Edward Lifson translates a little French for us, from the Quebec news, "Mies van der Rohe can rest in peace: everything indicates that the old Esso Gas Station on Nuns' Island will remain standing." Continue | Previously View full entry

Thursday February 05 /.EventsDateModule Nature has all the answers , Materia Inspiration Centre, Enter, The Netherlands Drawing Lightscapes Exhibit , New York, NY Spaceship Earth Salon #1 , Stockholm, Sweden Friday February 06 /.EventsDateModule Scion’s National Art Tour INSTALLATION... View full entry

Niemeyer gives up his fight for Plaza of Sovereignty. Niemeyer says in a letter published Wednesday in the Correio Braziliense newspaper that he won't fight to build his envisioned "Plaza of Sovereignty" in Brasilia because the government has made clear it won't fund the project at the UNESCO... View full entry

Let's all give a round of applause to this week's line-up of Archinect advertisers!Woodbury University's new M.Arch ProgramGeorgia PacificHarvard Career Discovery ProgramInsight Constructability ServicesA NEW INFRASTRUCTURE: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los AngelesBoston Society of Architects... View full entry

Architect Lebbeus Woods shares illustrations he did in 1990 for Alien III, while hired by 20th Century Fox as a conceptual architect. View full entry

Thanks to all of you who submitted to [bracket]'s call for entries. Around 220 submissions arrived before the day ended yesterday. Mason and team will be organizing the entries in anticipation of the judging in Toronto. Good luck! View full entry

Norman Foster is set to be expelled from the House of Lords under new reforms drawn up by justice secretary Jack Straw. BD View full entry

A look at San Diego/Tijuana by architect Teddy Cruz and filmmaker Laura Hanna The Nation View full entry

Building on the success of the School of Architecture’s undergraduate program, Woodbury is launching a new Master of Architecture degree program that takes advantage of the diverse research opportunities in Southern California to produce critically effective and inventive designers who can... View full entry

The Vienna University of Economics and Business recently announced the complete list of winners of their major campus redesign competition. We have featured images of Zaha Hadid's winning entry for the new Library and Learning Center before, and here are more images of the campus master plan... View full entry

News Is this further proof of the death of the Icon? The desire to preserve Modernism vs Modernism as an ongoing project ReadA precursor to a Pritzker win? Think they still have the full $1.2 billion to complete the rest of the project? So no Pro Bono? A somewhat differing opinion? Continued... View full entry

Recent evidence suggests there are two emerging directions, apparently opposite, in progressive domestic architecture. The first is the Passive House, a generic term for modest, densely built, perfectly insulated, low-energy, slightly grim eco-bunkers. And in completely glorious contrast there is... View full entry

My good friends Ali and Poonam of LOC Architects are profiled in this weekend's LA Times for the recent renovation of their Los Angeles Chinatown live/work space. I was able to follow their progress converting a run-down two-bedroom apartment into a beautiful modern courtyard home. Article... View full entry

In less than six months after its glorious opening, the olympic stadium will anchor a shopping mall. With only one event planned for 2009, maintenance of the 250,000-square-meter National Stadium cost 60 million yuan a year, making it hard to make profit. shanghaidaily View full entry

Preservationists say they are fighting to protect Brasilia's signature skyline designed by legendary architect Oscar Niemeyer — from Oscar Niemeyer himself. The 101-year-old architect envisions building a "Plaza of Sovereignty," including a low-lying, curved building and a soaring... View full entry