"'Made in CataluNYa, Catalan Culture in New York' is a festival organized by the Barcelona-based Institut Ramon Llull and featuring some of today's most innovative and celebrated Catalan artists in music, dance, theater, and poetry."... So you have Gaudí and all those artists from the late... View full entry
It was announced last week that artist Olafur Eliasson and Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen, of the architectural firm Snøhetta, will collaborate to create the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones said, “The Serpentine Gallery architectural... View full entry
Max Protech, who has helped the careers of Zaha Hadid & Rem Koolhaas by displaying and selling their architectural renderings, is developing a 14 unit condo in NYC. NY Times View full entry
The NYTimes creates KEY MAGAZINE, a new magazine devoted to real estate. View full entry
One of the best inventions we've seen recently is the Ecos LifeLink, a mobile, portable structure which provides water purification, electricity and even wireless internet access - all through the power of the wind and the sun. Inhabitat View full entry
HAVIDOL is for the treatment of Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD). It is the only known medication available for this newly recognized disorder. WHEN MORE IS NOT ENOUGH. View full entry
Many people would be amazed to learn that there is 270,000 acres, or 426 square miles of undeveloped land just north of Los Angeles that is being primed for development into a new city - Centennial. Tejon Ranch is one of the last great California ranches and owned by a public company. Is this... View full entry
Instant City / The Rise of Dubai. First in a series of dialogues which addresses the relations between architecture, power, and political dissent. Debate between Kees Christiaanse and George Katodrytis. The event focused on the exuberant metropolitan development in Dubai and its consequential... View full entry
Minimalism: the quality that a building or object possesses when every component, every detail and every junction has been reduced or condensed to its essentials. financial times View full entry
Back to the Future of the Creative City: Amsterdam’s creative redevelopment and the art of deception. "Amsterdam’s Creative City policy - far from intending to make the city’s entire population more creative - is predominantly a branding exercise, an expression of a much more... View full entry
This is why "This Is Why I'm Hot" is hot: Because it's hot. There are of course other reasons the breakout single from Mims, a Washington Heights rapper who intends to carry New York hip-hop on his back and restore us to glory, is hot. village voice View full entry
U.S. News picks the best 25 professions for the new year. Though architects made the list, the figures are quite disheartening. usnews View full entry
Van Alen Institute invites applications for the New York Prize Fellowship, a new fellowship program in support of multidisciplinary research and experimental practice in public architecture. Emerging practitioners and scholars from the design and planning disciplines, and other fields in the... View full entry
Jan Kaplický's unorthodox National Library, which some liken to a multicolored octopus, has provoked scoffs from Prague residents who object to such an unusual building being built in the historic district. Kaplický defends his vision. Prague Post | previously View full entry
LACMA director Michael Govan considers an idea directed towards preservation: "...Collect significant pieces of midcentury residential architecture and treat them as both museum objects and as residences for curators." | NYT View full entry