Foster + Partners presented their designs on Monday to the Yale community for the new School of Management building. Sir Norman Foster graduated from Yale in 1962. Images and info at Yale.edu, Via View full entry

NPR profiles Tyson's Corner, VA, which county planners and urbanists intend to transform over the next 30 years into a denser, walkable community. Included is Robert Siegel's hazardous and yet familiar stroll through an area that was built not for strolls, but for cars. View full entry

It may seem low on anyone's list of priorities at this moment of political change and economic crisis, but now that Ed Stone's little seraglio has been converted into the new home of the Museum of Arts and Design and the reviews have set some kind of record for irresponsible over-the-top... View full entry

China is frenetically searching for a CCTV nickname. One name in the running, recently pushed and illustrated by the Shanghai Press, is "The Big Underpants Building". MovingCities adds in "Mocking the Monument" some last Sunday's snapshots of CCTV to the story. View full entry

Nick Paumgarten wonders what will NYC will look like as a result of the economic downturn. Specifically, he offers some suggestions on how the empty pits (voids left over from the buildings that won't be built) can be re-purposed. Swimming pools, or debtors prisons anyone?The New Yorker via... View full entry

Last weekend I helped my friend Glen Small store his stuff in a rented garage. Glen is 75 y.o., dissed by starstruck American architectural realm and moved to Nicaragua permanently (as of today). more ************************ Glen Small moves to Nicaragua Last weekend I helped my friend Glen... View full entry

We've set up a new section called ArchMart to help our community connect with each other. Consider it a mini-Craigslist, specifically for architects and designers. Our industry is in the middle of a transitional period and we'd like to help by offering our members a place to share information... View full entry

The annual year end list madness begins. Interestingly, this list includes proposed but unbuilt designs, restorations, bike racks and civic infrastructure.The Top Ten Designs View full entry

Today we examine what people had to say....News"The pilgrimage is something that needs be realized as much as the architecture""Just need a little brain salad surgery ...""there should be a building among a '00s top five that would exemplify the building-as-landscape type that has developed over... View full entry

Obama is increasingly talking about upgrading and adding to the Government's building stock. One can only hope that as this plan is developed they include innovative designers from all fields in this ambitious plan. Then again, maybe we can demand it. View full entry

I just heard the first installment in a Speaking of Faith ongoing series on The Ethics of Aid. Interested and looking around their site I found a couple of other interviews and radio features that may be of interest to designers including: -An in-depth look at Auburn's Rural Studio design program... View full entry

Sami Angawi, an expert Saudi architect, said he was “surprised and upset” to learn of confidential plans, leaked last week, in which the holiest Islamic city would be redesigned by “outsiders.” Times View full entry

Spanish intellectuals are calling the efforts to finish Gaudi's cathedral to be a disaster. artinfo View full entry

FOA has resigned from the Institute of Legal Medicine in Madrid’s City of Justice due to insufficient levels of funding for the project. (Official statement continued after the jump...) The new City of Justice in Madrid is an urban development project initiated by the Madrid Regional... View full entry

The AIA Board of Directors voted today to award the 2009 AIA Gold Medal to Australian architect Glenn Marcus Murcutt, Hon. FAIA. Murcutt was recognized by the AIA Board in large part for the depth of his work and the breadth of his influence. Bustler View full entry