Zoë Blackler (BD) offers architectural action (and inaction) as activism for socially responsible Architects. | bdonlineA Time for Scruples 04 March 2005 Would you design a military installation? An animal research facility? Or a palace for a dictator? When it comes to... View full entry
BLUEPRINT magazine will be deciding in the furnace of public debate, over the next few Wednesday evenings in the impressive setting of Christ Church in London's Spitalfields, their pick for Architect of the Year 2004. The audience will vote after every session, and the winners will be announced... View full entry
ultima hora en español reports that 242 projects have been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2005, which includes 50,000euros. Announcement on April 11 2005. Jury (presided by "Hada Adid"...Zaha Hadid?): Aaron Betsky, Stefano Boeri, Eduard Bru, Roberto... View full entry
Lawrence Weschler: The Aural As An Architectonic Challenge | Green Skate Lab's East Coast Eco Bowl | Inflatable clothing/shelter | Dumbo's Jetsons Building Puts Pink Floyd to Shame | Bioscleave House View full entry
It's been approved. A $90,000 facelift to dull a section of Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall. AP | KTLA | previously | --- From the Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Disney Concert Hall to Lose Some Luster Shimmering panels that woo some but also bake neighbors across the street will be sanded. By... View full entry
The California architectural firm Morphosis, whose design concept featured a controversial egg-shaped dome, on Tuesday won the competition to create a new state Capitol in Juneau. From the Anchorage Daily News View full entry
Rice as a construction material? View full entry
Not content with the good 'ol "launch party," Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas & Mark Wigley(ARCHIS + AMO + GSAPP) hold a "press conference" about new collaborative-effort publication, Volume. Press release | discussion View full entry
‘Born into Brothels' picked up an Oscar for best documentary. Congratulations to first time filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski who operate a non-prof in Calcutta ‘Kids With Cameras,' dedicated to... View full entry
Miss Representation on shipping container fetish | Archinecter Bryan Boyer's Illyvator via Regine | Christo Gates QT Panorama | boxtank: Kotkin on reconsidering suburbs | The Bubble House View full entry
It was about time for Foster to be in the news again...Norman Foster proposal for "the New Globe" in Castle Williams, that crumbling bulwark on Governors Island, NYC. The theater is one of several proposals being considered for the site by the National Park Service, which owns and operates... View full entry
I've gotten word that Archinect's editor Mason White and partner Lola Sheppard / Lateral Architecture, will be a part of this year's Young Architects circle at the Architectural League, New York. We're all really happy for Mason+Lola! About the Award: The Young Architects Forum is an annual... View full entry
"Prince Charles yesterday resumed his long-standing argument with architects and planners, suggesting they were responsible for building unhealthy cities and buildings." Guardian | previously”¦ View full entry
What have foreign embassies done for the architecture movement in Berlin? With a couple of exceptions, the 90's featured less than anything daring. But the turn of a new millennium and the import of foreign representation has brought much of Berlin's best contemporary architecture to light. NYT View full entry
Steven Litt writes about the backlash to the Bilbao effect, and a new sense of “calm” in American museum design today, that emphasizes the contents rather than the showcase itself. Is Piano's Art Institute of Chicago expansion the perfect antidote to the... View full entry