Libeskind's polarizing Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto opens June 2, 2007. | globemail | thestar | bldg | TOist (pics) | blum View full entry
Sweden's virtual embassy in Second Life. Press conference with the foreign minister of Sweden opening the the building in Second life, ribbon cutting included. >Go now View full entry
Los Angeles leaders are pinning their hopes on smart growth, the utopian planning vision that solves all the problems. Politicians, planners, developers and their architects say smart growth, sometimes described as “new urbanism,” will relieve the region’s housing shortage... View full entry
India's richest man decides to build a 60 floor single family home for his family in Mumbai. View full entry
Paul Hyett believes architects should make a stand but Robert Adam argues that taking politics into the profession is unwise. Building Design View full entry
The Van Alen Institute announced the recipients of the first annual New York Prize Fellowships. Curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist has been awarded the 2007–2008 New York Prize Senior Fellowship. Additionally, five New York Prize early to mid-career fellowships were awarded through a competitive... View full entry
“This gradually unfolding sense of discovery, which emphasizes the movement of the viewer through space rather than a single "wow" image, stems from an axiom Holl learned as a student: A building should be a lot more when you go into it than when you first look at it…One caveat: With... View full entry
“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 "partners... View full entry
“Fuck Frank Gehry” shirts made in brown with orange lettering and in navy blue with silver lettering. "I decided it was funny, and I put it on. And I wore it to the office, and everybody got a kick out of that, and then I wore it to the gym”, Mr. Gehry said. New Yorker l buy View full entry
I'll point you to two articles in today's nyTimes. Regular Archinect readers and AFH-heads are pretty familiar with some of the items in the current Cooper Hewitt show on design for the "other 90 %," but this short read will refresh your encyclopedic mind (looks like it hit #1 in the 'most... View full entry
Roswell plans UFO theme park. CNN, via Boing Boing. View full entry
Via This Modern World, renderings of the new American embassy in Baghdad (including huge swimming pool), currently under construction. link View full entry
Lordy lordy, look whos 40: Mies's Toronto Dominion Centre. | thestar View full entry
You know it! Tomorrow Postopolis kicks off. Everyone's looking good! If you can't be in NYC, I would pay attention to the featured blogs but also catch some vids from Storefront on Youtube View full entry
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, which is housed in Andrew Carnegie’s 64-room mansion on Fifth Avenue and offers a $250 red chrome piggy bank in its gift shop, is honoring inventors dedicated to “the other 90 percent,” particularly the billions of people living on less... View full entry