News
Please join Archinect for drinks and socializing next Friday, April 29th, in New York City, at the Samsung Experience space in the Time Warner Building, for a celebration of the launch of Archinect v3.0, and a very special announcement of an exciting new alliance formed byArchinect, Designer Pages, OpenBuildings and Otto.

Orhan Ayyüce gave us a sneak peak into Cal Poly Pomona's archives of Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Donald Wexler, Garrett Eckbo, Craig Ellwood and others. These archives contain never published before original drawings, photographs, blueprints, and stories. They were given to the College of Environmental Design and they are in care of Dr. Lauren Weiss Bricker.

Michael Burt, Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, has developed a proposal for a re-usable, floating venue to host Olympics events.
 

The LA Times attempts to explain the relative obscurity of L.A.'s landscape architects.
 

Winners have been announced at this year's ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition were announced on Bustler.

Ed Mazria's lectured on "Architecture on the Brink," at 6:30pm April 20th, at Cooper Union's Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street, New York City. Our friend Jacob Slevin talked with the sustainable architecture activist and founder of Architecture 2030, about changes he envisions for NYC and beyond.

sectionalhealing asks "anyone find the picture of the guy posing with the corbusier chaise lounge hilarious?"

The Miller House & Garden in Columbus, Indiana, is now open to the public.

Buzz from Brazil, reviews 104-year-old Oscar Niemeyer's latest project in Brasilia is the Torre Digital TV Tower. And we discuss it in the forum.

School Blogs
Chris at Bartlett visited the exhibition The Shape We're In at the Zabludowicz Collection in London. One of the projects titled Woolworth Tower was "a hypothetical proposal intended to raise, critique and mock the relentless process of surface regeneration and intended gentrification found across many cities today."

Scott at UCLA was invited by his research studio prof Jason Payne to the final review of his studio at “crosstown rival” SCI-Arc last week. The review apparently engendered quite a bit of dialoque amongsts the critics/reviewers. Scott relates that Slyvia Lavin "pronounced that Jason often works within a kind of “neonaturalistic primitivism” (which I think is a great phrase), which can sometimes verge onto the “edge of scary unibomber territory”, and that in the work of the SCI-Arc students, that edge is very clearly visible."

Matthew at University of Illinois Chicago tells us to buy the The How-To Issue of Fresh Meat the School of Architecture @ UIC's student run journal.

Andreas Viglakis, at Harvard GSD posts a video entitled Malls Across America which consists of images from 1989 shot in malls across America. Learn more over at the projects Kickstarter page.

Discussion Threads
We continue to welcome feedback/suggestions/bug reports on Archinect 3.0. and whataguy has a suggestion for 3.0 optimization, a thumbs down button.

Didn't Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas's ambitious project for the New Milan Trade Fair opened in 2005?

happyvirus is looking for information on using a color shotcrete for a facade? HotTuna is looking for an elastic curtain that is also stretchy and translucent.

accv is wondering " what's the difference between mixed-use and hybrids developments? "

With the recent announcement that Boston will be rolling out their new bike-sharing program in July, toasteroven wants to talk bikesharing.

Additionally
Check out, Failed Architecture which show-cases buildings and urban environments that have failed to stand the test of time and are currently neglected, abandoned or even vandalized or demolished, because of changing economic, social, political and/or physical circumstances. Initiated by Non-fiction, an Amsterdam-based office for cultural, technological and spatial innovation, we hope to save some of these ruins from oblivion. Via Bruce Sterling.