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
Perhaps the best-known architect in Norway, Sverre Fehn, passed away yesterday from natural causes at age 84. More info here. He will be remembered. View full entry
Across the city, the starchitect building bubble has burst overnight. Developers from Silverstein to Swig face financial setbacks or even foreclosures, and even the Port Authority is planning on “stumps” in place of towers at Ground Zero. Sans skyscrapers atop them, the plinths of... View full entry
Number one on my list of things happening in your world is this: Hammer Pants are Back. Not because i want to bust out my old Z.Cavaricci's, but because the link EP put up there takes you to a great video from 60 minutes with Wyclef Jean. Now that's worth checking out even if drop-crotch silk... View full entry
Emily Kemper has launched her M.Arch thesis project website. Check it out at www.greendesigncollective.com and help her out by providing some feedback and taking the survey (link at the bottom of her site). She'll be reviewing survey submissions until the end of the week. View full entry
Look forward to a bubble of almost nothing, as this year Sejima + Nishizawa have been selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde park. View full entry
Originally dug out as a mine tunnel, this 15,000 sq ft cave in St Louis, Missouri has been converted into a family home and is now up for auction on Ebay. The design of the home is unfortunate, to say the least, but it still has the potential to make for an architect's dream project. View full entry
"It has become a beloved ritual at Dana-Farber: Every day, children who come to the clinic write their names on sheets of paper and tape them to the windows of the walkway for ironworkers to see. And, every day, the ironworkers paint the names onto I-beams and hoist them into place as they add... View full entry
Marvin Rand dies at 84; photographer cataloged L.A. architectural historyLA Times Also, a sweet anecdote my friend Eric has just sent;"I first met Mr Rand at a birthday party for architect and SCI-Arc founder Ray Kappe. I brought Rand to the table to talk with the other famous LA photographer... View full entry
Sunday’s opening of a remade Alice Tully Hall, the first phase of an overhaul of Lincoln Center scheduled for completion in 2010, is a revelation. Designed by Diller Scofidio & Renfro, the womblike performance space, its surfaces flush with new life, makes it hard to remember the... View full entry
Telling children aged between five and eight about architecture is the curious vocation of Jorge Raedó. Together with mathematician and IT consultant Luís Moreno and Eva Serrats, architect, the project attempts to bring children into contact with architecture and awaken their... View full entry
Women’s Wear Daily recently commissioned seven architects to envision the future of NYC's fashion district. One proposal that caught our attention by Pentagram's James Biber. His concept proposes a series of horizontal skyscrapers connecting "various showrooms, designers, sales forces... View full entry
