An investigation is underway into how 90% of students on an architecture course failed their final exams. ** updated ** - tektlab, Archinect member and failing student from this particular class, offers some insight (read comments) The course at the University of Central England, Birmingham, has... View full entry
How architects are blending security and technology into big, beautiful buildings. From Time View full entry
List of United Kingdom's Most Endangered Modernist Monuments.The Twentieth Century Society campaigns for the Protection of Britain’s best architecture, from 1914 onwards. To mark the 25th anniversary of the Society, we have chosen some of Britain’s best... View full entry
The first in the three part series, this panel discussion, moderted by Deborah Snoonian, Senior Editor, Architectural Record, will include the brightest young stars in the architectural design community. Join the AIA Young Architects Forum as we listen to emerging voices--Chris Bardt and Kyna... View full entry
commentary by Sam Hall Kaplan (former LA Times architecture critic) for the LA Downtown News View full entry
A huge glass-and-steel cocoon has taken shape along a desolate stretch of the River Spree in Berlin. The dazzling, futuristic structure is the roof of the city's new Central train station, to be up and running in 2006. TIME Magazine takes a peak. View full entry
The Arkansas News Bureau goes on a tour of the interior of the new Clinton Presidential Library, set to open in November. previously: Clinton Library Revives Little Rock, Partisan EnmityClinton Library Going Up View full entry
Goodbye 18th-century country house, hello Prada suit, Neutra house and (K)noll furniture Mies van der Rohe skyscrapers, along with modernist homes by Richard Neutra and Gordon Bunshaft, now rank as the latest must-haves for a growing body of deep-pocketed collectors on both sides of the... View full entry
Part of the University's College of Arch & Planning program has been to work with the Native American Indians in the San Juan County, Utah. They are hoping their Bluff Design Studio will become more akin to Rural Studio. On Sunday the 18th, this home will be anointed with a Navajo ceremony... View full entry
In Tel Aviv, as opposed to the periphery, says a new fanzine ”˜Archisex', all architectural `facilities' - industrial zones, skyscrapers, elevators, car parks, bomb shelters, kiosks, convenience stores - are active sex sites in disguise. (via HAARETZ.com) View full entry
The LEED professional accredidation exam is going to be revised--and made more difficult, in September. So if you always wanted to be green, take the test before August 19th. Info View full entry
To further delve into the areas of art, architecture, design, and culture, Archinect unveils its new Views section. It's a unique new forum that we hope to nurture; we also want to develop discourse and critical thinking throughout the known archinected universe. It's like news, features, and... View full entry
Visual arts supremo Robert Hughes reveals himself erudite on the topics of girders, concrete and joists. (frm The Sydney Morning Herald) View full entry
a page (babelfish) w/ design images of Foster project for Saint-Etienne auditorium. More info available at Foster and Partners. (via) text from Foster's office: The Saint-Etienne Métropole has announced that Foster and Partners are the winners of an International Architectural... View full entry
...and he's got a review of the Tall Buildings exhibit at the MoMA QNS. (in case you hadn't heard, Muschamp "wants to do something else"). View full entry