of two sisters, their mother and her sisterSean O'HaganCameron Robertson
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- Today Leonardo da Vinci: a late-night masterstroke | Observer editorial
- Today Jonathan Franzen is wrong: the digital age is making us smarter | Henry Porter
- Today 10: The long gallery, Chastleton House, Moreton-in-Marsh, 1607-1612
- As part of our series exploring Britain's architectural wonders, the Observer's architecture critic introduces a spectacular interactive 360-degree panoramic view of this classic example of the Jacobean long gallery• Explore the Chastleton House long gallery panoramic hereThe long gallery was the special contribution of Elizabethan and Jacobean society to architecture that deals with the passing of time: it was a place for walking in bad weather, for contemplating and showing off art and ances... (more)
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