A handmade wood and fiberglass submarine built by artist Philip "Duke" Riley was found today in Buttermilk Channel off Red Hook in Brooklyn. "It does not pose any terrorist threat. ... We can best summarize today's incident as marine mischief," police chief Kelly said. eyewitness news View full entry
Koolhaas: "It is not always clear whether we are using our position to engage in an intellectual discourse or an incredible ego free-for-all. Unfortunately, we have not been able to provide any dignity to the profession due to our complete technical inability to conquer market pressures and our... View full entry
Not since the days of Robert Moses has New York been in the process of such a radical physical transformation and at such a breakneck pace. Here, in words and images, is bird's-eye view of some of the projects that will change the way you think about the city. The Architect's Newspaper View full entry
Trustees announced today that the New Museum, one of the nation’s leading showcases for the art of our time, will open its much-anticipated new building on the Bowery to the public on Saturday, December 1, 2007 with 30 hours of continuous free admission to the public. ArtDaily | previously... View full entry
Charles Simic , the Pulitzer prize-winning poet who emigrated to the US from Yugoslavia aged 16 and learned English (three years younger than yours truly, I feel his accomplishment), has been named as his adopted country's new poet laureate. Simic will be the 15th poet to hold the title of US... View full entry
The National Charrette Institute (NCI) has received matching funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to create two educational videos on community design charrettes. Both videos will be distributed on one DVD... The first is a 10-minute overview of the process to gain the interest of... View full entry
“Uzbekistan was the beneficiary of one of the most remarkable swindles in history, in which the Uzbek leadership in this period massively falsified cotton records in their reports to the Kremlin and thus got revenues from the central government in amounts much greater than it should have... View full entry
A nonprofit group brings pro bono architects to those stranded without a home. nytimes View full entry
“Lord Norman Foster will speak at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) presented by Masdar, 21-23 January 2008, Abu Dhabi. The world-leading architect of Foster & Partners will present a keynote speech on the subject of sustainable architecture of the future, with insights into the... View full entry
Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman, who died hours apart on Monday, represented the twin poles of depressive art cinema. Both were pessimistic existentialists, but while Antonioni wrestled with the Big Questions, he never deigned to answer them. His films were as brooding as Bergman's, but... View full entry
Superstar British architect to unveil new project next week. globe&mail View full entry
As he gets closer to his 100th birthday, the Guardian looks back at Oscar Niemeyer's career. Do not count on him slowing down, not only did he recently remarry but he is also looking into a commission in Angola. View full entry
Two graduate students at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning want to harvest the energy of human movement in urban settings, like commuters in a train station or fans at a concert... The so-called "Crowd Farm," as envisioned by James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, both M.Arch candidates... View full entry
Leeser Architecture wins competition for World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in Siberia. Bustler View full entry
"How did an 1885 flood of little consequence become an epidemic that 'killed' 90,000 Chicagoans? The answer, at least in part, can be traced to efforts by the Metropolitan Sanitary District, beginning in the mid-1950s, to build public support for a massive flood-control project by writing... View full entry