Effective at the end of the month: Ed Feiner resigns as Chief Architect for the GSA's Public Building Service, after a decade of tirelessly advancing the cause of quality federal architecture! What will become of the Design Excellence Program? ** Update: read comments ** View full entry
fabprefab newsletter 09 is out, highlights inclue an interview with Toby Long, the habitainer, lvlhome and the reatreat. View full entry
Milwaukee Rowing Club on archidoseNew urban cultural studies e-journal in Spanish from Chile: bifurcaciones (accepting submissions)Bridges, Bridges and more Bridges... a Wired guideWomen architects create a unique college building in Ms. Magazine View full entry
In a move reminiscent of its evisceration of Marcel Breuer's Pirelli Building in New Haven (images: before; after), Ikea has begun demolition of five historic Red Hook structures to make way for a parking lot for its planned Brooklyn Store. (via Curbed) View full entry
Rich Mitchell, AIA chapter president for Portland, OR, issues a call for local civic patronage of great design, after the former mayor chose to withhold an annual design award last year for what she considered a lack of a deserving local project. The Oregonian View full entry
Christopher Hume of the Toronto Star likens that city's current architectural projects to the beginnings of a cultural renaissance. Star | Prev. View full entry
The Mac Observer reports that ID Mag named Steve Jobs the second most influential design trendsetter. Norman Foster is 11th; Frank Gehry is 12th. New features now on ArcSpace The Curbed Year-End Awards (I+II,III) View full entry
With an elevator that travels up to 60 km/hr, it takes less than a minute to ascend. From the BBC View full entry
A fire has torn through a Buenos Aires nightclub packed with young New Year's revellers and has killed at least 175 people after a stampeding crowd was trapped by locked exit doors. Reuters View full entry
When Craig D. Williams, an architect in Santa Rosa, Calif., first heard about the devastating impact of the tsunami on communities in Asia and East Africa, he jumped online. As the director of the North American chapter of Architects Without Borders, an international network of volunteers, Mr... View full entry
Susan Sontag , one of America's most influential intellectuals, internationally renowned for the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and her ardent activism in the cause of human rights, died today of leukemia. She was 71. (ChiTrib) View full entry
Robert Campbell picks his favorites for the year. He makes a good point which will probably be passed over in all other lists: Genzyme Center in Cambridge by Behnisch. View full entry
In this Sunday's NYTimes:MoMA's New Home, for Better and Worse (What works and what flunks); Civic Boosterism Never Looked So Sexy (on architecture's supposed turn towards the civic) & Inside the Year's Best-Reviewed Buildings (Stata, SPL, Jazz at Lincoln Center: How Y'all Doin'?) View full entry
Alain Robert ("Spiderman"), a 42 year old French climber famous for climbing some of the world's tallest structures, scales the Taipei 101 on Christmas day, a week before it's official inauguration. Read at CNN | More on the Taipei 101 View full entry
The design scheme, by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, calls for a succession of hills, open plazas and recreation zones snaking along the water and a series of canals and boardwalks winding around and above the piers. After several false starts, state and city officials are set to sign off on... View full entry