Over the years, Barbie has been an astronaut, a nurse, the president of the United States and a police officer, among more than 120 careers. But she’s never been an architect, and a University at Buffalo architecture professor wants to change that. Read...

Only a month after it's hyped opening, the Burj Khalifa (formerly known as the Burj Dubai), has been shut off from the public, apparently due to electrical problems. Read...

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In a town in Upper Bavaria they do it differently. There as Orhan points us to Even the minaret is admired as a valuable addition to the cityscape. Read and Related Read...

Fullscale projection of a virtual building on the real version of itself. The building flies around and changes shapes. The building in this case is the icelandic parliament. By architect Andrew Burgess. *Thing is parliament in icelandic. Read...

Philip Johnson's Glass House just released tour tickets for the 2010 season which runs from May 1 to November 30, including the new night time Twilight Tours with lighting designed by Richard Kelly. More Read...

A recent editorial looks into the dynamics of the 21st century's first large scale cross religious conflict, Islam in Europe, a four way complexity of divided Germans and divided Moslems. Qantara.
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Alen Jasarevic, architect of a mosque built in Upper Bavaria writes about his work, "Even the Minarette Is Admired."
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Latvia has sold an entire town once used by the Soviet military as a base. Read...

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Studio Gang Wins Second Prize at Taipei Pop Music Center Competition
The Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition recently announced the final winners of Stage Two with the first prize going to Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture PC, second prize to Studio Gang Architects, and a third prize for Office dA...

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Wins Tucker Design Award For Smithsonian’s Kogod Courtyard
The Building Stone Institute announced yesterday that the prestigious Tucker Design Award was awarded to the Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture. The award-winning Courtyard was designed by landscape architects Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, within an architectural renovation by Foster + Partners architects...

A New Library for Montreal’s Saint-Laurent Borough
The winner of the Quebec-wide architectural competition for the new library in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent Borough was announced. The chosen project was submitted by the team composed of Cardinal Hardy/Labonté Marcil/Éric Pelletier Architectes en consortium/SDK et associés inc./Leroux Beaudoin Hurens et associés inc...

Point Supreme Architects with Alexandros Gerousis Win EUROPAN 10 for Trondheim, Norway
Last week, Bustler already featured two winners of three Norwegian sites for the EUROPAN 2010 contest: Vardø and Oslo. The proposal ‘Proscenium’ by Greek studio Point Supreme Architects, in collaboration with Alex Gerousis, is the winner of the third Norwegian EUROPAN challenge, Trondheim...

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"A British farmer who secretly built a castle and hid it behind haystacks to avoid trouble from local planning authorities was ordered by a court Wednesday to demolish it." Read...

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Madonna is giving back to the country that gave her David, her son, in a big way by building an eco-friendly academy for girls in Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe. Read...

Marin County to provide power, oust PG&E monopoly Read...

This upcoming week brings events in London, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Bangkok, Rotterdam, Philadelphia, West Hollywood, Long Beach, Madrid & Colombo.

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Architect Hugh Hardy's design for an addition to the Vivian Beaumont Theater which overlooks Lincoln Center, features a new black box theater that will be perched on the roof. Read...

Fresh blood dripping from ceiling into the 'Plans Architectural Design Shop' leads to a murder in England. That's right! Read...

The L.A. Bike Working Group is developing an alternative bike plan. They are starting with a network of long-distance bike routes they are comparing to a freeway system for cyclists. LA Times Read...

A book which challenges traditional views about the nature and future of Latin American architecture has been written by Cambridge architect and lecturer Felipe Hernández. Read...

A college education may not be worth as much as you think. Read...

3D city engine based on Conway's Game of Life and developed in Processing. Read...

London-based Steven Chilton of Marks Barfield Architects, the designers of the London Eye, has sent us fascinating images of Villa Hush Hush, an innovative high end residence they are currently developing. The project has been privately commissioned and currently has planning permission.

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As many of us may know, it is World Cancer Day tomorrow, February 4, and the link between cancer and housing is not a well-kept secret anymore.

The ARCHIVE Institute works squarely at the intersection of housing and health, and aims to tackle and reduce rates of diseases such as cancer, by increasing awareness of the ways in which poor housing adversely affects health. Research has demonstrated an inextricable link between cancer and standards of housing.
The following article discusses radon, a natural radioactive gas found in homes identified to be the number one cause of lung cancer in non-smokers, and also the association between stomach cancer and poor living conditions. Poor housing environments contribute to ill health in many ways, through poor amenities, shared facilities and overcrowding, inadequate heating or energy inefficiency.

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For the month of February, the Inc. magazine editorial staff is going to run an experiment on the virtual workplace with all editors working from home.

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Eduardo Catalano, born in Buenos Aires, designed the iconic and sadly demolished Raleigh (Catalano) House (1954-2001) one of the very few houses Frank Lloyd Wright ever commented on, "Raleigh House" AKA the Catalano House to say "It is refreshing to see that the shelter, which is the most important element in domestic architecture, has been so imaginatively and skillfully treated as in the house by Eduardo Catalano" Read...

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Solar engineers have long sought to develop an energy-generating glazing that is as capable of producing power as it is easy on the eyes. The feat may just have been accomplished by The Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE), who have developed a see-through concentrating solar system that can be affixed to windows and actually magnifies the available sunlight inside. Read...