Asymptote Architecture has won an international competition of the Millennium Tower World Business Center (WBCB) in Busan, Korea. WAN l via Dezain. View full entry
"Something made of recyclable material isn't necessarily sustainable. If it's bad, it could be thrown away tomorrow. But if things are well made and people like them, they'll last. That's sustainable." IHT View full entry
Archinect editor Heather Ring teamed up with Landscape Designer Amy Seek to dish up a new feature with architect / artist / salon-owner / school-master Fritz Haeg. By convincing a suburban family in Salina, Kansas to tear up their manicured lawn and replace it with an edible garden, Fritz... View full entry
Bldgblog's Geoff Manaugh interviews Ed Mazria about climate change, sustainable design, and the 2030 Challenge. BLDG | Inhabitat | WorldChanging View full entry
The most anticipated bi-annual competition for young European Architects (At least one designer in any team must be registered in Europe) is opening in the next hours. Europan 9 will be live here at 12:00 noon GMT. But you can get a preview of the Dutch sites already and if you are thinking about... View full entry
Regine at WM$NA interviews "writer and critical futurist" Adam Greenfield. Check her version out here. Nicolas Nova of Pasta and Vinegar lends Regine a hand with a variation of his own. View full entry
How to find meaning in a centerless world? For a half-century, that has been the question facing the strip of corporate towers, cultural landmarks and undeveloped lots known as Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Time and again the avenue has been the focus of grandiose proposals by civic... View full entry
Kinky Gentrification -watch: SF Chronicle reports that "No welcome mat for adult film studio. Activists prefer building be used for housing." | (SF Mayor) Newsom spokesman Peter Ragone said the mayor's office is looking for ways to halt the move of BDSM filmmaker into abandoned white elephant ||... View full entry
Jonathan Jones asks: "From the Holocaust to 9/11, from Berlin to New York, the world is now studded with memorials to human suffering. But does this really mean we care more than we used to? And does our obsession with terrible events make it any less likely that we will repeat them?" View full entry
Global warming is one of the most-talked-about topics in Davos this year. But for many gathered in the Swiss mountain town for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, mere talk isn’t enough. “We cannot wait for our governments to act,” Yale President Richard Levin told... View full entry
Coming up in March: "Evasions of Power," a series of roundtable discussions exploring the relations between architecture, literature and geo-politics. The proceedings will take place in Philadelphia. Speakers include: Keller Easterling, Laura Kurgan, Eyal Weizman, Teddy Cruz, Anselm Franke, to... View full entry
You can view online, Farrell's talk for The Civic Trust 'Pride of Place' held at Building Centre, London on Wednesday 24 January 2007 View full entry
Designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, Pittsburgh’s David Lawrence Convention Center along the waterfront has a Gold LEED rating, and is both the largest “green” building and first “green” convention center in the world. Inhabitat View full entry
Abbé Pierre , who in the 1950s as a gaunt priest with a crook-handled cane and a profoundly persuasive passion mobilized France to attend to its homeless, then kept pressing his crusade until he became known as the country’s moral compass, died yesterday in Paris. He was 94. NYT View full entry
Happy 80th Birthday to the first lady of architecture Phyllis Lambert, who just had a birthday bash with 250 guests yesterday January 24th. Canada.com View full entry