Twenty-Nine Dollars, Eighteen Years Later
Melbourne's giant wheel opened in 2008 at $29 a ticket and shut 40 days later when the steel cracked. It reopens October 15, still $29.
Three Years of Shade
Christian Kerez built four sculptural car parks along Bahrain's UNESCO pearl-diving trail, designed to double as prayer halls and market squares. Two are already gone — to improve access to the heritage they were built to serve.
Crocs Sues Over a Shape It Never Designed
A $50 clog company just told a federal court that a $7 knockoff steals "significant investment" in a shape Crocs bought off a Canadian boat-shoe maker in 2002.
The Studio Trademarked a Tuesday
A random line about a random date, thrown away in a 2004 teen comedy, spent seven years as nobody's holiday before a fansite invented one — then Paramount filed the paperwork to own it, twice.
The Flats Built for Idealists, Recruiting for Moscow
Foster + Partners just put a Dezeen Awards shortlist plywood collection through the Isokon name. The building that name comes from spent the 1930s doubling as a Soviet recruiting station.
