WPS1.org will be broadcasting directly from 52nd Annual Venice Biennale. The station will broadcast six full days, 24 hours a day from 4-10 June—on the Web and on local FM in Venice. Live programs that air in the middle of the night in the US and other time zones will be automatically... View full entry
“Morris, a British photographer whose work centers on the built environment, spent several months traveling to remote villages and desert communities to photograph these organically shaped, labor-intensive adobe structures, creating both a typological record of regional adobe construction... View full entry
“Spreading like a virus, the message was repeated more than 1 million times, environmentalists said, until it had reached practically everyone in Xiamen, a city of 1.5 million people in southeastern China known for its clean air and scenic views. It also spread beyond cellphones, splashed... View full entry
“The audible attributes of physical space have always contributed to the fabric of human culture, as demonstrated by prehistoric multimedia cave paintings, classical Greek open-air theaters, Gothic cathedrals, acoustic geography of French villages, modern music reproduction, and virtual... View full entry
In its place comes a planned $2 billion Coney Island makeover, a proposal to convert the once-seedy stretch of Brooklyn into a year-round stop with a swanky Vegas-style hotel and glitzy indoor attractions. USA Today View full entry
Most Americans fly or drive across the country's vast distances. Bus travel is cheaper and people who are poor often go Greyhound. The company boasts 16,000 daily departures across North America. Reuters View full entry
According to the BBC, the Pope will get a new solar roof for his auditorium after the current cement roof has deteriorated next year, and voicing his criticism of "the unbalanced use of energy" in the world. View full entry
The controversial white block of a building is still shrouded in dark netting. The hard-hatted men perched on the surrounding scaffolding won’t wrap up their work until the middle of next year. But behind the scrim, the “lollipop” building at 2 Columbus Circle is steadily... View full entry
John King takes a look at a little somewhat off the radar design competition going on right now in San Francisco for establishing some new groovy bus shelters. "Sure, towers get the attention and the postcard space. But San Francisco is defined by ground-level urbanity. Sidewalks, trees... View full entry
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects has been selected for U of Chicago's new Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts. | playbill | press release l prev View full entry
..,but critics immediately condemned it as "hideous" and a waste of money. yahoo/AP View full entry
The House Committee on Science and Technology’s Research and Science Education subcommittee began consideration of H.R. 1716, The Green Energy Education Act. Under this measure, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation would provide grants to colleges and universities to... View full entry
A Fort Lauderdale developer is set to demolish the Americana Motor Inn, a 4,000-square-foot mid-Sixties icon and a rare hyperbolic paraboloid concrete wonder of Miami Modern design. Slatin Report View full entry
Hirst faces his own mortality with clichés and a death wish. “Artist Damien Hirst has unveiled a diamond-encrusted human skull worth £50m - said to be the most expensive piece of contemporary art.” “I just want to celebrate life by saying to hell with death,' said... View full entry
Rep. Nick Rahall (D), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, is pushing legislation that would more strictly regulate wind energy to protect birds, bats from dying, when they fly into the giant turbines. The American Wind Energy Association said the plan could "essentially outlaw" the... View full entry