Dutch delight. (browser).

One site we looked at a year ago was Archined at www.archined.nl/endex.html. The architectural site of the Netherlands, so Archined claims, is five years old. It advertises jobs, has a market for architectural tools, such as old drawing boards, and lists magazines, competitions, lectures, criticism, news stories and ads. At the time of writing this, there was a fascinating piece about the late John Hejduk's Wall House 2 which was designed in the early '70s but never built. Well now it has been. Finished this September, it stands, not on its intended Connecticut, USA site but on the outskirts of Groningen, the Netherlands. What a cool and strange country. But the thing which knocks you out on the site is ArchiTV's first ever 17 minute broadcast of NOX's Lars Spuybroek talking about the design of the Vision Machine, an installation NOX designed last year for a Frederick Kiesler-inspired show in Nantes, France. The talk, in English, is available in both QuickTime and RealVideo versions for various modem speeds. Nice though it is, it could do with editing. Spuybroek starts out saying, 'What you need to know is that at this office we don't do any drawings', and then proceeds to draw diagrams on bits of paper. Still it's a killer site: you get the sense that it's run by people with boundless enthusiasm and competence. Even the ads are great. There are two big buts: you can't change the text size and some pathetic idiot has coded it so you can't backtrack to the site whence you came. I don't know why people do that.