Monbiot: “Far more damning is a study released last week by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions. In every city it examined, the Olympic games - accidentally or deliberately - have become a catalyst for mass evictions and impoverishment.” Coe: “Every UK region is... View full entry
'the five proposals hold clues to what’s right and wrong about how public space is designed... all of these designs seem strangely subdued. This reflects not only budget restrictions, but also a climate of thinking small. ' Nicolai's favors the team led by West 8 [edited- originally read... View full entry
FDR shaped the Pentagon, Thomas Jefferson oversaw the creation of the UVA campus, even Washington and Jefferson designed their own homes. Why haven't more presidents taken an interest in architecture? Slate View full entry
On the periphery of history in antiquity, there was a land known as Kush. Overshadowed by Egypt, to the north, it was a place of uncharted breadth and depth far up the Nile, a mystery verging on myth. NYT View full entry
Grape seed oil for some cars and trucks, local straw for heating, solar, biomass, and wind for domestic, industrial, and commercial use. Is this a model for the new green world? BBC Video View full entry
“The Olympics is bound to intensify competition for housing, especially with an expanding buy-to-rent sector hyping rents. Locals already squeezed between two of Europe's biggest business districts Docklands and the City of London are going to find themselves surrounded on all sides by... View full entry
“What Rogers deserves most credit for is putting urbanism and design issues on the political agenda. People might have heard of a body called Design for London, which is the new incarnation of the Architecture and Urbanism Unit that Rogers set up in 2001, but who would have guessed that the... View full entry
Margate's Turner Contemporary gallery will now cost £17.5m to build and will be on land instead of offshore, which was the vision of the abandoned plans. Architect David Chipperfield has published a design for the Rendezvous site at Fort Hill. BBC View full entry
Singapore- 23 Amber Road, affectionately known as The Butterfly House has just found itself saved from demolition thanks to the petition efforts by a group of heritage activists. Instead of razing the 95-year-old crescent-shaped two-storey bungalow, its developer, Goodland Group, has agreed to... View full entry
Archigram's Peter Cook has been knighted. View full entry
SCABS ="students considering architect's building syndrome". A timely and straight forward, short but precise essay on recent starchitect/architecture student phenomena by vado retro. Read + discussion/context 1, 2. ~~~ SCABS by vado retro The phenomenon of "typical school time bitching" is a... View full entry
We often forget to look up at the buildings around us as we go about our busy lives, yet architecture is something that usually sparks a reaction in most of us - positive or negative. The Journal | Previous View full entry
At a crossroads of old housing and commercial blight, contemporary design takes root in a wave of new projects. Boston Globe View full entry
The post-war period was a moment of enormous transformation of the Puerto Rican society, landscape and standard of living. One certain t13hman has been scanning slides taken by missionary workers during the 40s-60s. These freeze in time a highly fleeting moment of transition. Very much worth... View full entry
“Where’s the diversity? When these lines all meet in a central station like Times Square, you hit the diversity jackpot. Spilling out of the cars like coins from an old-time slot machine are people from every nation of the world and of every color. The musicians at Times Square... View full entry