Archinect Senior Editors Heather Ring and Bryan Boyer give us a tour of Second Life - a fascinating, and ever-growing, alternate reality. Heather follows up the tour by interviewing Tor Lindstrand, RITS professor and founder of LOL, the world's largest virtual architecture office... GO View full entry
Steve Jobs just finished up the Macworld keynote announcing three big things; iTV - connect to your TV, stream movies, content, etc. iPhone - new mobile technology married with an ipod widescreen. Cingular contract. starts June 07. new name - Apple Computer, Inc. will be now known as Apple, Inc... View full entry
Flames boiled furiously out of the skeletons of million-dollar beach homes as palm trees bent in winds blowing at 21 mph. abc7, related; let malibu burn, mike davis. View full entry
The Le Corb Foundation ups the ante in the prize for insane pricing with the forthcoming 16 DVD-Rom set of all 40,000 Le Corbusier plans. Features include the possibility to print all the documents, if you have a small forest spare.Stout Books View full entry
Gabriel Arboleda presented a website devoted to world-wide architecture without the (professional) architects at the Tenth conference of IASTE, the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, which was held in Bangkok, Thailand. "...Conceived as an information hub for the... View full entry
The Architecture Foundation London has collaborated with D&AD to challenge students to design an installation for their new building. Deadline March 23rd. Details > View full entry
London used to have pretty awful new year public celebrations. Last year the city started getting its act together but this year the London Eye Fireworks display was just sensational. 10 and a half minutes of non-stop colors, banging and light View full entry
The latest trend in furniture design and architecture is escaping into the mainstream media. CNC and other digital fabrication methods are creating 'fluid' furniture. Looks like the stuff being made by architecture students around the world! LAtimes View full entry
If I told you there’s a building material that is up to 50 times stronger than oak but lighter than steel or concrete, that is flexible, aesthetically pleasing and highly rated for its green credentials, you might say it sounds too good to be true. FT View full entry
After much anticipation, the beautiful, eco-friendly Loblolly prefab home has finally been built in Maryland, using a non-traditional, component-based approach to prefab construction, in which a "kit-of-parts," much like in automotive assembly, can be unbolted and rebuilt in different... View full entry
The chief appeal of The Architecture of Happiness, the thoughtful if rather conservative new book by Alain de Botton, is its offering of a plausible theory about why we inexplicably find certain buildings beautiful, others ugly, and why these emotions can be so passionate. A review by Kevin... View full entry
“We are letting ourselves be drained of endless resources and huge amounts of ideas — all to no avail,” said Koolhaas. “I am on a campaign now to convince the world that this kind of competition is hopeless and that we should find more efficient forms of architectural... View full entry
9 of Ito's projects that describe his "emerging grid" concept which embraces richer complexities and transforms standardized rigidity into fluid organic space. Exhibition website / QTVR views via Dezain View full entry
You can now vote in the 3-horse race competition for The History Channel's City of the Future. Assess and vote here View full entry
Mordechai Omer and Avi Rosen chart the structures of man and how they help(ed) us to understand our relationship to the universe. CTheory View full entry