Other then trespassing, there will be no access to James Turrell's Roden Crater till 2011. The NYtimes tries to get a tour and profiles several folks who have gone on the quest to find this masterpiece of earth art. Some of those intrepid souls have posted photos to flikr here Both images by... View full entry
Philip Nobel on post Katrina New Orleans... The bad.. "It looks like parts of Detroit. Or the riot-scarred and abandoned blocks of Newark or Philadelphia." The sad.. "Two years later there wasn’t a single flowerpot, clothesline, or overturned tricycle to indicate the presence of life."... View full entry
Metropolis Mag examines Dubai... Is Dubai a fantasy land fated to as quick of a death as it's rise? Or is it a economic and political experiment in liberalism, the perfect example not of a clash of civilizations but of East meeting West... You tell me.... "Dubai’s success as a global hub is... View full entry
Well, Boing Boing's headline pretty much says it all. View full entry
Robert Campbell waxes poetic in the Boston Globe about what Harvard's new Allston campus could look like if it followed the lead of the signature-architect-happy University of Cincinnati. I am still considering writing him a little note regarding his peculiar jab at Zaha Hadid's CAC in the... View full entry
Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too. Telegraph View full entry
Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy has never lived in the 176 Perry Street triplex he bought for $17.57 million five years ago, but it still may go down as the best home he ever owned. That's because Joy is looking to get a whopping $40 million for the 11,000-square-foot slab of Richard Meier minimalism, a nice profit even after hiring Meier to also design the interior. — Curbed
Curbed shows us what $40mil will get you in NYC's Meier-designed Perry tower. View full entry
The world's best-known avant-garde architects, including Koolhaas, Norman Foster, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Paul Andreu, are transforming Beijing ahead of next year's games. In developed countries, the Olympics can be just another sporting event, albeit a major one. But in China, the... View full entry
Nicolai Ouroussoff: "Writing about your employer’s new building is a tricky task. If I love it, the reader will suspect that I’m currying favor with the man who signs my checks. If I hate it, I’m just flaunting my independence." NYT View full entry
The government wants 3m new homes by 2020. But will they be user-friendly houses or soulless boxes? Patrick Barkham visits two estates less than a mile apart - one branded a failure, the other a resounding success - to discover what works. His conclusion... The focus must be on good design..Which... View full entry
Construction work on J MAYER H's 'ADA 1' office building in Hamburg has been completed. Bustler News View full entry
"tell your douche friends" update: FI$H 2000 becomes a social activist for this cause (from the comments; thanks FI$H! I totally stole this from your del.icio.us bookmarks.) View full entry
Nicolai reviews the newly reopened Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian.. Renovated by Sir Norman Foster the courtyard resides in perhaps the best example of 19th century Greek revival architecture.. Nicolai writes, "This is not Mr. Foster’s most ambitious or complex project, but it is... View full entry
It occured to me that I could use this opportunity (cheers, Orhan) to do something off the wall and novel, maybe a diary sort of thing, or maybe something mildly perverse; linking only to threads touched by our favorite Dane; or linking only to news and views outside the regular archinect world... View full entry
Had a great time in Dallas reviewing some brilliant entries at this year's KROB Delineation Competition. Congratulations to all the winners--see all of them here. View full entry