Some amazing photos in this article about Hong Kong's massive rain tunnel system edition.cnn.com/style/article/… h/t The Overhead Wire

I had lunch in the parking garage—and it was actually pretty great. curbed.com/2020/7/28/2134…

"the 460 tons of lead that burned that night" nytimes.com/2020/07/29/wor…

"A core from a sarsen stone was removed by 1958, and kept by an excavations employee, who asked that it be returned to the monument on the eve of his 90th birthday." edition.cnn.com/style/article/…

Favorite detail from this piece: sometimes they just make stuff up. "You’ll get a section of building work or brickwork that’s not actually that interesting. So we’ll stick a window in there and make it a little bit more interesting."

"What we have done is just be about the business of getting busy for our community, and saying if no one else is going to advocate for our community, we are." fastcompany.com/90540241/meet-…

"The most interesting signage tends to be on the second floors." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Over the past eight years, Wolfgang Kaleck has led his nonprofit organization, the ECCHR, on a painstaking legal mission to hold the Assad regime responsible for its crimes. From Nate Berg: newrepublic.com/article/160515…

Here's my profile of human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck and the years-long effort to build a case against members of the Assad regime

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"Accessibility has always had roots in industrial capitalism, and Microsoft is not immune to this reality." fastcompany.com/90824751/micro…

As we enjoy this blissful week of “what day is it?” here are some of Co.Design’s favorite reads of the year:

"A two-foot-by-four-foot board that we make has like 50,000 parts in it. To get them to all work in concert in way that's reliable and works for years to come was a huge challenge." fastcompany.com/90839900/why-g…

As 1-year anniversaries go, this is a grim one, but the war in Ukraine is very much still ongoing. So my Fast Company colleagues and I spent the last few months talking to Ukrainian designers, architects + urban planners about how they are rebuilding and how they are surviving…

A year after the invasion of Ukraine, Co.Design connected with citizens inside the country, who despite all odds and constant threat, continue to work. Nate Berg, Elissaveta M. Brandon, and Liz Stinson have been publishing their stories all week, and you don't want to miss them (🧵):

Meet the teenage mall advisers: "We're coming to this project essentially with a blank slate and putting what teenagers like us would want." fastcompany.com/90857948/can-t…

"I think 10-plus years from now people are going to say, 'I could have gotten this all-time deal on prime real estate.'" fastcompany.com/90866323/too-b…