AIA Saint Paul invites all members of AIA Minnesota to join us March 10th for this year's Unauthorized Design event which will explore the potential for the Ford plant site along the Mississippi River... Don't miss this opportunity to exercise your imagination outside the bounds of the office or... View full entry
In flickr- dodeckahedron check out the rest of her flickr sets they are good and also her blog bloop bleep View full entry
PTW’s National Swimming Center for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing - aka the Bubble Building - exemplifies what all new construction should aim to be: beautiful, functional, forward-thinking, and most importantly, a good example for future development in a nation whose growth appears to know... View full entry
Last week London's Barbican gallery opened a major retrospective of Aalto's work curated by Shigeru Ban. 24hour museum reviews the exhibition. Previously. View full entry
In the beauty and geometric complexity of tile mosaics on walls of medieval Islamic buildings, scientists have recognized patterns suggesting that the designers had made a conceptual breakthrough in mathematics beginning as early as the 13th century. NYTimes View full entry
Then copy the Georgians. Observer View full entry
The NYtimes reports on the latest european import to the US - automated parking - that puts us one step closer to living like the Jetsons... of course, the american version isn't the work of art that the germans have been using for a few years. NYC: Wolfsburg: View full entry
Check out the latest issue of ID Magazine. The theme is beauty, and featured is our very own Archinect editor duo F. David Boira and Zoe Coombes of emerging Commonwealth fame. View full entry
"Worried your house may crumble during the next earthquake but not keen to pump toxic grouts into the ground to hold it up? A shot of bacteria may be the solution, say researchers. They have shown in the lab that a common soil bacteria, Bacillus pasteurii, can stabilise buildings built on sandy... View full entry
John King loves Morphosis' new green fed tower in SF. "Like it or not," he says, "this is architecture at its provocative best." View full entry
For every Koolhaas the West produces, [China] can produce 10 very good young Chinese architects able to deliver the same project, at the same level of quality, for about a third of the price. This doesn’t mean, of course, that China is immune from nouveau riche posturing. NYT February... View full entry
The Design Build Challenge is a three-day design build competition in which contestants plan and construct something practical, functional and beautiful for an actual client with real constraints... Working as individuals or in teams of any size, contestants will work within predetermined... View full entry
The 7 finalists for the 2007 edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 2007 are listed here. The list includes Zaha's Phaeno, UN Studio's Mercedes-Benz Museum and Lacaton & Vassal School in Bordeaux. The Award will be given in May 14. View full entry
Here are the Architecture League of NY's Emerging Voices 07: Eric Howeler & Meejin Yoon | Ammar Eloueini | Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott | Johnston Mark Lee | Della valle Bernheimer | An Te Liu | Anderson Anderson | Trahan || Check it (lectures begin March 1!) View full entry
Architect Kisho Kurokawa announced Wednesday that he would run for governor of Tokyo. From Japan Today View full entry