Winning projects now posted on the competition website. 1st: Chris Hardie, Andrew Groarke, Kevin Carmody, and Lewis Kinneir; 2nd: Ramon Knoester and Eckart Graeve; 3rd: Roman Torres, Patrick Stinger, Mayva Marshall, Adrienne Yancone, and Adam Montalbano.first placesecond placethird placeThe... View full entry
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Land+Living Explores USC Landscape Project BrownLab | This Week's Dose | Wind farms: hot or not? | Chabon's lost architect's tale | MTA, Always a Flirt, Wants More Suitors in Brooklyn | Great Interview with Dolores Hayden | Plus... The Zollverein School by SANAA @ arcspace & Sorkin Interview... View full entry
The Fontainebleau is about to be branded. View full entry
Will Alsop -designed $82m Institute of Cell and Molecular Science at Queen Mary College, part of the University of London, a "Stellar center for cellular science" says CNN w/ gallery. Via View full entry
China has managed to supersize the mall by creating four malls larger than the Mall of America. The biggest, in Beijing, weighs in at 6 million sf. Hello, power shift. Go east, indeed. | nytimes (+audio slideshow) View full entry
After months of public protest, hearings and redesign, The Landmarks Preservation Commission today decided to go with Renzo Piano's Plan B for the Whitney Expansion, where only one of the adjacent townhouses will be demolished instead of two. Commission officials said "Renzo Piano's design... View full entry
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students will get the chance to work on the restoration of a Frank Lloyd Wright home from 1916. Read View full entry
"Big enough to make Mall of America look like a five-and-dime" and nary a drop of petroleum?? DestiNY Developers are betting on zero-energy with the help of government incentives, but is that compatible with the unbridled consumption orgy that is to go on inside? Grist | G-discuss | Paulina's blog View full entry
Brett Steele won the vote in the first round. More news later.Updated - see comments View full entry
Overemphasized renaissance of American cities continues to miss the point, which was framed by Engels when he considered the plight of urban poor. NewRepublic View full entry
OpEd The Politics of Architecture by Aaron Margolis takes Trump to task over his record of architectural malfeasance. >previous View full entry
New title from MIT Press In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World by John Thackara reviewed by Nancy Levinson in Pixel Points with ample comments branching off. View full entry
Images of Moshe Safdie's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art were released. The 100-acre museum complex will sit on land donated by the Walton Foundation and include gardens, forest and bike trails. | prev View full entry
One of the legs of the london landmark sits on land belonging to the South Bank Centre. The SBC wants to increase the rent from £65,000 a year to £2.5 million, beginning the 1st of July, otherwise...BBC | Guardian | Evening Standard 1 and 2 | London SE1 View full entry