Invited international housing competition..."for a creative and environmentally friendly low-rise multifamily housing project. The competition objective was to develop a new model for low-density residential community living that would be unique and identifiable to the new town of Pan-Gyo... View full entry
Hugh Pearman highlights a recent publishing frenzy: ...in 2004, this was still a relatively undocumented phenomenon...from South Africa to Chile, California to Spain. Gabion / discuss View full entry
Today's issue of CS Monitor has an awesome spread on Cameron Sinclair and his "unorthodox methods" of organizing and running Architecture for Humanity, now in its seventh year of addressing global humanitarian crisis. Nice pic, dude! View full entry
Booming Moscow's architect Nodar Kancheli's roofs keep collapsing and leaving many dead. Before and now. View full entry
Architecture and the political are more unitied than ever. The destruction of the Golden Mosque at the Askariya Shrine in Samarra have kick up more than just cartoon angst. NYT l WashPost l TimesOn View full entry
What's the difference between memorial architouring and making a pilgrimage? NYFA View full entry
Artkrush released their architecture and design issue today, with a focus on blogs: including, yes, Archinect, but also Kazys Varnelis, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Core 77, Archidose, fabprehab, Progressive Reactionary, BLDGBLOG, MoCo Loco, resarch, designboom, etc. etc.; and a... View full entry
Hotel Puerta America has a room for all your moods. AL l related l dose part 1 l dose part 2 View full entry
One of the hottest travel trends of the moment is hautel couture. The world's leading style gurus have started to team fashion labels with fancy lobbies and have opened a catwalk's worth of designer hotels. TimesOn View full entry
The great Chicago architect Louis Sullivan lived a roller-coaster of a life, ascending to the heights of his profession with soaring skyscrapers and ideas, then plummeting to a hellish existence that found him penniless and without work when he died. This year, which marks the 150th anniversary... View full entry
Domus Web placed a number of selected entries on its web page of the controversial call for ideas for the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. entries | And makin us proud is John Jourden (see entry RE-Juche: A Dystopian Reversal) among some good company. *domus requires registration View full entry
Architectural League of NY announces Emerging Voices 2006: nARCHITECTS, Estudio Cruz, Studio Gang, Lead Pencil Studio, dECOi, George Yu, Bercy Chen, Escher GuneWardena. | lecture series View full entry
The High Court of Justice is slated to hand down its decision in the coming days on whether the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) may continue building its planned Center for Human Dignity, Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem complex following public protests and two petitions by Israeli... View full entry
Zaha Hadid commissioned for new library at Universidad de Sevilla, beating Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra, Cruz y Ortiz, and Dominique Perrault. ABC | Diario | translate | via View full entry
As you heard before, plans for a futuristic elevated gondola system linking Brooklyn to Manhattan by way of Governors Island on a tramway were introduced yesterday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. NYT | discussion | Curbed View full entry