This week, we left the building. We waved a big goodbye to the assembled crowds, thanked the staff, and after one farewell stroll around the grounds stepped into the waiting helicopter—and flew away. We appreciate your support, and we’ll see you again. Click through for our exit music.

This week, it was all about a few strangers picked to live in a house and find out what happens when people stop being nice—and start getting real: featuring Barry Bergdoll, Andrew Blum, April Fools, and a Leprechaun. The doors are swinging closed even as we speak on the inaugural Edificial competitial competition, so send us your work! But first, take a chill pill with Friday’s architectural video. This week, it’s the greatest rapist chauvinist two-dimensional non-character architect of all time—Howard Roark.

Wow. That’s far out. Industry leader Wacom changes the game again with this graphics tablet, “an essential tool of the trade for graphic artists, photographers and designers.” It’s a classic piece of truly necessary and socially useful industrial design, and surely there can be nothing more earth-shatteringly important than that. That’s what we do here at Edificial: give you meaningful thoughts on meaningful design that really means something. Click through for more amazing images of this fabulous product featuring absolutely no random interjections of poetry whatsoever.

Wacom Intuos4 Next generation Pen Tablet for Digital Content Creators [Gizmag]

This week, we dialed M for Murder and asked to speak to William McDonough, Karim Rashid, magazines, disaster—and much, much more! Don’t forget: The Competitial is on, and you should have your submissials into us by Friday, repeat, Friday, not this Sunday as previously announced. It’s still not much time, so get cracking. But now it’s time to take it all home Friday-style with our weekly dose of mindless entertainment. This week: What’s short, stocky, and architectural? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)

This week, we put on our man pants and did the man dance with Philippe Starck, Peter Smithson, Graydon Carter, and Tony Danza. We learned the true meaning of Christmas—but more importantly we learned the meaning of our inaugural Edificial competition, “All the Lonely Architects”. Oops! There goes your next two weekends. By way of consolation, we present your Friday video: this week, a cheery segment on landmines sent our way by edifavorite MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli. Next week, we’ll show off these UNICEF stickers, just to make it a trend.

This week, we enjoyed Pink Floyd, pondered breakups, grudgingly joined the Myface, and marveled as a flurry of replacements stepped in. It’s so lonely without Ian today, though, that there’s only one thing that’ll remotely begin to cheer us up. And so, we leave you, this sad and desolate Friday, with a glimmer of laughter. Behold Mister Glasses: Episode 3.

This week, we took lance in hand and galloped after artists, interns, icons , and Ada. But now it’s Friday and we must needs hie hither to yon Grand Concourse, an event for the which we will furnish details Monday; in parting, we leave you as always with a video. This one is in Spanish but its message—of hope, of change, of architectural parody—is one we can all understand.