Canada Post is commemorating the centennial of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) by issuing a series of postage stamps featuring four noted Canadian architects... The four masterworks chosen to grace these stamps are signature pieces by architects who have received the RAIC gold... View full entry
Beijing's mayor has expressed disapproval of outdoor advertisements that promote luxury and indulgence, for fear they would escalate hostility between the rich and the poor. BB View full entry
Jan Kaplicky responds to criticism from Czech President over his National Library nose-goblin building. | ceske View full entry
Professor Sir Colin Wilson, who taught architecture at Cambridge University, passed away on Monday. He was known for the British Museum and Liverpool's Civic Centre among many other projects. | bbc View full entry
Air pollution is turning the Taj Mahal, India's famed white-marble monument to love, a decidedly unromantic yellow. But as with many aging beauties, a therapeutic mud pack has been recommended to restore its natural allure.IHT View full entry
"Green building" is the feel-good trend of the moment. Get some low-VOC paint, linoleum, wheatboard cabinets, a garden gate out of Volvo parts, and presto!greenness is achieved. The reality is far more complicated. The "easy" choices are a cop-out -- not that you shouldn't do them -- but they... View full entry
Stepping into the large shoes of Philip Johnson, the founding curator of MoMA’s architecture department, might have seemed challenge enough for Barry Bergdoll, who took on the position in January. But he also had to contend with a weighty anniversary: the department turns 75 this year. NYT... View full entry
Renzo does SF. "Work crews are about to start planting the roof of the new California Academy of Sciences museum in Golden Gate Park -- an architectural capstone that also qualifies as one of the world's most ambitious biodiversity experiments." Seems like a slightly grandiose statement but... View full entry
German design magazine Form is celebrating its 50th birthday by putting its entire archive of back issues online. The archive contains every issue published since 1957. via View full entry
"Either we can build upwards -- like, say, in Japan, where they have all these overpasses. But that would mean covering the landscape with triple-level roads. The other option is to build underground. And in that way you don't change the face of Moscow, which is of historical importance to the... View full entry
Lord Foster, perhaps taking notes from his fellow British architect Will Alsop, has sold major a stake in the architectural firm which bares his name. Bloomberg l Channel 4 View full entry
I haven't been able to uncover any renderings of the design yet, but here are two articles describing the design. "The new museum will look something like a metal box sitting on a glass pedestal."St. Pete Times | Tampa Trib View full entry
Kisho Kurokawa's iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower is scheduled to be demolished and replaced by a new 14-story tower. The Metabolist capsule building consists of 140 units attached to a central core, articulating the ideology behind the Metabolist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which envisioned... View full entry
Foster + Partners says the walled city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi will be the world's first zero-carbon and zero-waste city... Building.co.uk View full entry
David Fisher’s quixotic tour to sell dynamic architecture beyond Dubai doesn’t impress many in Chicago. “Chicago is different, a tough-guy town where the stark rectangles of the street grid extend upward to the skyline and such boxy behemoths as Sears Tower. For years, its... View full entry