Alan Altshuler resigns as Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design. | gsdnews View full entry
After the dark days of the battle over the Vietnam project, [Maya] Lin jumped straight from the frying pan into the granola. WashPost View full entry
Big corporations find it hard to plan for the future, especially when it comes to installing solar panels to generate their own energy. So why not outsource the solar panel burden to another company? I smell a tax write off... NYT View full entry
“Me, I live in my plane . . .I try to go the least possible out of my plane. I have a small bed, I have a desk. Every day I go to a different city. My home is a plane and the clouds, which is a very good place for a professional dreamer. Then when I come back to Earth I can bring you a... View full entry
the Tower is increaingly being overshadowed by new skyscrapers developments which "appear not to respect" the Tower's location. BBC View full entry
DUBAI””O-14, a twenty-two story tall commercial tower perched on a two-storey podium, is slated to break ground during the first week of December 2006 in the heart of Business Bay in Dubai. The building comprises 300,000 square feet and is a collaboration between RUR Architecture of... View full entry
With the Velo-City, the Bicycle City, progressive Rentabike Infra-urbanism, new urban bike trails with bike trees and all, you can add these shortlisted winners of the competition to re-invent the bike shed, where proposals have imagined "a floating inflatable bike pod and a hi-tech aerial... View full entry
Form follows function. From medieval castles to modern airports, security concerns have always influenced architecture. Wired View full entry
As the controversial "Safdie Plan" for the expansion of westerm Jerusalem begins to buckle under continued criticism, Safdie himself takes a back seat to defending it, but answers some difficult questions in this interview for Haaretz. View full entry
Frank Gehry gets a new challenge in the city of brotherly love where he has been slated to design the new addition to The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the renovation of its existing neo-Classical building under an ambitious 10-year master plan. NYT l PI View full entry
New York - Steven Holl Architects announces the winning design for the Vanke Center, a progressive new sustainable mixed-use complex in Shenzhen, China on the South China Sea. The firm was selected from a small list of invited firms including MVRDV (The Netherlands) and HAE (China). The Vanke... View full entry
Curbed LA reports that the famous case study house will be up for auction with an estimated value at $2.5-3.5M. View full entry
We're going to be soon releasing some super-limited edition Architecture Sucks shirts shortly... in 12 different colors of American Apparel t-shirts, in both men's and women's styles. They're going to sell out fast, and the colors are very limited, so if you would like to buy one make sure to... View full entry
The Jaume Fuster municipal library in Barcelona, by Josep Llinà s, has won the 2006 FAD Prize for the best building in the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Spain & Catalonia) 2005-06, in the awards ceremony celebrated today Oct, 18 in Barcelona. Pics of the organic library at Flickr... View full entry
From the Sydney Morning Herald... OUR National Architecture Week, for anyone who didn't notice, came to a close last week. Two weeks ago we had World Architecture Day. In Sydney and in Venice, exhibitions have been timed to coincide with these calendar high points. Yet all these together... View full entry