The Freitag Shop in Zurich is piled high with modified steel shipping container goodness. See the construction process and shipping container conversion on Freitag's Flickr page. via l previous View full entry
The Alliance to Rescue Civilization , a group that advocates a backup for humanity by way of a station on the Moon replete with DNA samples of all life on Earth, as well as a compendium of all human knowledge...NYT l also View full entry
Check out this video from CNN featuring Peter Demaria's house in LA. Also, a story in the St. Petersburg Times about a shipping container house here in St. Pete, Florida. View full entry
Christopher Hawthorne takes a look at Ray Kappe's new Ocean Park prefab for Living Homes and questions if it is Such a Deal? View full entry
Stan Allen 's RSS feed reports on the progress of the Sagaponac house with a teaser pic. | more info View full entry
"Inspections of Boston's Big Dig reveal hundreds of bolts that need to be reinforced. What keeps houses, bridges and tunnels from falling apart? And are there ways to easily detect damage before it becomes severe?" NPR View full entry
The GSA has put together a traveling exhibition called "Thresholds Along the Frontier: Contemporary U.S. Border Stations," to show immigrants and tourists that America is welcoming you not only with open arms, but, uh...yeah, a good first impression, too. hmm...WashPost View full entry
An innovative cell-shaped building will house a new biomedical research institute in Chengdu, China, thanks to an unusual crossdisciplinary collaboration between Shuguang Zhang, a world-renowned bioengineer and scientist at MIT, and his former student, architecture major Sloan Kulper...Sloan... View full entry
Gehry pays $4.5M to subcontractors for cost overruns on the Disney Concert Hall. LAtimes View full entry
The Church of St. Pierre has stirred debate among Parisian academics about the ethics of finishing a work left behind by a legendary architect. NY Times View full entry
What would the "Attract any woman now" thread look like? Some answers from the Spam Architecture series by alex dragulescu at UCSD. More at CSM | thanks to Bldgblog View full entry
In the city of Bahia, the ingenuity of the owner a local constrains produced a beautiful 1,1 m wide house, the house is now a tourist attraction...and there was no architect involved. Photos / articles 1 & 2 (in portuguese). Babelfish funny translation inside. View full entry
Recently SMAQ's fabulous installation BAD (bath) opened. It is situated in the highly frequented leisure landscape of Solitude palace gardens close to Stuttgart in Germany. Check out the photos of the finished installation and the construction diary. View full entry
John King takes on Libeskind's self-cloning designs as the Jewish Museum in San Francisco finally gets underway. But he also writes, "stylistic familiarity needn't breed real-life contempt. [...] what we're getting is early Libeskind -- a design that began gestating when he was focused on a few... View full entry
"Tate Modern has been a victim of its own extraordinary success," writes Jonathan Glancey. The £165m extension, a hulking glass ziggurat, will offer 10 new galleries, six cafes and bars, two shops, a range of teaching rooms. "Tate Modern 2 will be realised not just on a cinematic... View full entry