Frank Gehry unveiled a mini-bilbao (or the experience wine project) in Spain yesterday. The building a merlot titanium clad building is an exclusive hotel in the heart of Basque wine country. EITB l TypSpan l USAT l images View full entry
The Center for Virtual Architecture at the University at Buffalo, the Institute for Distributed Creativity, and The Architectural League of New York present Architecture and Situated Technologies...ARCHITECTURE AND SITUATED TECHNOLOGIES October 19-21, 2006 @ The Urban Center & Eyebeam New... View full entry
Steven Holl 's resignation from Denver's Justice Center is still shrouded in hypotheses and surrounded with impassioned pleas for famous design. Denver Post 1-2-3 l previous View full entry
Making a piece that works in Tate Modern's vast turbine hall is far from child's play - Carsten Holler has responded to the challenge by turning the space into a giant playground. The artist tells Lynn Barber why riding his huge, curving, steel slides will change our perceptions and set us free... View full entry
The Pet Shop Boys are the subjects of a new National Portrait Gallery show/book. telegraph View full entry
.......NYT Magazine's annual Design Fall issue appears today....... View full entry
It's alcohol as urban infrastructure: "Russian customs officers say they have discovered a mile long pipeline that was pumping vodka to Latvia." Ananova. View full entry
A reminder that Architecture Week 2006 starts tonight. More info at the AIA NY. View full entry
A decade of dredging and artificial island-making will have removed almost all of the sand (1.9 billion sq.m) from the territorial waters of Dubai by the time Dubai Waterfront completes in 2011. ITP and Constructed leisure-land. View full entry
The 2006 Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award has been presented to the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. CA l press release (PDF) View full entry
Danish Architecture firm C. F. Møller has won a competition to design a 180m high skyscraper in Malmö. They could have done a quicky and use David's facade designer tool. View full entry
University of Chicago has revealed its intent to up its ante in its arts department by erecting a 100 million dollar creative and performing arts center. The University has created a short-list including Daniel Libeskind, Hans Hollein, Fumihiko Maki, Thom Mayne, and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien... View full entry
Los Angeles designer Julie Hart renovates an iconic Craig Ellwood/Jerry Lomax modest beach house in Malibu. It has been snapshooted and reviewed by yours truly. My Beautiful Day in Malibu Julie Hart is my American Friend. She is cool, talented and I love being her friend. She also happened to... View full entry
Qingyun Ma has been announced as the new dean of the USC School of Architecture. More | From the Jobs archive, 10/05 On behalf of President Sample, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Qingyun Ma as dean of the USC School of Architecture and holder of the Della and Harry MacDonald Dean's... View full entry
Replacement firm Grimshaw Architects is moving forward with the Queens Museum of Art. The museum will be unveiled on Saturday at the museum during Openhousenewyork Weekend, the annual architecture and design event. NYT l previous View full entry