Scientist have begun to understand that urban transportation and infrastructure networks grow like biological systems.NewScientistTech Key aspects of the finding include; They found that cities' road patterns have a lot in common mathematically, as well as looking similar to the eye. 'Not just... View full entry

Monica Ponce de Leon, partner of Office dA, has been appointed Dean at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Design. Read the press release here. Thanks to Christian for the tip. View full entry

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, cramped apartments, and studios across the world—this is... View full entry

Sounds like some very good projects were selected for 2008-2009. Congratulations! Matthew Hural's project reeks of typical ARCH 101 at UVA. Wonder how many conversations he had with Waldman on that... Bustler View full entry

darmstadt region: ...commendation: Doehler GroupDierks Blume Nasedy Architekten Haus Schützliquid architekten Hessisches Staatstheater DarmstadtLederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oeirecognition: AtelierturmFlorian Krieger und liquid architekten Ateliers RößlerstraßeSchauer +... View full entry

showing favoritism, the southwark council rushed through the preliminary application for the $425,000,000 tate modern addition which would have allowed the project to open before the 2012 olympics. h&dem are in the process of changing the facade from glass to brick. as the original proposal... View full entry

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Don’t like the french? Sick of hearing mickey en francais? Then pack the bags and grab the kids… we’re going to Disney-baghdad! In times of crisis, leave it to American “entrepeneurs” to drop $500,000,000.00 on a Disneyland-style themepark. “Because Iraqi kids... View full entry

I stumbled upon a Sep 2006 interview with the photographer Frederic Chaubin in Ping Magazine. The photos he takes in countries like Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Georgia, reveal an almost sci-fi world. PingMag View full entry

A Gehry mall is biting the dust after 27 years of chainlink megagraphic glory overlooking the end of the 10 freeway in Santa Monica. Just so the titanium jaded kids don't forget, FOG spent the first 25 years of his career doing pedestrian projects like this mall. But the glory of this project... View full entry

Ubu has new materials online from Ant Farm's Dirty Dishes (pt1&2) to Hiroshi Teshigahara's Gaudi Film to Robert Smithson's Hotel Palenque to Marcel Duchamp and Frank Lloyd Wright meeting at the Western Round Table on Modern Art... related View full entry

Developers and officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are enlisting renowned museums, including the Louvre and the Guggenheim, as well as top architects such as Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel, to build cultural facilities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. But citing what it describes as the UAE’s... View full entry

A public toilet at a car park in Kent is among eight buildings in the South East shortlisted for a prestigious architecture award. BBC View full entry

Lebbeus Woods publishes oa's 'New Cannibalist Manifesto of the Ordinary' at the end of his DUMB BOXES essay. View full entry

Wednesday April 30th, 2008 - 7:00 doors open//8:20 presentations start Element @ Essex & Houston $7 in advance//$9 at the doorFull event detailsMore architecture/design events View full entry