Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced the “Zero Emissions Building Act of 2007” on March 29. The bill sets benchmarks for energy consumption in federal buildings, leading to carbon neutrality by 2030. AIArchitect | The Angle View full entry
Recently, Rice University held its 2007 De Lange Conference which considered the "traditional concept of a library" with the advent of the internet. A diverse array of topics from the conference now appear online in the form of webcast. Rice University's 2007 De Lange Conference Aims to Describe... View full entry
Mark Wigley, Dean of the GSAPP @ Columbia, talks to BLDGBLOG about Volume magazine, the nature of architectural education, the role of sustainable design at Columbia, whether books by Gilles Deleuze or science fiction novels are more useful to assign in a design studio, the global building boom... View full entry
Catch some coverage of the spectacular construction and engineering feats happening in Seville as the Metro Parasol by Jürgen Mayer goes up. As Urbanity, says this is the project that looks kind of like some fusing shrooms, and will house a variety of programs. Urbanity | Blogobus |... View full entry
Author of science fiction, bold critic of human cruelty, son of an architect, dies at the age of 84. - NYT | L.A. T | Forbes | vonnegut.com View full entry
A Paris residents' association is using the virtual world of Second Life to get the town hall to press on with plans to redevelop a central area of the city. BBC View full entry
New York appraises the values of the 592,130 non-park trees in the five boroughs. NYMag View full entry
Fancy living in a ziggurat? Or a pseudo-medieval castle? Then the Netherlands' defiantly 'unmodern' architecture may fit the bill. By Jonathan Glancey View full entry
A little over a week ago, Laurie, as he was called, passed on at the age of 90. He was considered "a pioneer in building cost-effective and environment-friendly houses for poor Indians by using traditional techniques, materials and crafts such as mud and thatch." For this alone, he will be... View full entry
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) is proposing a resolution that would require interns to document their IDP hours every 6 months, otherwise they will begin to lose credit. This initiative is intending to help keep interns on track towards licensure by requiring... View full entry
A long piece about Rem Koolhaas on Design Observer : "Stunningly Omnipresent Masters Make Minced Meat of Memory." View full entry
Turkish architects Hüseyin Bütüner and Hilmi Gürer, ARTI, re-define mosque design with their Mogan Cami in Ankara. images View full entry
The latest round of best landscape architecture projects has been announced by the ASLA today. Winners include: Reed Hilderbrand, Andrea Cochran, Turenscape and more sublime and amazing places! And even better, Al Gore will be presenting the keynote speech to the ASLA Expo right after they hand... View full entry
A temporary flood sent avatars scrambling for the rooftops in several SecondLife locations, including London, the Netherlands, and Ibiza. David de Rothschild, founder of Adventure Ecology, staged the global warming related flood in the popular virtual world Second Life. Read the National... View full entry
British diplomacy is embracing thrilling new architecture, says Dominic Bradbury. Telegraph View full entry