Ellis Woodman writes for Building Design. It is hard to believe the archdiocese of Köln could have found an architect better equipped to support its unique mission of constructing a new museum for its collection of religious art which would also accommodate the WWII site ruins within its... View full entry
Heatherwick Studio , leading a team that includes designer Casson Mann, structural engineer Adams Kara Taylor and environmental engineer Atelier Ten has won the competition to design the UK pavilion for Shanghai Expo in 2010. The uniqueness of Heatherwick's concept lies in its integration of... View full entry
talk20 toronto is tonight! here is the lineup: Sarah Dorkenwald, Ruth Spitzer (DORKENWALD SPITZER); Michael Cook (VANISHING POINT); Sandra Wheeler (MATTER PRACTICE); Lauchie Reid, Chris Buchan, Nicholas Aoki, Jacob Whibley, and Stephen Appleby-Barr (TEAM MACHO); Brian Richer, Ryan Taylor... View full entry
We're serving up three fresh new features this week...Neil Denari @ work. - Orhan follows up his popular Thom Mayne feature with an equally enjoyable chat session with our favorite techno-futurist.Nils Norman: Undercover - Heather outs this British artist and introduces us to his subversive... View full entry
Following his successful sale of Case Study House #21, Chicago’s Modernist-design auctioneer Richard Wright is putting another mid-century residence on the block. But instead of a Pierre Koenig icon, the lot up for grabs on October 7 is an arguably kitschy work by Marcel Breuer. ArchRecord... View full entry
Imagine you're the federal official in the Bush administration charged with overseeing the nation's transportation infrastructure. A major bridge collapses on an interstate highway during rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring an additional 100. Whom to blame? How about the nation's bicyclists... View full entry
Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurated La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris. In a ceremony attended by all the big name architects, he said, “I commit myself fully to this mission, to give back the possibility of boldness to... View full entry
September 12, 2007: Columbia student Mark Bearak is really primed about Ed Keller and his Drift Cinema workshop. Check it out and you’ll understand why. It seems man crushes are on the rise this fall. September 11, 2007: A friend I’ve known since elementary school lost her husband on... View full entry
Blacksmith Institute announced the world's worst polluted 10 places. Blacksmith Institute View full entry
“Certainly today one has a hard time imagining an aesthetic, particularly in a field as intricately tied to social intercourse as architecture, existing outside of our hyper-commercialized environment. As soon as a new idea about design emerges, it gets shoehorned into the plans for the... View full entry
Three sites. Three continents. Hundreds of innovative designs. One connected world. → Bustler View full entry
From Metropolis Mag - Philip Nobel first built work casts a slightly different light on criticism. In it he responds to readers who wrote in or commented about his earlier Anti-Starchitect column. Previously | Discuss View full entry
Architect magazine asks our own Quilian Riano a few questions regarding his excellent initiative to get "architecture" properly defined on the web's top information resource. Read View full entry
A modern monument that points up what's wrong with the World Trade Center Memorial. slate.com View full entry
Charles and Ray Eames introduce their brand new Lounge Chair on the Arlene Francis "Home" show, broadcast on NBC in 1956, parts one and two. Just wonderful, and - sadly - unimaginable today... - via core77 & designobserver View full entry