Canopy Walk Opens May 1st

Atlanta Botanical Garden

Beginning in May, Garden visitors may tour one of the city's last remaining urban forests ­ from 40 feet in the air ­ when the long-awaited Canopy Walk opens, lending a bird's-eye view to the beauty of a woodland below.
http://atlantabotanicalgarden.org/site/involvement/canopy_walk

Legacy of Shame

Signs reading “white” and “colored” appear once more outside separate waiting rooms in a century-old train depot in Orange, VA.
The divided waiting rooms are accompanied by a plaque explaining the history of the depot and of civil rights in America. http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4387

peter root: ephemicropolis

Artist Peter Root has sent designboom a look at his latest work ‘ephemicropolis’, a metropolis made

completely from stacks of metal staples. http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/9947/peter-root-ephemicropolis.html

ShowCase: Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art

Igor Franić of studio za arhitekturu (SZA) took into consideration the strongly stressed orthogonal matrix of Novi Zagreb, from where he continued to develop the project. http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=97851_0_23_0_M

Damaged Picasso Returns to the Met After Repair

by Carol Vogel

“The Actor,” left, by Picasso, is back on display in a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after having a rip repaired. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/arts/design/21picasso.html?ref=arts

UK Prepares to Use Human Poop to Power Homes

by Brit Liggett
Scientists in the UK are looking into creating a closed loop system using human waste that would provide electricity to the grid. http://inhabitat.com/2010/04/19/uk-prepares-to-use-human-poop-to-power-homes/

A Funky Museum Opening

BY BARRY SAUNDERS for newsobserver.com

"The Thinker" didn't get much thinking done Saturday night, not with hundreds of people milling around drinking, eating and staring at him.

Read more at the link below:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/04/20/445571/a-funky-museum-opening.html#storylink=addthis