Montreal: Pigeons Everywhere

Phillips Square, Montreal, 1960s

Dominion Square, Montreal, Québec, Canada, ca. 1950. From CSTMC/CN Collection.  

Winners of the Animal Architecture Awards

Bat Cloud is a project bringing awareness and public visibility to bats and their critical role in our ecosystem. Installed in Tifft Nature Preserve, a park-like wooded setting developed on a former landfill in the industrial zone of Buffalo New York, BAT CLOUD is a hanging canopy of vessels that is designed and constructed to support bat habitation. From afar, the piece appears like a shimmering cloud, hovering in the trees. Closer up, viewers from below would be able to see plants hanging from each vessel. At dusk, onlookers can catch sight of bats emerging from the habitation vessels.

For more: http://www.animalarchitecture.org/urban-animal-award-winners/

Presidential Summer Pants

Lyndon Johnson ordering custom-made Joe Haggar Jr. pants (because they provide more room in "the crotch, down where your nuts hang") from the White House in 1964 (right before going to a funeral):