First a new feature by Carly Erin O'Neil highlighting the House of Sweden by Wingardh Architects. The House of Sweden is the flagship of Swedish public diplomacy in the United States.
First a new feature by Carly Erin O'Neil highlighting the House of Sweden by Wingardh Architects. The House of Sweden is the flagship of Swedish public diplomacy in the United States.

News
Following up last weeks great piece on the new Las Vegas City Center project Christopher Hawthorn summarizes the last decade of architecture. "But the notion that architects had suddenly acquired more power than ever before, as opposed to more visibility, opportunity or cachet, turned out to be hollow."

Diller Scofidio & Renfro, propose a different kind of temporary Bubble for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.
The last word? There is just No Negotiating With Nature.
A leak?
Perhaps predictably I like the "Thread It" proposal the best.

Discussion Threads
An inspiring post from WonderK over at Thread Central.
"My suggestions for you to explore energy modeling programs are not to imply that you should take up a totally different set of interests, or become someone you're not; these suggestions are borne out of a very real concern that unless architects start to respond to this situation, we are going to be left out of the process, because there are plenty of people waiting to capitalize on the "greening" of the building industry, in every which way possible.".

Liberty Bell is trying to get the threads talking. more about architecture.
I recently recieved one of these emails too.
Happy 102nd birthday , Oscar Niemeyer!!!

School Blogs
Micah at Kent State talks Dreamscapes. While Nick Sowers aka soundscrapers, announces his first published piece entitled; Military Estates: exact edges" in the current issue of on site #22. Mark at Cooper Union shares some photos and his verdict on the new Morphosis building "For a building all about control the architecture seems like a clear response to the subject matter of the engineer.".

Errata
Dig this project within the Mumbai Race Course by Serie Architects.
The Llano Del Rio working group’s “Map of An Other LA” is now available free.
For more on the project read Arthur Magazine and Indy Media.