Yesterday, the Governor of Kaohsiung, Taiwan announced that Mecanoo made the winning design for the city's National Performing Arts Center. Via Architectenweb. View full entry
The New York Times covers Ball Nogues' PS1 victory: “We’re scrappy,” Mr. Nogues said. Mr. Ball added, “And we’re really poor.” But they’re not complaining. | NYT l related l discussion View full entry
A Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, Damien Hirst in Dubai: the Daily Telegraph reports on a new hunger for art. View full entry
A familiar name on the runways, British Royal Air Force says of it's fashion debut: "We hope you too will feel proud to wear such iconic apparel bearing the emblems which will identify you with those outstanding virtues." RAF & guardian View full entry
Renzo Piano has withdrawn from a project to build an 80-story tower in Boston that would have involved the demolition of a 1960 building by Paul Rudolph that is valued by preservationists. NYT | previously View full entry
A century ago the heroic architectural style of Modernism promised that technology could save the world. Two major exhibitions look at what went right - and wrong. Philadelphia Inquirer | Exhibit 1 | Exhibit 2 | related View full entry
Robert Harbison discusses the joys of the "labyrinthine" city in this article from MSN Open for Design. "The cities that interest me most are the ones hardest to reduce to patterns of lines, labyrinthine ones like Istanbul or Venice... One of the pleasures of the labyrinth is that it is not... View full entry
In the pursuit of sustainable living in NYC, a man and his family give up TV, carbon powered transportation, and toilet paper. noimpactman.blog | NY Times View full entry
From the outside, the Tugendhat House doesn’t look like one of the most important residential buildings of the 20th century, but the house is the subject of a bitter custody battle. nyt View full entry
Project developer Far East Organization announced the development of a 20.000 square meter large, 153 meter and 36-storey high residential tower. An artist impression can be found via dezeen. View full entry
Design + technology = rockports. Makes perfect sense to me. View full entry
Thom Mayne has pushed his firm towards sustainability in a big way. Maybe Morphosis is the best sustainable design firm in Los Angeles (dare I say all of California?) right now or is it? The LAtimes explores the sustainable features of his latest building - the federal court tower in San... View full entry
A maxim in the theory of problem-solving says: if you can’t break it, it isn’t fixed. In other words, if you don’t know how something came to not-work, you can’t be sure that you have reliably made it work. Since a systematic approach to climate change would involve a new... View full entry
Archigram’s Plug-in City , Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban... View full entry
a recent auction of detroit properties results in several being sold for less than the cost of the average car in america. from yahoo View full entry