Buildings are definitely energy hogs. The SUV is the environmental bad-boy symbol, but buildings consume more energy than cars and trucks. It’s estimated that commercial and residential buildings in the U.S. consume 65 percent of all electricity, as well as 12 percent of drinkable water and... View full entry
Spurred by recent legislation that provides financial incentives — and by rising energy costs and, perhaps, by a lingering distrust of power companies in the aftermath of the California electricity crisis at the start of the decade — homeowners across the state have come to see solar... View full entry
Even though this exhibition won't open at Cooper-Hewitt until May, I am mentioning it now 'cause it sounds so good. “Design for the Other 90%” will be divided into sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, education, energy and transportation and highlights... View full entry
John at Archidose is surveying 30 buildings or places of interest throughout New York City tracking his ongoing exploration of the city. #2 is the mostly complete 40 Mercer Residences by Jean Nouvel. View full entry
Average student debt levels have more than doubled in the last decade and more students and their families are finding themselves buried under the burden of debt... The good news is that incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has publicly committed to cutting student loan interest rates in half... View full entry
Radio Netherlands discusses OMA's China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing. Read/Listen View full entry
Experts are starting to think so - and they're urging architects and town planners to tackle the obesity epidemic by making new buildings more fitness-friendly. Guardian View full entry
James Venturi, son of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is making a documentary about his parents. The clips prove promising. MySpace View full entry
While Archinect is busy preparing its own META for 2007. The people over at Log are unsoliciting submissions for Log 11: A New Metacritique for Architecture due February 01, 2007. Also on the writing front, Pamphlet Architecture has extended its deadline for PA29 to January 16, 2007. View full entry
A Japanese architect at the centre of a scandal over unsafe buildings was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for his role in a scandal that left scores of apartments and hotels vulnerable to even moderate earthquakes. Reuters l previous l related View full entry
Mortality and other somber doses of reality fill a rather dark and sobering gabfest with Frank Gehry. Grab the tissue: you're about to laugh and cry, but I promise you'll leave the theater with a smile.| Wall St. Journal View full entry
In the global economy, U.S.-based architecture and interior design firms are ferreting out the business benefits and pitfalls of global outsourcing, or "offshoring." It's a trend driving business profitability too big to ignore. "The design community has been working for years to develop... View full entry
The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread. FT View full entry
In the world of year end lists, person of the year issues, and year end critique paralysis when does the common person really get their say in all of this?! Right here at Archinect were interested in what your 2006 top tens are. So much so we've created a space to remember them. So get into the... View full entry
"This is a design for a private art gallery intended to permanently display eight sculptures owned by the client. Giving consideration to the state of the town and the program of the building, we decided it was necessary that the space of the art gallery itself should be potent enough to... View full entry