Imagine a building made of water. It features liquid curtains for walls--curtains that not only can be programmed to display images or messages but can also sense an approaching object and automatically part to let it through. Enter the Digital Water Pavilion l MIT news View full entry
San Francisco will impose the nation's most environmentally rigorous building standards if officials agree to new recommendations from a task force convened by Mayor Gavin Newsom. Many local governments require publicly funded buildings to follow some environmental guidelines. But San Francisco's... View full entry
The archives of Ray Kappe and John Lautner are going to the Getty, where they can be accessed by the public. Kappe's archives includes models, drawings and notes for 200 modern buildings and projects. LAT View full entry
Stylistically, it's not a contemporary; it's not modern; it's not particularly architectural. Owner-architect says, "I'd go with wacky." LAT View full entry
Coming in two weeks to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts... A collaboration between Artistic Director Frédéric Flamand and famed Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid that synthesizes video, interconnected sculptures and captivating contemporary ballet.Tickets on sale now View full entry
The first images of Zaha Hadid's Serpentine Gallery "pre-pavilion" are now available at Building Design. View full entry
To mark the current building boom, The Times has picked the ten biggest, most significant building projects now under way. All are impressive. Most are gargantuan. A few are ugly as sin. But some are actually rather good. And all are going to change architecture, and the world, as we know it... View full entry
Wired.com shares a story on AFH and the Open Architecture Network, originally printed in Assignment Zero, Wired mag's in-house experiment in [quasi] open-source, pro-am journalism. Wired View full entry
Why are so many architects snapping up 'land' in Second Life, the virtual world with almost eight million residents? Guardian reports l related feature l previous View full entry
In an effort to foster a healthy and critical debate on the state of architectural media today, we upped the ante from the Volume discussion and invited the editors of Verb to join in a similar conversation. GO View full entry
Blair Kamin wrote an article in the Sunday Tribune touching on the topic of modern architecture preservation, or lack there of. It was interesting he brought up Breur's Cleveland trust but failed to mention Gross Point and the successful effort of MAPA to save it even though a member had sent the... View full entry
Husband, father, educator, and architect George Yu has passed away after a long and painful battle with cancer. George is survived by his wife, Carole, and his two daughters, Elena and Dara. George was my mentor and employer for several years, as can say many young architects and designers... View full entry
So, deliciously and unusually, London is host to two remarkably different exhibitions on architecture. At Tate Modern you find the grimy reality of city life, dressed up a bit. At the Design Museum you get the full-on adoration of the architectural superstar, Zaha as the icing on the urban cake... View full entry
in what I am sure is not a coincidence, the new 7 wonders of the world were announced today 7.7.7. CNN | Previous the world's top human-built wonders: • The Great Wall of China • Petra in Jordan • Brazil's statue of Christ the Redeemer • Peru's Machu Picchu • Mexico's... View full entry
If you have a modest budget and desire a nice house, call an architect. However, if you’re a renowned Parisian art dealer, nothing less than organizing an experimental architecture competition will do. Several youngish, arguably underexposed and orthogonally challenged envelope-pushers... View full entry