Motel 6 unveils a modern "Phoenix" prototype in N Texas. Dallas News “Look at what Target has done with fashion design in furniture,” says a rep from 6's consulting firm.Motel 6 rooms will get brighter hues, wood floors and flat-screen TVs. View full entry
Chinese architect selected for Dubai metro deal China's Architectural Engineering has been awarded a AED183m ($50m) contract to build external structures for the red line stations of the Dubai Metro. MEEDAmerican Institute of Architects' annual housing awards The LA Times gives us a slide... View full entry
Daniel Libeskind ’s boycott of work in China on ethical grounds has been slammed as a “publicity stunt” by leading Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat. “Ideologising architecture is wrong; you overestimate its power.” BD | previously | related View full entry
The University of California Regents Committee on Grounds and Buildings got its first peek at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects' preliminary conceptual design for a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) near the main western entrance to the UC Berkeley campus. UC Berkeley... View full entry
The result of a joint effort between construction and video game experts, You are the architect! allows users to familiarize themselves with the building industry and help them learn about the issues linked with a real building site; from drawing plans to managing workers, choosing building... View full entry
With his Make It Right project in New Orleans, Pitt may be on his way to becoming architecture’s most important patron. Is architecture up for the challenge? Metropolis | related Archinect feature: The Pink Project View full entry
The American Institute of Architects said its Architecture Billings Index for last month declined to 41.8, its lowest monthly reading since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Wall Street Journal View full entry
Jean Nouvel has designed a bottle for L'Homme by Yves Saint Laurent. Pics after the jump... View full entry
Arthur C Clarke, notable visionary, futurist, and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, among many other classics, has passed away at the age of 90. BBC | Wikipedia BioSir Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick during the filming of 2001 View full entry
Marlin takes us along on his latest installment of Archinect Travels, as he gasps for breath in the high altitudes of Colorado. In this episode Marlin gives IM Pei's Center for Atmospheric Research second stage after touring Boulder's Recycling Plant. Watch now, or download to your iPod for later View full entry
Paris-based Serero Architects have claimed victory in the open competition to redesign any of the Eiffel Tower's public reception and access areas. Bustler * Note: this is a temporary addition to the tower. View full entry
Last month the Chicago-based firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (currently hiring!) won a competition to design Masdar's headquarters in Abu Dhabi's Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste city fully powered by renewable energy, making this project the first mixed-use... View full entry
Innovative program to encourage more graduates to enter the architectural profession RMJM, an international architecture firm with U.S. headquarters in New York City, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design will announce today the launch of a $2 million program aimed at tackling a global... View full entry
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved with the dig. AP The temple on the periphery of the Sacsayhuaman fortress casts added light on pre-Inca cultures... View full entry
"This construction accident is one of the worst the city has had,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in a news conference this afternoon. The big, white tower crane, which looked to be about 20 stories tall, appeared to have toppled across a street and crashed into other nearby buildings. Mr... View full entry
