Thursday November 13 /.EventsDateModule ‘Superficial Superglow: Channeling The Stars’, Presentation and Discussion , Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA Great Streets for Great Cities , San Francisco, CA Friday November 14 /.EventsDateModule UVa School of... View full entry
The AIA has just released survey results showing that 2008 recorded all-time high salaries for architects. Unfortunately these results were tallied prior to the "change" in the economy. Chicago Tribune | Related: Archinect Salary Poll, Checking the Pulse of the Architecture Industry View full entry
For the 3rd year in a row Archinect has co-sponsored the Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition (KRob). Last week Orhan, and the rest of the jury, convened in Dallas to review the entries. View the winners now on Bustler | KRob View full entry
El Croquis is now offering it's magazine in digital format. Launch specials on downloads of the latest issues featuring Siza and SANAA are now available for €7-9. El Croquis View full entry
The old Art & Architecture building probably would have been demolished long ago if razing it were not cost-prohibitive. But that prospect was unthinkable on Saturday to the 600 people who gathered for the building’s official rechristening. Yale Daily View full entry
The Architectural League announces that the third in its nine-part series of pamphlets exploring the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism is now available. A special double issue on the theme Situated Advocacy, featuring the essays: "Community Wireless Networks as... View full entry
Steve Rose explores the architecture of Bond films. From Venetian palazzos to fantastical submersible lairs, the buildings in Bond films dazzle - what a shame they get blown to smithereens. Read and Slideshow For example The Elrod House Or from the Quantum of Solace The "Residencia" at the... View full entry
The New York Times interviews Ada Louise Huxtable, "the dean of American architectural criticism." | NYT View full entry
Because of the financial crisis, plans for a controversial skyscraper that would have towered over St. Petersburg’s low-slung Baroque skyline have been delayed and — preservationists, architects and many residents fervently hope — may never be carried out.NYT View full entry
Plataforma Arq points out that Ábalos & Herreros have announced their split via the web. After 20 years of a collaboration that has helped define the post-Franco Spanish wave, two firms emerge: herreros | abalos-sentkiewicz View full entry
Some unauthorized images of the Kunsthaus extension in Zurich by David Chipperfield Architects have "leaked" and were published today. See them here | previous postMore images and plans are expected to be published in December. View full entry
Architecture and politics have a long and sordid relationship. It has been said that all architecture is political. Typically architecture serves a subservient role in this relationship by merely representing the politics of the building’s patron—what Deyan Sudjic has described as the... View full entry
The underground nuclear missile bases and silos are still out there in Kansas. Many of them are now empty – but not for long. Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky visits a peace activist who is turning decommissioned nuclear missile bases and silos into family homes. Studio 360 (Audio) |... View full entry
For those of you who went to SCI-Arc, you will surely remember academic counselor Bill Simonian. Bill was one of the original members of the group that left Cal Poly Pamona in '72 to start the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Last year he retired from his position of 34 years, but... View full entry
In my recent visit to Dallas Center for the Performing Arts under construction, by the way of KRob, I saw Wyly Theatre by REX/OMA. I photographed REX/OMA's beautifully executed models of the project and the building in progress, ready for its tube like variegated aluminum extrusion screen, in... View full entry
