BD Exclusive: The London 2012 Olympic stadium, designed by HOK Sport and Peter Cook, could be wrapped in a material made from the cannabis family of plants, it has emerged. For the first time, details of the stadium's layout, scale, appearance and the external materials to be used - which could... View full entry

A new book by photographer Richard Ross, Architecture of Authority, examines the way institutional buildings exert power over people.Wired View full entry

The best new buildings in Britain were announced today through the annual RIBA Regional Awards. Big winners in London included AHMM, which won the overall London Building of the Year for its Westminster Academy, and Allies & Morrison for the inaugural London Public Space Award for its... View full entry

French star architect Jean Nouvel was chosen Tuesday over four world-class peers to build a landmark skyscraper called, The Signal Tower, on the edge of Paris, set to rival the Eiffel Tower for domination of the city skyline. Bustler | AFP View full entry

“Thought Matters II”, a publication by the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, has just been released. Led by renowned architects, designers and UCLA professors Thom Mayne, Neil Denari, Greg Lynn and Dagmar Richter, Thought Matters II explores the work from the... View full entry

Ready to join the ranks of ADC Young Guns? Answer the call. ADC Young Guns exists to identify today's vanguard of young professionals across ALL creative disciplines. Those of you who've set your minds to making a name for yourself, raising new standards from within cubicles, conference rooms... View full entry

We are usually accustomed to petitions of saving a modernist building in our backyard. This time urgency is for a distant factory building designed by a Russian constructivist architect Ivan Nikolaev. | Petition and building info. | building pictures (in Turkish, via Arkitera) View full entry

Beijing’s Olympic architecture is spectacular, but what message does it send? New Yorker View full entry

The $19 million sale of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs has fallen through, officials confirmed today. The Desert Sun View full entry

with the help of a gps device and DHL, Erik Nordenankar has drawn a self portrait on the planet. View full entry

"when Daniel Libeskind was in San Francisco to kick off the final countdown to the June 8 opening of his Contemporary Jewish Museum, he had a confession: the restored 1907 power station that serves as the shell for the museum looks better than he expected." - sfgate View full entry

At the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, people are communicating directly with people on London's South Bank. The two 'Telectroscopes' are the creation of artist, Paul St George using a fibre optic link up between the two cities. BBC View full entry

Don't be fooled by the unmarked paint job on that helicopter! "It's a bird, it's a plane, no no it's an undercover chopper..." yahoo news View full entry

In the next two years, a dozen international airports will open gigantic new terminals, most of them big enough to accommodate the superjumbo Airbus A380 and tens of thousands of passengers a day. Wired Explores View full entry

Few and far between, these wonders are sprinkled around the globe in locations from Paris to Santa Monica. These buildings—green parking garages, innovative automobile dealerships, and futuristic gas stations—form a network of buildings fit for admiration as well as for parking your... View full entry