America has missed an opportunity to reimagine an urban area at a time when China has proved that no project is impossible. NYT View full entry

If you want to build your knowledge about architecture, these ten lesser-known facts should help to provide a solid foundation. [...] 2. Brunelleschi was the first 'starchitect' Containing four million bricks and weighing 37,000 tonnes, the dome of Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral is a... View full entry

For years, wind-farm projects have stalled in the face of local political opposition. Then an entrepreneur named Peter Mandelstam came up with a new and energizing approach. NYT View full entry

Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture responded to the job of adding a 24-story mini-me to Cetra/Ruddy's 60-story One Madison Park (OMP) on 23rd Street with their usual cool contrarianism. Koolhaas had no interest, according to OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu, in adding "another... View full entry

Yesterday, the Venice biennal, directed by Aaron Betsky, was unveiled. The title of this edition is "Out There: Architecture Beyond Building". You can find some pics here & here. View full entry

For two centuries we’ve been obsessed with destroying New York. Architectural historian MAX PAGE explains how even after the events of 9/11, we continue to fantasize about the city’s end as a way of celebration.NY Press View full entry

While the Seattle Times talks with Rem Koolhaas, the SeattlePI spends A moment with ... Joshua Prince-Ramus. Not only was Prince-Rumus the partner in charge of the Seattle Central Library project by OMA, his mother was the one who urged him to submit designs for the library competition the day... View full entry

Reed Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture: is it modern, or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two leading practices -- and a blistering critique of the 9/11 planning process. TED Talks View full entry

It's Thursday so that means it's time for Bustler's weekly roundup of architecture/design events. This week features a selection of happenings in Tokyo, London, New York, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Seattle, Yokohama, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Berlin, Toronto, and a bunch of events at the Venice... View full entry

Candace, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, thinks her brain is bigger and can't wait to get her little hands on the laser cutter. Mustafa, at Architectural Association, DRL, went down to Bedford Square at midnight and enjoyed the many midnight moods of the DRL pavilion. Emily can't decide... View full entry

They can be seen everywhere talking on their phones, texting their friends, listening to their iPods, and often doing all of these things simultaneously. They are the Millennials, also known as Generation Y, and they are beginning to make their presence felt in the workplace. Born between... View full entry

Kyle, at Yale School of Architecture, shares some impressive images with us from his first project this semester 'Skins and Sculls'. Max looks back at a good summer in Chicago and gets ready to board the airplane that takes him to further grad school adventures in Japan at the Tokyo Institute of... View full entry

ArchRecord's annual survey of remarkable interiors showcases 14 projects for which materials matter and striking details are paired with impeccable execution (including the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center by Lyn Rice Architects, posted previously). View full entry

As this last great building boom winds down, New York Magazine's architecture critic asks: Does the new see-through city look better or worse than the one it replaced? A building-by-building survey. NYMag View full entry

Angela Mitropoulos and Archinect's own Bryan Finoki explore contemporary borderlands within the context of seven technologies or conditions of control and exclusion. They are; Superfluidity, Extraterritory, Thresh/hold, Recognition, Preemption, Futurecloser, Underneath. For more see, Mute Magazine View full entry