This house, built with straw in five days, is one of a new crop of home-grown eco-homes. TimesOnline View full entry
The Center for Urban Pedagogy presents a free screening of the film Candyman (1992) in 35mm at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, New York, NY). Chicago activist-organizer J.R. Fleming will introduce the film with a short talk on the spectres haunting public housing today. RSVP to... View full entry
In New York City, in the seven years since the first two Richard Meier buildings began taking shape on the West Side Highway, the glass curtain wall has become, if not a cliché, then a defining element of this decade’s streetscape, just as red brick and limestone defined that of the... View full entry
Good news for the design industry: A U.S. Government Study puts Engineers and Architects at the bottom of the list of most depressed employees based on occupational category :) occupation.pdf View full entry
An egg-shaped recording studio suspended from the top of a 600ft luxury apartment block was unveiled as part of the rock band U2's plans for a skyscraper that will dominate Dublin.telegraph View full entry
October 13, 2007: “For architects and designers, Architectural Digest is the Gold Standard.” A rather sad but ludicrous assertion coming from NPR but evidence nonetheless of a persistent disjunction between architecture and the public understanding. Perhaps agfa8x’s thread The... View full entry
Robert Hughes : "Not all great buildings change the trajectory of other architecture. There are certain masterpieces which don't seem to have any perceptible effect on the way that other buildings are designed and created, and yet despite that they remain unquestionable masterpieces, structures... View full entry
According to a government report available Saturday, the lowest rate of depression, 4.3 per cent, occurred in the job category that covers engineers, architects and surveyors. cbc.ca View full entry
Malcolm Fraser Architects’ transformation of a former Edinburgh hospital site has arguably produced some of the best housing in Scotland | Can a design-led practice appeal to play-it-safe social housing clients? Waugh Thistleton Architects tells PH Plus how it’s done | Two years on... View full entry
Architects and designers lined up with their portfolios in New York to be considered by AD for possible publicity. It is a first public design audition held by a magazine. npr/listen View full entry
Edward (Ted) Cullinan, one of the most highly respected British architects, is the winner of one of architecture's most prestigious prizes, the Royal Gold Medal.RIBA View full entry
Great semi-prefab building by Swiss Architect. "There is a lot to like about Swiss architect Felix Jerusalem's Stroh House. It is built from prefabricated strawboard panels; the panels are protected from the weather by translucent corrugated plastic, a very thin and inexpensive siding that shows... View full entry
Architect Zaha Hadid has presented radical plans for Bilbao's neglected Zorrozaurre peninsula, part of a redevelopment that would see it converted into an island...Guardian l related View full entry
A new book on Aboriginal architecture by anthropologist Paul Memmott impugns the longstanding belief that Australia's indigenous peoples had no capabilities in building sophisticated houses or towns before European settlement. SMH l related paper View full entry
"I wonder if the Bilbao Guggenheim is a work of architecture at all?" - JG Ballard probes the larval stage of a new kind of architecture in The Guardian. View full entry