A builder in DC says "screw you" to his traditional neighbors and builds his 12-foot-wide mini skyscraper house. APT Therapy View full entry
Dutch firm VMX Architects designs a Hilton Hotel for the project Ordos100 (Mongolia), lead by Herzog & De Meuron and Ai Weiwei. Google-translation from Architectenweb (The Netherlands) | SpaceInvaded View full entry
News Double FOG, Once and twice. At least it is "techincally" legal. Who doesn't love some Brutality?. And why not?. Continued after the jump.....Discussions Any advice for a would be furniture maker ? "We as architects are very comfee with using the gaussian UV mapping of curvy form/diagram in... View full entry
The legendary Bauhaus movement turns 90 this year. The school was founded by a young architect, Walter Gropius, who wanted to shape products for the future and create a more just society. "We all lived together like siblings," reported Bauhaus student Ré Soupault. Anyone who came to study... View full entry
Thursday February 26 /.EventsDateModule David Kohn: The Hedghog and the Fox , London, UK The Future of Glass in the New Economy: A panel discussion with Mark DuBois, James O’Callaghan, Ma , New York, NY The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age , London, United Kingdom - Barbican... View full entry
Just a reminder... the ArchMart has a number of new listings offering studio space for lease, housing, and goods for sale. View full entry
Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx is one of a dozen run by the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Its compact layout is typical of New York’s urban courses—nine holes, tree-lined fairways, the odd sand bunker—save for one highly unusual obstacle: the $2.1 billion... View full entry
As reported on Archinect a year ago, Maurice Agis, 76, creator of Dreamspace, has been convicted of breaching health and safety laws related to the deaths of two visitors to his inflatable sculpture in the UK in the summer of '06, but was not convicted of his charged claim of manslaughter. BBC |... View full entry
The dome provides shelter for the homeless and is made from plastic, wire and packing peanuts. Pretty much, trash. Max walk away with $10,000 and a Dell laptop. Wow! (regarding the cash prize) GOM View full entry
Ada Louise Huxtable uses a critique of the renovation (restoration?) of Paul Rudolph Hall at Yale as the framework for an argument that "20th-century heritage is in crisis and in desperate need of a revised, realistic agenda..." WSJ View full entry
Ada Louise Huxtable is a formidable architecture critic, but her legacy may be too much of a good thing. Architect Mag View full entry
Italy will forge ahead with a controversial plan to build the world's largest suspension bridge, a massive structure which will arch between the mainland and Sicily. Telegraph View full entry
As the architect's "Keep Memory Alive Foundation" funded building, Lou Ruvo Brain Institute, aka 'brain building,' nears completion in Las Vegas, another composition in Jerusalem, 'Museum of Tolerance,' faces increasing opposition. This time from the Jewish clergy, CCAR. View full entry
We'd like to take moment to thank this week's Archinect advertisers for the support.Georgia PacificWoodbury University's new M.Arch ProgramHarvard Career Discovery ProgramA NEW INFRASTRUCTURE: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los AngelesInsight Constructability ServicesOrchid 3DBoston Society of... View full entry
Slate's Witold Rybczynski takes us on a brief tour of Louis Kahn's life through his sketches. Go View full entry
