Dubai is set to get a $30b tourism and leisure complex, the world's longest hotel strip. Giant complex to add 29,200 rooms that will feature a cluster of 31 hotels, including the world's biggest, and some 100 theatres. Dubai: Surreal machine / telegenic city View full entry
Editor Heather Ring delivers a fresh UpStarts feature - landscape edition! - on Montréal's NIPpaysage. You must NIP it. View full entry
Dr. NO weighs in on the lifework of Jane Jacobs asking for us to mourn Robert Moses instead. | nytimes View full entry
The RAIC announces its 2006 Governors General Awards for Architecture. | ottawacitz --------sampling--------- atelier big city: saucier + perrote: baird sampson neuert: FABG: View full entry
Archinect editors, Zoë and Francisco David stopped in at the showroom of Ian Schrager's 40 Bond to photograph the Herzog and deMeuron protoype madness in full color. Check it here View full entry
Scandinavian style used to be synonymous with clean-lined, good-for-you design. But in the 21st century, Swedes are looking positively frisky. Charlotte Observer View full entry
Rome Prize winners ANNOUNCED. In Architecture: Patrick Tighe and Thomas Tsang. In Landscape: Charles Waldheim, Jose D. Parral, Jr. and Willett Moss + MORE. | (behind the scenes) View full entry
The Leonard Lopate show on WNYC remembers Jane Jacobs, who died April 25th, with past interviews from their archives. WNYC-Lopate l previous l related View full entry
Although media coming out of China often focuses on the destruction of ancient buildings and the construction of bland and often ugly skyscrapers and modern buildings in their place, there is actually a renaissance of first-class architectural design in China. | uoftnews View full entry
"As philosopher Alain de Botton drives away from The Manor, a new private housing development just off the M4 near Reading, he mutters with disdain: That was a real turkey twizzler. The twizzler in question is a house." | guardian View full entry
Ukrainians Mark 20 Years Since Chernobyl | Images via | Plus: Chernobyl 20 Years Later: New Report Finds Death Toll From Nuclear Disaster Close to 100,000. Dem Now View full entry
...clearing the way for the F-Tower to go up...Almost two Years after this. Sounds like taxpayers got the blunt end of the bargain and Pataki just might have paved part of his gold-brick road to the White House? NYT Buried somewhere near the end of the article: " To put the Freedom Tower on a... View full entry
With climate change hard upon us, a new green movement is taking shape, one that embraces environmentalism's concerns but rejects its worn-out answers. Wired View full entry
Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer/activist and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), passed away this morning in Toronto. Read + NYTJane Jacobs, 89: Urban legend Apr. 25, 2006. 12:34 PM WARREN GERARD TORONTO STAR Jane Jacobs was a writer, intellectual, analyst... View full entry
Results are IN.General Design Category, Awards of Excellence: From Brownfield to Greenfield: A New Working Landscape for Wellesley College Wrenched from its Toxic Past, Wellesley, Massachusetts Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts/New York City... View full entry