Hundreds of David Adjaye's 6 x 9 photographs wallpaper the walls of the ground floor of Gund Hall at Harvard. read > View full entry
From May 29 to June 2, 2007, New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture will be hosting Postopolis!, a celebration of architecture blogs – featuring the writers of City of Sound, Inhabitat, BLDGBLOG, and Subtopia. Expect "a five-day event of near-continuous conversation about... View full entry
Annoyed by the tangle of power cords under your desk? A sheet of plastic invented by researchers in Japan could one day make for tables and walls that power devices placed on them — without any need for wires or plugs. Nature l via View full entry
Philip Johnson's Glass House, one of the most celebrated modernist buildings of the 20th century, along with the rest of the architectural wonderland that was his 47-acre estate in New Canaan finally opened to the public yesterday. USAToday l Advocate View full entry
The Brooklyn Rail has a nice article on the history and situation of the embattled community of Starrett City. What is the future of the city without low income housing? BR l previous View full entry
Zaha Hadid and Thomas Heatherwick have won separate commissions in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Hadid has been signed up to design a 225m tower for Socar, the state oil company, and Heatherwick has been asked to design a peace monument by the Azerbaijani government. Building View full entry
Read about the transformation of the abandoned 1.45-mile, 6.7-square-acre, 30-foot-high former elevated railway in New York's West Chelsea. The area - long subject to heated controversy - has recently attracted celebrity sponsorship, as well as projects by Jean Nouvel, Della Valle Bernheimer and... View full entry
With a colossal scale, comparable to that of China’s Three Gorges Dam, Pakistan’s 2016 Water Vision seals its pact with modernity. The centerpiece of this vision is the Bhasha-Diamer dam, destined to inundate 32 villages and countless vestiges of ancient civilizations - in the form of... View full entry
On today's Morning Edition, from NPR news, Susan Stamberg profiles Thom Mayne and his new 68-story Phare Tower for La Defense in Paris. Mayne gets spooked when Stamberg calls his tower "beautiful". View full entry
The New York Times reports today on what it calls the "walls of war - the architecture of long struggle. Hard to erect, harder to maintain, they are never stronger than the political skill of their designers." In other words, borders are fortifying all over the world: NYTimes. But if you're... View full entry
Who would have guessed when a couple of months ago Jacques Herzog mentioned in an interview that his practice was designing a sports related project not connected to the Olympics , that the project would be a football ground for a mid-table premiership club. I think that this news is fantastic... View full entry
The chief architect working on the Sagrada Familia Cathedral leads protests over Barcelona's plans to build a bullet train tunnel less than 2 meters from Gaudi's unfinished masterpiece. guardian View full entry
Dwell Magazine has been receiving a lot of criticism for undervaluing the role of design in the sponsorship of the The Infinity Design Challenge: San Francisco competition. Apparently, the goal is to help the developers and architects design a luxury apartment. Prize for the winners: nothing... View full entry
The Serpentine Gallery has images of the collaboration pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen's 2007 Pavilion. via l previous View full entry
Some striking news about the bees...and while bee die-offs are not new, the current one seems to have scientists stumped and worried. (NYT) Interestingly enough, David Byrne has some potent thoughts: basically, no pollen=no life, but cross-pollination also means a threat to agri-business... View full entry