Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Consider putting together your submission for [bracket], Archinect's foray into print publishing, in collaboration with InfraNet Lab. Theme for this inaugural issue is farming; deadline is Monday; esteemed jury will be convening in Toronto shortly... View full entry

Every year the Today programme invites people in the public eye, from artists and musicians to business men and royalty, to guest edit the programme in the week after Christmas. The fifth and final programme was edited by architect Zaha Hadid. BBC audio > View full entry

With giddiness and glee, musicians tested the acoustics of the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, less than a month before it reopens after a $159 million, 22-month upgrade, a major milestone in Lincoln Center’s $1.2 billion remaking.NYT View full entry

Thursday January 29 /.EventsDateModule Paul Villinski: “Emergency Response Studio” , Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas Peter Macapia : Swarm : Gallery opening , New York, NY Films and Conversations with the Architects: Daniel Libeskind , Center for Architecture |... View full entry

Susan Surface shares some of her (really beautiful) photographs from the recent Toyo Ito lecture and Rudolph Symposium at Yale, where she is currently school blogging. Take a look View full entry

As reported by the Globe & Mail, "The Esso on Berlioz Street was designed by world-famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1968, one year before he died. It was one of the final projects for the pioneering modernist designer of modern skyscrapers such as the TD Centre in Toronto and New... View full entry

"President-elect Obama, we’re informed, intends to create an Office of Urban Policy. Obama is a lawyer, and I’m sure he’s thinking more about social issues than about architecture or urban design. But at this writing (in early December), nobody knows who will occupy the new... View full entry

The architects Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith (MOS) have won the annual competition to transform the courtyard at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens. Their project, titled “afterparty,” is a mix of what could be described as cones, domes, smokestacks... View full entry

Our friends at Graft have shared their 0 Energy hOUSE with us. Images at SpaceInvading, text after the jump...0 Energy hOUSE Program: 0 Energy hOUSE Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Size: 16,000 sq. ft Concept We have applied an integrated strategy of developing a zero-energy house that... View full entry

For recent architecture school graduates trying to make it in the professional world, life can be difficult. With construction slowing, money running out, and entry level hires dwindling, the options seem limited. However, the severe and nearly unprecedented nature of the lows to which this... View full entry

Erin, at University of Washington, is still alive (yay!) and tells us more about that fat gaining elephant, called Thesis. Looking for exciting lectures and events this winter/spring? Scott, at UCLA, has some really good ones. Gene, at New Jersey Institute of Technology, hasn't had a warm site... View full entry

UPDATE: OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center is topped out View full entry

Newsweek discusses China's re-purposing of unused old buildings. Read View full entry

Porsche's new museum in Stuttgart, designed by Delugan Meissl, is a spectacular piece of architecture featuring equally spectacular cars. Der Spiegel | Slideshow | prev. View full entry

News Member toasteroven writes " I'd be more interested in "genetic mutations" from this process... like a house constructed only of bathrooms"People Shapes!A plastic president?Fretwork to warm the body and soul. Continued after the jump...DiscussionsStay with China or switch to India and... View full entry