According to the National Review, the NYT edited out the final words of Slavoj Zizek's January 5th Op-Ed on the execution of Saddam Hussein. Find out what part was missing. View full entry
What confronts the ethically-minded architect of today? Süddeutsche Zeitung architectural critic Alexander Hosch examines the relationship between the architect and the autocrat. S&S View full entry
Archinect member puddles has posted an article in the forum regarding the pending demolition of Marcel Breuer's "modest & unpretentiously modern" Grosse Pointe Central Library. A quick email may go a long way... View full entry
Fantastic series of photographs by Bill Sullivan. People passing through what seems to be a NY subway turnstile. View full entry
as Washington's most-visited monument is honored with a major design award, Newsweek presents an article and a sample of works of art and architecture created by Maya Lin in the years since she completed the memorial. View full entry
The Dutch as you might have witnessed are very progressive people. In this spirit the municipality of Groningen created a public forum to vote for a selection of seven designs for the Groninger Forum. via anarchitecture Zaha Hadid Architects Foreign Office Architects Wiel Arets Architects Erick... View full entry
The Architecture Foundation puts online the recording of this symposium where the question asked is: what is the role of architectural criticism in a landscape where the scale of architectural production, especially by well known and critically acclaimed practices, has changed beyond recognition... View full entry
"During the Hajj, millions of Muslims travel to Mecca and jam up on the Jamarat Bridge. To prevent trampling deaths," Wired reports, "scientists design crowd control by viewing surveillance imagery of the 2006 disaster as particle fluid-dynamical flow." Prev: Rebuilding the road to Mecca. View full entry
This time it is Frank Gehry in UC Irvine. Campus architect Rebekah Gladson praised the buildings: "They served a function. They did it well. They were actually great, wild and funky." But their time had passed, she said. Oh well. I think it is better to wreck them instead of remodeling beyond... View full entry
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) presents “Thinking Inside the Box,” two talks about the shipping container with LOT-EK and Marc Levinson. Tuesday, January 30, at 7pm. Housing Works, 126 Crosby Street. RSVP to [email protected] View full entry
Significant new details on the public space planned at the $465 million Museum Plaza on Louisville's riverfront were disclosed yesterday at a forum on the multi-use skyscraper. Courier-Journal | recently | previously 1|2 l related View full entry
The giant Gensler-designed CityCenter Hotel in Las Vegas will dwarf all LEED structures to-date and set a new Green Design benchmark for one of the world's most wasteful industries. It might be possible to win big in Vegas after all.| Las Vegas Sun View full entry
Our popular UpStarts series has been once again updated by John Jourden. This time John sits down to talk with London-based Plasma Studio's Holger Kehne. Go View full entry
With its striking facade of waves of glass, The National Art Center, Tokyo, (designed by Kisho Kurikawa) need not beg to differ. A bold move to Roppongi away from the cluster of national and metropolitan-run institutions in Ueno, the new museum encompasses an astounding 48,000m2, making it the... View full entry
A couple in Brooklyn wants a divorce... but neither of them will give up the house. It's not a movie, it's the real-life story of the Taubs, and they've given their home a new wall: "The wall divides the ground floor of the house, and keeps husband and wife penned into separate sections on... View full entry