Wired looks at some recent compact housing designs.. "The world is getting hotter and more crowded every day, and modular, prefab housing is just what the doctor ordered. When you go small, it's not just about energy efficiency and carbon footprints -- it's also about being strange, cool and... View full entry
In December the architectural team of Wojciech Kakowski, Marcin Mostafa, Natalia Paszkowska was announced as the winner of the design for the Polish Pavilion for EXPO 2012 in Shanghai. Go to Bustler for more info and lots of images View full entry
Though slightly hungover, it's clear in the New Year that Archinect is already making good on those loose commitments to generalized self-improvement we call high-resolutions.Resolve some issues. Or, just table them.Make some amends. Even with thieves. Size yourself up. Are you an 8-1/2x... View full entry
ie; #1 Of the three billion people who live in urban settings, an estimated one billion live in slums. WHO View full entry
Faculty members Ramiro Diaz-Granandos and Heather Flood, partners F-lab, designed the new SCI-Arc boardroom table, CHUB. Serving as the “central hub” of SCI-Arc, the table engages the broad social and cultural demands of the school by behaving as an infrastructural organism that can... View full entry
A post-n-beam progressive, Wayne R Williams, FAIA died on December 28th at 88 years old. A regular subject of Julius Schulman's lens, the USC grad left his mark across the US in designing private residences, schools, community buildings, and recreational facilities. ARWilliams and Smith’s... View full entry
Dutch Tom , aka Tom van Dillen, is a photographer in China who has been capturing every step of OMA's amazing CCTV Headquarters in Beijing. Tom's Flickr stream | Discuss View full entry
Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has opened what it says is the world's tallest elevator testing tower. bbc | mitsubishi elevator View full entry
The Grosse Pointe Public Library had its focus on the future during 2007. Beth Quinn of the Grosse Pointe News provides a brief overview of the activity surrounding the library this past year. GPN | related feature 1 | 2 View full entry
The body heat from hundreds of thousands of people who pass through the Stockholm Central Station each day will be used to heat a new office building nearby. AFP View full entry
Kristi Cameron interviews Peter Barfoed principal for one of a handful of architecture firms in Greenland. Topics covered include; how climate change could affect the growth of Greenland, urban planning in the far north and the current state of architecture in Greenland.Metropolis Mag View full entry
... the High Line has been something quite different, a flaking, rusting industrial ruin that needed to be transformed to match the digital renderings. And someone has been doing all that work. So right now the High Line is one hairy construction site. NYtimes | slide show View full entry
The public perceives architecture as a career for creative, free spirits who nonetheless earn good money while designing cool new buildings. Alas, as usual, there's a Grand Canyon of difference between the screen and reality. US News | Components of USNews Top 31 Careers View full entry
Paris, yes Paris, and Berlin have banned smoking from cafes, leading to some very curious interventions by competitive proprietors. (pic after the jump). | bbcMichael Windisch has installed a "smoking point" in his restaurant View full entry
Ettore Sottsass, one of the most famous Italian designer, died at his home in Milan yesterday at the age of 90. He was an architect, an urbanist and the founder of the Memphis Group. For a retrospective of his works, a couple of years ago in Milan, see the exhibition) he said: "I would like the... View full entry