The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) announced that four architectural firms have been selected for the final phase of the design competition for the new United States Embassy in London. State Department View full entry

Amanda Levete talks for the first time about her split from her husband, architect Jan Kaplicky, who died earlier this year. Telegraph | prev. View full entry

Check out the new website of the new PRADA transformer pavilion in Seoul by OMA. View full entry

Archipreneur's look into the history of spite houses, and a follow up with a modern one in the Washington DC area. Previously View full entry

News Two sides of the same coin? Maybe this will help? Or not. Is it Art, pornography or both? For your health? Discuss. Continued after the jump...Discussions We discuss Haruki Murakami along with the reactions of the Turkish Prime Minister. Barry asks, Bushvilles? A couple of good ones... View full entry

John Hartl, of the Seattle Times, reviews Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect. ViaThe busy, captivating "Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect" takes a documentary approach to the creations of the Dutch architect who designed the downtown Seattle Public Library. The film, which is the centerpiece of... View full entry

Gene, at New Jersey Institute of Technology, or now officially College of Architecture and Design, posts images from the annual Student Works Exhibition. Greg, at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, tries to face the little critics with kindergarten words. Scott, at UCLA, gives us an update... View full entry

Paffard Keatinge-Clay worked with the greats - Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe. Jonathan Glancey meets the 'Zelig' of modern architecture.The Guardian View full entry

For its inaugural competition, SMIBE, The Society for Moving Images about the Built Environment, received over 90 entries from 13 countries. Of that, twenty-four pieces, from both the general and student categories, were considered. The jury watched every piece followed by discussion of each... View full entry

Prior to Kaplicky's recent death, the controversial-from-the-start Prague National Library was considered to be officially shelved. There are reports surfacing now, however, hinting at the possibility of the project actually getting realized, partially in response to a Facebook-lead protest. I'll... View full entry

Archinect member tagalong has shared with us an email, from his school's administration, cracking down on the all-nighter studio ritual. View full entry

Thursday March 05 /.EventsDateModule THE COMMONS , New York, NY EMERGING VOICES 2009: Shane Coen, Coen + Partners, Minneapolis and New York City; Derek Dellekamp, D , New York, NY Thom Mayne in Films and Conversations with the Architects , New York, NY A Special Evening with Architect Ron... View full entry

Whet your appetite for Mimi Zeiger's upcoming book--Tiny Houses--by checking out its first round of reviews, via loud paper | Tiny Houses, available later this month at bookstores near you. View full entry

Advertisers, sponsors and partners help make this site possible, and for that, we are super grateful! UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Jumpstart '09 University of Applied Arts Vienna Boston Society of Architects The John M. Clancy Award Georgia-Pacific Gypsum Woodbury University SCI-Arc A New... View full entry

The organisations behind the world's three leading environmental assessment tools (BREEAM, LEED and Green Star) are combining forces to come up with a common way to measure carbon emissions from new buildings. Read View full entry