Thirteen of the world's top architectural practices are to enter an international design competition, launched to secure an inspirational concept for the planned Sheikh Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi. AME | related View full entry
Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni will officiate at the first public viewing of Rome Reborn 1.0, a 10-year project based at the University of Virginia and begun at the University of California, Los Angeles to use advanced technology to digitally rebuild ancient Rome. The event took place earlier today... View full entry
Haaretz - About 200 British and Israeli architects and academics, including people of international renown, have signed a manifesto initiated by the British organization Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine, which calls on Israeli architects and planners to put an end to being... View full entry
What will life be like for Londoners in 2012? Well hopefully the Olympic logo doesn't give us any indication. But the Architecture Foundation will present 5 major debates form the leading voices from architecture, design, business, culture, and politics to debate what kind of city they want to... View full entry
think with the senses - feel with the mind art in the present tense. But even in the midst of the invasion of the art people, that strange condition that afflicts this city every two years, it is remarkably quiet here. (My only complaints so far: too many cafe-side string quartets playing... View full entry
The designers of the controversial London Olympics logo claim that they intended it as only the first part of an "evolving branding package." The chunky, geometric shapes spelling out the date 2012 are supposed to be a "blank canvas" that will be filled with diverse images, photographs and... View full entry
The NYTimes tells us today that "sophisticated smart-home technology is increasingly available and includes automation systems that allow residents to control lighting, raise and lower window shades and change a room’s climate, via computers." Read mo' @ that newspaper we call The New York... View full entry
With its soaring but impossibly slender columns and masonry that resembles heavy frosting, Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished masterwork La Sagrada Familia seems as if it might suddenly collapse on itself, like a surreal cake. But the architect in charge of efforts to complete the church says... View full entry
Most significant museum design in the last decade? NPR Story and Critique / Local Thoughts View full entry
An eight-foot aluminium box is being touted as the solution to the housing shortage. But what's it like to sleep, eat, wash and entertain in one? BBC View full entry
While the name "the Bird's Nest" conjures up images of China, critics say the stadium doesn’t. There’s no trace of Chinese culture in the design, and shouldn’t such a prestigious job have gone to a Chinese architect? Increasing number of Beijing residents are worrying about... View full entry
"I would like to see our renovated Headquarters complex eventually become a globally acclaimed model of efficient use of energy and resources," said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ENS View full entry
Watch and listen to Lord Rogers as he speaks about the "People's Palace", the future of cities, and some of his other work and writings. PBS View full entry
Holy cow: "Ten million gallons of toxic gunk trapped in the Brooklyn aquifer is starting to creep toward the surface." The "toxic gunk" is actually a "supertanker's worth" of "gasoline, solvents, and associated poisons," and it was "dumped by oil companies" over the last 100 years. It's now... View full entry
A La Times reporter writes about her experiences reporting on Saudi Arabia. Women are at best second class citizens. They have their own segregated spaces like blacks in the Old South, can't vote can't drive. Yet, even she feels naked without the abaya, after leaving. latimes View full entry