Off the Record

Stumbling around the Architectural Record mega-site earlier today, I came across Off the Record, "the brand-new blog written by the staff of Architectural Record...where the magazine’s team of experienced, award-winning editors offer their insightful, informal, opinionated takes on architecture-related trends, conferences, exhibitions, projects and personalities."



Record is not the first architectural print magazine to venture into the realm of blogs. Architect Magazine has a few; Building Design has a bunch; Dwell has its daily. Regardless, there's something about Record's venture that seems to legitimize the efforts of other architectural blogs, or at least it further breaks down the boundary between the content of print magazines versus online blogs and vice versa. But with the ever expanding print and online content of magazines like Record, it's becoming a bit overwhelming; so many words, so little time.