Innovator bends metals, rules - the AP reports on Kansas City-based company heavily favored for complex metal installations. Read View full entry
Anna Holtzman, in the Architects' Newspaper asks: "are 'designer buildings' adding quality to New York's urban fabric or just padding developers' pockets?" View full entry
To influence the built environment after the “New Economy,” the architect must re-tool with new knowledge and skills sensitive to our period of cultural and economic leveling. SCI-FI, the Post-Graduate Studies program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture... View full entry
ArchRecord has created an online collection of writings/articles on architecture from past to present, called In the Cause of Architecture. View full entry
Public opinion weighs in on HdM's de Young museum with harsh words. (Wait a minute, didnt this happen with Rem's SPL... then everyone went ga-ga.) | sfgate | pics View full entry
"Just as the Internet has realigned mating rituals, it is now transforming the way architects and clients find each other." Read more in the NY Times. View full entry
Cambridge University Architecture faces possible closure after failing to meet university research standards. | guardian | + The AA is going through a 'rethink' because of conflict with ARB and RIBA. | bd(reg) View full entry
Ezra Stoller , famed photographer of high modernism and founder of ESTO, dead at 89. | obit View full entry
Fred Bernstein on the alert. "In a society otherwise enamored of the styles of the 1960's, the architecture of that decade is rarely loved and frequently reviled. All over the country, 60's buildings are being torn down while much older buildings survive." Read View full entry
Archinect editor Susan Surface today presents a cogent View about why the social interest in architecture needs to follow in the path of the ecological interest to find new market opportunities for survival and success. View full entry
David Adjaye 's vision for Denver contrasts with Libeskind's: interior over exterior. | DenverPost View full entry
ARCH'IT features for the week: Twelve, Barbara Kruger's Latest Work; Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete (w/ curator M. Moeller); and Installing Liquid Stone (Nationanl Building Museum exhibition design by TWBTA). Previously: 1 , 2 , + related. View full entry
The stunning Ciudad del Flamenco en Jerez by Herzog and de Meuron is undergoing some design revisions based on local input. Christin Binswanger recently presented along with her boss, Herzog. H&dM beat some stiff competition from the likes of Siza, Sanaa, and Abalos y Herreros for this one... View full entry
The Royal Australia Institute of Architects 24th National Architectural Awards are now online. View full entry
Neutelings Riedijk Architects wins international design competition in Ljubljana for the Kolizej Music (Theater) Center (Archined) View full entry