If the heirs to Estée Lauder have their way, the magestic Tempelhof complex (Hitler's favorite airport) will be turned into some kind of opulent luxury clinic. Read (via) View full entry
If the Pentagon gets the Congress on board, a contractor will be solicited to build "a military commissions compound" at Guantánamo Bay costing up to $125 million, "a major undertaking meant to accommodate up to 1,200 people for the first U.S. war crimes trials since World War II."... View full entry
The University of Kansas design/build studio group Studio 804 has completed construction on their environmentally sustainable Modular 3 prefab home, and landed Architecture magazine's prestigious Home Of The Year Award for their design. Inhabitat View full entry
BMW is manufacturing the first series of hydrogen fueled cars. They're not as green as they seem. For a start, they're incredibly thirsty -- and they will put more strain on the environment than a heavy diesel truck. Spiegel l Also, listen to Edwin Black talking about Internal Combustion on WNYC View full entry
Drawing on advertising, pornography, and the media, Jeff Koons' art is about aspects of entertainment. His latest work is an assault on the shiny, happy surface of contemporary culture. TaipeiTimes View full entry
Damien Hirst recently bought a Warhol piece as he "fucking need one of those" Hirst, now a collector is curating an exhibition of his own collection to open in the Serpentine Gallery next week. Guardian>| Images|SG> View full entry
English Heritage says Jewish architecture is at risk as the community diminishes. Liverpool's Princess Road Synagogue is one of the buildings appearing in a new guidebook. BBC View full entry
Yonker's rapper DMX and his wife were making good on his childhood dream of moving to Harlem. But little did they know that the brownstone they purchased had in store for them. NYT View full entry
is TCAUP's second centennial conference kicking off on January 4. A century ago, the planet was primarily rural; today it is half urban; and in twenty-five years it will be predominately urban. What does this mean for the design, production, sustainability and experience of our buildings and... View full entry
A reduction in intellectual content in the glossies was largely the result of an increased reliance on photography, especially color photography. There's something about a color photograph that glamorizes its subject, and architectural writers soon adopted the slightly breathless tones of fashion... View full entry
NF: “As a student I won a prize that allowed me to spend a summer travelling through Europe and to study first hand buildings and cities that I knew only from the pages of books"Now he is giving a biennial travel grant of £6,000 to one student from up to 98 RIBA accredited architecture... View full entry
An exhibition of sumptuous black and white photographs of the people and architecture of the west African country of Mali by Stuart Redler is being shown simultaneously in both London and Timbuktu. View full entry
Rem + Parkour = REM TRACEUR!. via MIT (Arjun) blog. View full entry
Avant-garde artist Kirill Miller and friends have, in response to the laissez faire attitude of St. Petersburg officials in the governance of the Gazprom project, constructed their own alternative version version of the city. TMT l TSPT l previous View full entry
Peter Eisenman has been named one of this year's best innovator's by Popular Science Magazine, for his work on the Arizona Cardinals Stadium. POPSCI l also see alpha nail View full entry