This week we say goodbye to Tobias Wong and David Dillon.
News
This week we say goodbye to Tobias Wong and David Dillon.

The Architect's Newspaper interviews the imam behind the proposal for a Muslim community center a few blocks from the World Trade Center.

That is an insanely huge hole...

There is a new architecture school on the block. It is the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP). Find out more here.

Orhan shares a link to a beautiful research entry and blog post by dpr-barcelona; Psychogeographic Map of Mexico City, Understanding, participating and portraying Mexico City.

Discussion Threads
Over on TC toasteroven shares a link to a report of interest to those policy wonk types out there, titled When Investors Buy Up the Neighborhood: Strategies to Prevent Investor Ownership from Causing Neighborhood Decline

juan moment trys to start a discussion regarding the final design for Renzo Piano's expansion to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX which was quietly released last week.

jk3hl updates us on their studio project regarding Distinctly 'American' issues regarding food production.

AfRoThUnD312 is trying to collate a list of all the design research labs that are out there. They have AA's MIT, ARUP's and SOM's, go add some more.

School Blogs
Nick Sowers posts the video from John K Branner Traveling Fellowship lecture titled "Military Atmospheres" given in the main lecture hall at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.

Over at the Birmingham City University blog Abubakar Kumshe shares his thesis statement titled Productive Chaos which seeks to explore the possibilities of developing a Lagosian, market-based urbanism.