SHoP, Walter Hood, and Bill Moggridge (Lifetime achievement) among this year's winners... link | bustler View full entry
Razia Iqbal examines the plans submitted for Nicholas Sarkozy's proposed redevelopment of Paris. She argues that: "For all the impact of so-called iconic buildings, where architects can truly contribute is in finding solutions to urban planning. In fact, it could be argued that they are morally... View full entry
Perrault was selected among six companies, finalists in the contest, all of them world architectural design leaders, including Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, and Massimiliano Fuksas. Two Bulgarian firms also participated in the final stages of the contest. Bustler View full entry
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics explores the monumental career of 98-year-old architectural photographer, Julius Shulman. A new documentary film currently screening in select locations across N.America until June 22. View full entry
Danish architects BIG, together with Michel Rojkind Arquitectos, have won the competition for the New Tamayo Museum which is to be built right outside of Mexico City. Bustler View full entry
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe announced today that the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo, Norway by Snøhetta is the winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. Bustler View full entry
A credit crunch-defying ‘super yacht’ designed by Norman Foster has been launched at the Italian port of La Spezia. BD View full entry
A team from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia has won the Global Social Venture Competition with their entry "EcoFaeBrick", high-quality, low-cost bricks made from abundant cow dung. Bustler View full entry
Mohammed Saleh is convinced: If he builds it, Lebanese expatriates will come. The Beirut-based developer envisions a 3.3-square-kilometer, artificial island shaped like a cedar tree as a major attraction off Lebanon's coast. AP View full entry
The Wall Street Journal asks four firms: William McDonough + Partners, Cook + Fox, Rios Clementi Hale Studios and Mouzon Design to draw up plans for the most energy-efficient houses they could imagine. They imagined quite a bit. Hat-tip to Treehugger My favorite if only for the vegitecture... View full entry
A random roundup of the best, or worst, (depending on your perspective) analysis of the swine flu pandemic (a harbinger of millennial urbanization effects to come?) : architecture(s) of global health (via nam) | The Diseased Utopia on bldgblog | la cumbia de la influenza (because Mexicans didn't... View full entry
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released 2009's list of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The list includes: Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Miami Marine Stadium, FL Dorchester Academy, Midway, GA Lāna'i City, HI Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL Ames Shovel Shops... View full entry
"Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning", says Mark C. Taylor, chairman of Columbia's religion department. Taylor's op-ed in the NYT goes on to describe the need for Universities to adopt a more collaborative and cross-disciplinary approach to education. Discuss View full entry
Welcome to the Apocalypse, H1N1? Javier coins the term, "spatial bikeology". One of our own makes it to Washington and blogs about the team's project. Kirk announces the return of the Cult of MANIFESTO, along with booze. A Defense of the oppressed?? Local crack.Image after jump... View full entry
Samuel, at University of Tennessee, is very happy to announce that his team has secured a $75,000 grant as part of Phase II of the EPA's P3 Sustainable Design Competition. Congrats, Samuel! Tyler, at Dalhousie University, shows us what Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, looks like... View full entry
