Archinect announced Switzerland We Have a Problem, an open call for ideas to help Switzerland navigate its recent difficulties with minarets. We look forward to your proposals.
Archinect announced Switzerland We Have a Problem, an open call for ideas to help Switzerland navigate its recent difficulties with minarets. We look forward to your proposals.

Meanwhile one Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen's decision to ban minarets has already responded architecturally. He extended a chimney above his company's building into a minaret in protest.


Via Daily Dish

News
Archinect released new T-Shirts, "The Love Movements" series.

From Hawthorne reviews the new CityComplex Center in Las Vega
That architectural sensibility -- ambitious but not really adventurous, chasing bigness if not big ideas -- can be chalked up in part to Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut and Kuhn, the New York firm that developed CityCenter’s master plan, and Gensler, which served as executive architect and helped assemble the well-known but fairly conservative team of architects.

Green roofs are multi-functional.
MIT's Media Lab gets a new building by Fumihiko Maki.
Richard Wright wins the Turner Prize.

Discussion Threads
j'aime has a nice roundup of IDEO related videos and links here.

Now that's one really disillusioned Bartlett student.
Farshidajandro: splitzville!

School Blogs
Faysal at AA on a lecture by Thom Mayne.
John Tubles learns about an obscure japanese vernacular achitecture called mikan goyas which literally means orange house...