The public are to be asked to submit their favourite quote to reflect 10 years of the Scottish parliament at Holyrood, the winning submission to be carved into the building's walls. [...] The Canongate wall was the idea of Enric Miralles, the Barcelona-based architect who won an international... View full entry
It’s impossible to legislate weirdness, which is a sad thing for the city’s architectural heritage.NYMagazine View full entry
As we reported last May , the department of architecture building at TU Delft burned down. In September an open ideas competitions, Building for Bouwkunde, was launched to help seek a direction for rebuilding. The winners have just been announced - visit Bustler for details on the results... View full entry
The architects, who are finishing projects right now are in high demand by the critics. Specially the high profile ones. Every critic is on a hunt for a new project and if they don't find one, they are opting out for an infrastructure story or ‘the starchitecture is dead’ angle. It is... View full entry
Slideshow of photographs from abandoned schools in Detroit. ViceLand "Recently, a principal at one Detroit public school asked parents to send toilet paper and light bulbs to school with their children because the district could no longer provide those necessities... The Detroit Public Schools... View full entry
Nick, at UC Berkeley, has meanwhile continued his travels from Korea to Japan and experiences a very soft Tokyo. Emily, at University of Southern California, gave her final thesis presentation (yay! congrats, Emily!), and is now accepting job offers. Have we mentioned her green website yet?... View full entry
The NY Observer discusses SHoP's unique interpretation of masonry for 290 Mulberry in NYC's historic Nolita. View full entry
Toshiko Mori's Darwin Martin House Visitor Center, the final piece of the $50 million Martin House restoration and expansion is set to open on March 18th. via Buffalo News View full entry
Budding home designers and decorators can now create realistic homes and stock them with virtual furniture, appliances and decorative products using a free online tool from Autodesk, which makes a wide range of powerful design software... Using the new Web service, dubbed Project Dragonfly, you... View full entry
Thursday March 12 /.EventsDateModule Lewis Mumford Lecture in Urbanism: City of Words by Paul Auster , City College of New York, NY Lieb House: Change of Address: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in Conversation at Storefront , New York, NY EMERGING VOICES 2009: Darren Petrucci, A-I-R... View full entry
The Neues Museum briefly reopened here last weekend and local newspapers reported that more than 35,000 Berliners, many of them waiting hours in the cold in lines stretching nearly half a mile, filed into the still empty building over three days to see it. Michael Kimmelman reports for the NYT View full entry
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
