The controversial survey of Americans' favorite buildings released last week by the AIA has an intriguing minor theme that didn't make the papers but still deserves mention: the strong influence of Chicago architects outside Chicago. Chicago Tribune | previously View full entry
A small town in South Texas is looking for architects that can turn a tilt-up Wal-Mart into a vanguard civic library.| The Monitor View full entry
It's hidden behind a subscriber-only link, but I've got a short article in the new issue of Metropolis, about Minnesota's Art Shanty Projects... "For the past four winters a kind of sci-fi skid row has sprung up on the temporarily frozen surface of Medicine Lake, in the western suburbs of... View full entry
With cats on Prozac, bunnies in sex therapy and dogs getting massages, the City of LA has taken the logical next step: hired a feng shui consultant to help to design a $7.4 million enclosure for three rare golden monkeys at the Los Angeles Zoo, to ensure that the monkeys will have a strong life... View full entry
The great Germaine Greer holds forth on the architecture of libraries. View full entry
In Compared to What? architect and educator Wes Janz takes us through the former industrial corridors of the American Midwest--GO. While on the other extreme, Archinect school blogger Quilian Riano gets a close-up with one of the dueling teams of the ArchDuel III--GO View full entry
"By looking at future possibilities for a pluralist, just, and sustainable city shared by Palestinians and Israelis, we hope to encourage new ways of thinking about the many difficult issues and hardships faced by Jerusalemites, regardless of their faith or ethnicity. Starting March 2nd, 2007 the... View full entry
...because buildings and reputations can fall apart.| ArchRecord via BusinessWeek View full entry
With 2-Year Wait List, St. Mary's Modular-Home Factory Doesn't Need to Advertise. Washington Post View full entry
The USGBC's Greenbuild conference was slated to take place in Los Angeles November 7-9. However, last week, the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau (LA, Inc.) notified the USGBC that "in order to meet the needs of the conference", the date would need to be changed a second time. Quote from... View full entry
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the creation of a $200,000 award, called the Jane Jacobs Medal, to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to urban design, specifically in New York City. The medal will be given annually to two people: a lifetime contribution and... View full entry
Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. Researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture insist it's no cow pie in the sky dream. They say that fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of... View full entry
"Researchers are to carry out the first detailed survey of the Great Wall of China to establish just how long the ancient barricade is, Xinhua reports. Along with checking its dimensions the four-year study, which starts in May, will map the wall's exact route." BBC. View full entry
"The Gulf Coast is littered with the carcasses of unused oil equipment. Now those structures are being repurposed to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States." - Wired. View full entry
Barcelona is celebrated as one of Europe's finest cultural treasures, but until recently we knew little about its heritage. Robert Hughes on how a group of architects - in particular Gaudí - created a uniquely Catalan city that combined the myths of a glorious past with progress and... View full entry