In a Q&A with the ASLA, Alexandros Washburn (Urban Design Chief, New York City) discusses PlaNYC, similarities between biological change and urban growth, green roofs, and blue roofs. ASLA News View full entry

News The effects of the financial downturn are hitting architects,housing, NYCand even the cutting edge?,Some supply a lifeline, others speculate... DiscussionsA Meta Vegas; On building a synecdocheA report from the frontlines?A green paradox? related School Blogs Read reviews and summaries of... View full entry

Workers renovating a rugby stadium have uncovered a vast complex of tombs beneath Rome that mimic the houses, blocks and streets of a real city, according to officials, who have unveiled a series of new finds. CNN View full entry

In the last eight years, NYC-based SHoP has gone from five graduates of Columbia Architecture School sitting around a kitchen table in a Murray Hill loft to one of the best architecture firms in the world, redesigning the Fashion Institute of Technology, building Google's first-ever ground-up... View full entry

The Guardian reports on the personal and professional separation of UK-based Future Systems. Read View full entry

Scott, at UCLA, has been a busy boy blogging on concrete hovercrafts with a view, Nader Tehrani lectures (did somebody say "Bob's Naked Men Twister"?), and all sorts of crit craziness. Erica, at Waterloo School of Architecture, might get a little squirrely on her second post after jetting around... View full entry

The best seats on Broadway are now absolutely free. After the longest out-of-town tryout in history, a new TKTS booth opened on Thursday in Duffy Square, eight years later and nine times costlier than originally estimated.NYT View full entry

The plunging financial markets this month, followed by unprecedented responses from the federal government, have left many Americans bracing for a deep recession. In the architecture profession, however, the downturn has already arrived, according to a key measure of the market for architectural... View full entry

Thursday October 16 /.EventsDateModule Mobius LA , Los Angeles, CA - West Hollywood Pacific Design Center ACADIA 2008: Silicon + Skin , Minneapolis, MN Hong Kong | New York - Vertical Density | Sustainable Solutions , New York, NY - The Skyscraper Museum ADC Series: Opposites Attract , New York... View full entry

THOMAS SMALL is an accomplished cook, so it’s important for him to try new and exotic ingredients every now and then. When it came to the construction of his eco-friendly house, that’s exactly what his architects gave him. After all, crushed sunflower husks and shredded blue jeans... View full entry

A series of tunnels that run underneath central London and were used for communications during the Cold War have gone on sale for an estimated £5m.BBC Slideshow View full entry

Archinect correspondent Douglas Milburn is transmitting live coverage from the 52nd World Congress of the International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP). The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) is a world-wide network of professional institutions and individuals of... View full entry

Tying in nicely with the recent issue of Architectural Record which examined the growing area of humanitarian design Metropolis Magazine looks at affordable housing, asset-based design, design activism and how to educate the current generation of students who are interested in these issues. View full entry

There are plans to build several hundred new and often magnificent mosques throughout Europe -- particularly in Germany. Architecture has become the field of a fierce ideological battle about the visibility of Europe's 16 million Muslims. der Spiegel | slideshow | prev. View full entry

"New York City’s long-running building boom will peak this year, before new office and residential projects peter out in the coming years and the number of construction jobs falls by almost 30,000 by 2010, according to a report released on Tuesday by the New York Building Congress. " NYT |... View full entry