A year ago, actor Brad Pitt presented lot owners in the devastated Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans with a portfolio of designs by 13 well-regarded architects, saying, in essence, choose a design and your house will be built. The first six homes built by Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation are now... View full entry
December 15 /.EventsDateModule universal design award 2009 Rudy Bruner Award lebens(t)räume 2009 AIA San Francisco 2009 Design Awards December 19 /.EventsDateModule Discarded Dreams Mattress Recycling Competition December 20 /.EventsDateModule Lissone Design Award 2008 “Lighting... View full entry
Few weeks ago I posted the mostly model pics of Wyly Theatre by REX/OMA. A new flickr friend Super Bjorn of ACE Mentor Program just sent me his construction shots of the project. Builders and architects would appreciate these. jobsite pics View full entry
As the world's economy crumbles and concerns about energy and the environment become increasingly urgent, Versace serves up a proposal for a refrigerated beach in Dubai.The revolutionary beach will sit next to the new Palazzo Versace hotel and will include a system of heat-absorbing pipes built... View full entry
Last Saturday, President-elect Obama announced plans for a "public works construction program" that will be "the largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s." Is he talking about architecture? I'm not getting my hopes up... View full entry
In the grays of winter, the last stop on any subway line can have a lonely, ominous feel. But when the new $530 million South Ferry station, the terminus of the No. 1 train, opens in January, it will have some added luminosity, thanks to a site-specific installation by the artists Doug and Mike... View full entry
"The mightylittle Edition" The big news on the interwebz this week: New Hatch Series Archinect T-Shirts have arrived.Elsewhere in the forum:DI Rankings for Arch Schools are causing the usual rumblings from those who find that interesting. The Economic Crisis is on everyone's mind. At press time... View full entry
The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer. Fantastic, copyright free imagery. Here is a result for Architecture > View full entry
Patricia Brown travels to Sea Ranch the once-idealistic second-home community, conceived of by the architects Charles W. Moore, Joseph Esherick, William Turnbull, Donlyn Lyndon, Richard Whitaker and the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.NYT View full entry
Legal actions brought against Amish residents in Wisconsin and New York in the past year and a half for building without proper permits. yahoo news View full entry
President-elect Barack Obama has picked the widely respected housing commissioner for New York City, Shaun Donovan, to be the secretary of housing in his cabinet. NYT View full entry
Ed Mazria is the first architect to propose how to use all the money the Government will soon be spending on new construction and building upgrades. daily kos | The Plan (pdf) | Previous View full entry
The spring 2009 issue of the digital arts publication Vague Terrain is focused on the representation of urban space. The issue aspires to provide a "... a global index of strategies for abstracting, quantifying and documenting urban life." Urban diagramming, video-based work, theory essays and... View full entry
We've finally added a new member to our t-shirt family! The new series is based on CAD hatch patterns, with all your favorite materials included: concrete, wood, steel, glass, and grass. Each shirt is printed on a material-matching color American Apparel shirt. We've also re-printed some black on... View full entry
Thursday December 11 /.EventsDateModule The Colloquy of Things: Philip Beesley, Marc Bohlen, Natalie Jeremijenko; moderated by Omar Khan , The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue Saturday December 13 /.EventsDateModule Complete Communion Celebration , Los Angeles, CA Wednesday December... View full entry
