Is Islington Square, FAT's 23-unit social-housing project in east Manchester, postmodernism reborn? Fat chance. | guardian View full entry
Rebroadcast of reflections on the infamous architect Phillip Johnson organized and hosted by Terence Riley at MoMa with Robert AM Stern and Jeff Kipnis. WPS1 l related View full entry
When the Guangdong Tobacco Company solicited proposals for a new headquarters last fall, the company asked architects to incorporate measures for sustainability. The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill took the project as a challenge, submitting a design for a 300-meter tower that... View full entry
Twenty-eight young professionals have spent the past several weeks reading and selecting 30 essays to advance to Stage Two of the 2006 ArchVoices Essay Competition. As in past years, it has been proven to be a difficult task, with the 140 submissions invoking a wide range of perspectives... View full entry
On this 100th anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake we present an exclusive interview between Archinect's Geoff Manaugh and David L. Ulin, earthquake specialist and author of The Myth of Solid Ground. Read View full entry
100 years ago today San Francisco was rocked by an earthquake that would shape the way we think about responding to natural disasters. This exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming publication Design Like You Give A Damn studies both lessons learned and the ones that would have to rediscovered over... View full entry
Baltimore's free mag has a special April issue that attempts to A the Q: Can Architecture Save A City? On B-more's infrastructure, walkability, art hacks + a lot of ads. PDF View full entry
The architectural dream of the "Institute of Ideas" is drawn entirely by hand on 60 sheets. Stunning! Read Via View full entry
Miuccia Prada and Rem Koolhaas on shopping, art, and the revamped Prada store. NY Metro. Also, the store reopens with a 100-skirt exhibition installed by Koolhaas' AMO. Style View full entry
"prototype of an algorithmically designed brick wall, produced with a standard industrial robot during a dilpoma seminar at the eth zürich." Look View full entry
I get an e-mail from livinghomes.com telling me there is a pre-fab home installation of a Ray Kappe-designed house to be web cast live. I wire the news to Archinect. The whole world, including an Archinect correspondent in Dubai, knows about it instantly. Of course I am not on their VIP list so... View full entry
A different spin to the condo craaazy fad: insane asylums turned into condos. Of course, the best would be an arch school in a converted loony house. (thanks to Reg) View full entry
The main concept behind High Dynamic Range imaging is that you are taking several normal photos and combining them. By combining photos of the same scene at different exposure levels, you create a a surreal image with hyper-real colours and detail. See the Prada store, the Nakagin Capsule... View full entry
"Over 200 Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages are stacked in a north-south slant in relation to sun exposure for energy efficiency. Two shifts in the direction of the main axis of the fuselages generate two large open spaces within the stack." Who could it be? LoTek presented in Noticias. View full entry
"A decade ago, office towers guzzled energy as fast as they could, and 'sick building syndrome' was dismissed as a hypochondriac's all-purpose excuse. Since then, however, the rise of 'green' architecture has encouraged architects, developers and construction managers to consider the effect their... View full entry