A review of architecture in film concludes that villains always seem to prefer minimal design, but the heroes prefer homely. |AP View full entry
Author Witold Rybczynski weighs in on the America's Top 150 Buildings survey: "...What do Americans think of the recent spate of signature buildings? The short answer: not much."|Slate View full entry
A man has refused to vacate his house in Chongqing, despite threats of demolition... leading to this totally insane development: check it out. View full entry
Walter Benjamin would be proud: the Paris arcades as tourist destination. "The 19th-century shopping arcades of Paris, or passages couverts, are proof that anything modern, if spared the wrecking ball, can be stimulus for nostalgia. When these iron-columned, glass-covered structures shot up... View full entry
This article appears in the last issue of the spanish architecture magazine Arquitectura Viva. If you can read spanish, the article is about virtual communities and imaginary worlds (Second Life especially), and though it doesn't mention Archinect anywhere the accompanying illustration will be... View full entry
According to The Economist, Berlin's TV tower may soon be for sale: "To raise money for its mobile-phone network, Deutsche Telekom is considering whether to sell 20,000 of the towers, masts and roof transmitters it owns across Germany, including the television tower at Alexanderplatz... The... View full entry
A call for high-performance buildings in beantown. Boston Globe View full entry
Come be a critic for the review of LOL Architects, as featured in Architecture's Second Life. Friday March 16th, 9 AM to 6 PM, which is really 1 AM to 10 AM PST (ie. THURSDAY night - Friday morning) ... but architects don't sleep anyway, yo! There will be a double-feed of projectors between The... View full entry
Archinect editor Orhan Ayyuce spends some time with Michael Rotondi, both in his classroom, and at his office, offering some insight into the serenely fascinating world of RoTo... Read View full entry
"Caught up in a self-validating discourse that is increasingly irrelevant to network culture, design in the academy is falling behind innovators like Architecture for Humanity or Rocio Romero. The Network Architecture Lab is currently working on various open source initiatives. You will be... View full entry
The inquiry into this new skyscraper planned for the City of London opened last week. The project is supported by CABE, the British corporate all star architects and building design the architect's favourite weekly but condemned by English Heritage as oppressive and overwhelming" and by the new... View full entry
The Vilcek Foundation has announced the names of the recipients of its annual Prizes in biomedical research and in the arts and humanities. The 2007 Prize recipient for biomedical science is developmental biologist and stem cell researcher, Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch; architect, urban planner, author... View full entry
If you can read Spanish, even moderately well, I strongly recommend Iñaki Abalos' opinion piece in El Pais, the daily from Spain. In this article, Abalos explains why he's seeing a disconnect between all the sustainability talk and the business city. Instead he proposes Melville's Bartleby... View full entry
Is Mecca turning into Las Vegas? Several new construction projects - and lots of demolition - seem to indicate that it is... Pruned investigates: New Mecca. View full entry
"Halliburton, the big energy services company, said on Sunday that it would open a corporate headquarters in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai and move its chairman and chief executive, David J. Lesar, there." Will this prove as controversial as the proposed Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi? New York... View full entry