Dominican authorities approved plans for container cities for Haiti housing relief.
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Dominican authorities approved plans for container cities for Haiti housing relief.

Christopher Hawthorne and Nicolai Ouroussoff on the new design for London US embassy.

In Dubai sharks are in danger.
A post on the tagging of Piano's Art Institute addition evolves into a discussion of the ethics and aesthetics of graffiti, tagging and art.
Dutch firm MVRDV unveiled images of the new headquarters of Schweizer Fernsehen in Zurich.

From Liebchen we get a NYT roundup featuring everything from Nicolai Ourousoff on Michael Maltzan's newest project to an article on wind turbine manufacturing.

Discussion Threads
.._. .._ _._. _._ responds to jk3hl's request for images/suggestions of sweet decorations and exhibits you see in trendy clothing stores these days (Urban Outfitters, Forever XXI, etc. ) that could be made by hand from everyday objects? with some great images on this thread.

The Design Activism conference in DC: Structures for Inclusion 10 will be in DC on March 27. For more info.
Emily Kemper alerts us to some legislation being hatched out in Washington as we speak called HOME STAR which leads into a discussion of the potential for green home renovations and of the role architects can play.

School Blogs


Nick Sower argues that to design or augment large-scale natural processes, one must analyze the political muscle it would to take to implement these projects in addition to dreaming up fanciful solutions. For part 2: of Glacier/Island/Storm Nick goes on to propose a Super/Typhoon/Wall, which harvests the power from the OTEC generators which would be housed in a mothball fleet ships. Read more here.

Lian at GSD reports from a conversation between Bernard Tschumi, Dean Mostafavi, and K. Michael Hays. Tschumi's message, in a nutshell, was to point out and problematize the current emphasis on the envelope.

While Jacob at University of Florida relates how he managed to make the visiting critic, Gregg Pasquarelli (SHoP), a bit angry with him.

Errata
As a result of the ongoing foreclosure crisis the Federal Housing Administration has become the owner of an increasing quantity of property around the country. In this memo Center for American Progress's Andrew Jakabovic proposes that FHA seize the opportunity to retrofit them as green rental housing.