MY PLAYGROUND, a film by Kaspar Astrup Schröder, is a film about movement, tricking, freerunning and parkour in the urban space... The film will feature parkour, freerunning and tricking by freerunners TEAM JIYO. It will also feature interviews with urban planners, local politicians... View full entry
The Guggenheim Museum has appointed David van der Leer the museum's new assistant curator of architecture and design. ArtInfo View full entry
Fast Company reports from Greenbuild '08 where Oakland-based activist Van Jones predicts opportunities for new "green jobs" in the construction industry. View full entry
There is nothing timid about the ambitions of the new Museum of Islamic Art that opens [in Qatar] next week. Rising on its own island just off the city’s newly developed waterfront corniche, it is the centerpiece of an enormous effort to transform Qatar into an arts destination. Designed by... View full entry
On giant piles of trash left by a generation of New Yorkers, landscape architect James Corner is building a park that has the power to change the way we see the past and the future of the city.Read View full entry
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“What we are going to straighten out with this renovation are the accretions of 60 years of the building being used without the right discipline,” said Mr. Adlerstein, a Brooklyn-born architect who has previously tackled historic sites like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty... View full entry
The crowd and speakers seemed sober and realistic, and expressed strongly that the combination of new political leadership, and an intertwining of market breakdown and energy crisis would give environmental design its best shot yet. Fast Company View full entry
Professor George Curry of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) was named 2008 New York Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. SUNY View full entry
The Guardian's Steve Rose reports on the slowing down of development in the often-thought-invincible Dubai. "Projects are being pulled left right and centre," he said. "Unless they've been funded by a sovereign wealth fund, they're being pulled. A lot of things have to be redesigned more cheaply... View full entry
Mark Collins of Proxy published a post on _urb_ called Iteration City that discusses bottom up design processes, architecture as an informational medium, and slum 'upgrading' in relation to the work and research they are doing with Urban Think Tank Tank and Slum Lab in the ‘critical urban... View full entry
Cameron Sinclair, of AFH and Archinect, will be joined by Cameron Diaz tonight on the Sundance Channel at 10pm. More info View full entry
Google has partnered with LIFE Magazine to make publicly available the entire archive of historic photography. In high resolution no less! Check it out View full entry
Thursday November 20 /.EventsDateModule Current Work: Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wolf D. Prix; introduced and moderated by Thom Mayne , The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th St. DESIGN DIALOGUES , Los Angeles, CA Urban Waterfronts 26: Countless Opportunities , Chicago, Illinois Seeing Greene &... View full entry
Hundreds of new big-box buildings are built each year—and hundreds are vacated. What happens to big-box buildings when a retailer abandons them? Slate View full entry
