Fill up your netflix queue, pop some popcorn, and dig in to Quang Truong's film architecture series. Great introductions for great films. View full entry
Lvov, a city in the Ukraine, has issued a challenge to it's citizens in the form of a giant crossword puzzle installed on the side of a building. The questions are located in different points of interest around the city, and the answers to the puzzle are only visible at night. English Russia View full entry
Thomas Mayne's Morphosis Architects, SOM, KPF and Richard Meier & Partners are among nine firms on the all-American shortlist to design Britain’s £275 million new US embassy. BD | previously | related View full entry
Banks aren't lending. Projects are shelved. And the normally secretive government has had to acknowledge it has one of the highest levels of per-capita debt in the world -- and not enough oil to pay for it. CBS News View full entry
...But even interior architects/designers need to be careful about the weight and connections of interior finishes. Patrons at a new Boston restaurant were injured when wood panels fell on them. View full entry
News Point and counterpoint? Is sustainability the newest fad or is it really the new degree zero? How about post-occupancy or pre-occupancy weatherization?Urban cannibalization? Continued after the jump....School BlogsInfrastructure as political will?Tijuana Brutalism; The Border... View full entry
To reflect on the prehistory of sustainability is not to find ‘precedents’ of practices that give us tips for the present. Rather these reflections aim to mobilize critical perspectives on the shifting definitions of the term and on the practices that are advanced in its name so as to... View full entry
Is better budgeting one of your resolutions for 2009? If so, and you're in NYC, you may be interested in this lecture on Monday by James Wines, president of SITE. View full entry
The LA Times' Greg Goldin reviews the recently released Arts & Architecture, 1945-54: The Complete ReprintArts & Architecture, which folded 41 years ago, is the most influential architecture magazine ever published. During the height of its run, from 1945 to 1967, it convinced the world... View full entry
Following a €100,000 (£98,000) refit by Berlin-based concept artist Miriam Kilali this shelter which nows features Italian wallpaper, gold trimmings, parquet flooring, red carpeting and crystal chandeliers has been dubbed the swankiest homeless shelter in the world.Guardian View full entry
Jessica, at The City College of New York, shows some love for her school and hopes for a better website. William, at University of Washington, shows us the fruits of his autumn quarter 08. Candace, at University of Illinois at Chicago, explores bifurcating surfaces, loves everyone, and explains... View full entry
About 140,000 houses will be weatherized with public help this year, a total that President-elect Barack Obama has promised to raise to one million, which would reduce energy consumption and cut energy costs for households and taxpayers, who often absorb those costs for the poor. Weatherizing a... View full entry
Elisabeth Rosenthal covers all the usual points; extreme energy efficiency, affordability (at least within Germancy) and some of the factors preventing it's wide-spread adoption in the USA.NYT View full entry
At the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organisation, they have developed a "hotel room of the future".The experimental room has been assembled in a giant laboratory. The idea is to show hotels how new technology can help guests relax.BBC News View full entry
Well it is almost time to ring in the New Year. What will you be doing? Here are some thoughts on what the year ahead holds.Does this mean no more dams?Capitalism critiqued, Japanese style?Old thread discovered Who doesn't like subjective lists?Suggestions for Kyoto archi-tourism?Typical... View full entry
