Our bloggers have been busy lately, and have some exciting stuff to share with us... Nick, at UC Berkeley, blogs, phlogs, and vlogs from Renzo Piano's lecture inside of the just-opened California Academy of Sciences! Scott, at UCLA, takes us along on a tour of LA's architecture. Meredith, at... View full entry

The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is planning to go cap-in-hand to the Chinese government after the credit crunch and falling house prices left a £250m hole in funding for the 2012 Olympics. In return, he plans to offer Beijing a share in a university that could one day be based in the... View full entry

John Mooallem profiles the work of Brad Guy, president of the Building Materials Reuse Association, a nonprofit in Pittsburgh that supports the fledgling deconstruction industry. NYT Construction waste, either from the construction or demolition phase of a building's life is estimated to account... View full entry

Nicolai Ouroussoff explores ten buildings that have a traumatic effect on New York City. The candidates either exhibit a total disregard for their surrounding context or destroy a beloved vista. Removing them would make room for the spirit to breathe again and open up new imaginative... View full entry

Today South African firm MMA scoops the $100,000 Currystone Prize for their innovative low income housing in Cape Town. Unfortunately the United States government had refused Luyanda Mpahlwa a visa to attend todays award ceremony. The reason - he had been imprisoned for his anti-apartheid work in... View full entry

Well almost. Newsweeks' architectural critic Cathleen McGuigan makes the argument that most green buildings are ugly and only a few should be deemed as well designed. Naturally Renzo Piano gets a snuggly hug with his National Academy of Sciences. In the 'oh really' corner the original NOLA... View full entry

Hot on the heels of the NY tower Hdm release images of their 180 to 211m (depending on sources) office and retail tower for paris. View full entry

And another very successful Archinect school blogger this week: Tri (Tim) Quang Do - who's been blogging from the studios of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) since 2006 - has been honored with the Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship. Way to go, Tim! Bustler View full entry

Yesterday, Frank Gehry and Utah Flash owner Brandt Andersen teamed up at the Flash Factory to unveil final plans for the shape of the Lehi development. DN | prev. View full entry

Thursday September 25 /.EventsDateModule Work That Endures: Power to the People Keeping Places Alive , Québec City, Canada Missions in Architecture: 4. Laboratory-Talk: Mosques, Migration and Myths , Berlin, Germany Positioning the City: a live talk show about branding New York City , Manhattan... View full entry

Slate architecture critic, and Penn professor, Witold Rybcynski gives a lukewarm review of the new Pentagon Memorial designed by fellow Penn faculty Keith Kaseman and Julie Beckman. View full entry

JDS and Bjarke Ingels received the Danish TRÆPRISEN 2008 award for their conceptual and effective use of wood on the 'MAR_maritime youth house project' and the 'VM_VM Houses'. Bustler View full entry

TreeHugger profiles eleven buildings from across the globe that integrate green walls, roofs or other living and green elements into their structure.Treehugger View full entry

Photovoltaic panels are the latest building material to gain a black market. NYTimes View full entry

We just posted a new ShowCase feature - Towards Paradise, a landscape installation sited at the end of the Arsenale, by Gustafson Porter (London) and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle), for the Venice Biennale. View full entry