For those of you who haven't noticed yet (or aren't on our mailing list), Mason White has posted a fantastic personal review from his visit to the Venice Biennale, including lots of great project images. Go View full entry
As Berlin has embraced a vibrant, adventurous architecture(?) in its dash to modernize, the Polish capital's architects seem to be content in playing it safe - and boring. Polonia View full entry
Tishman Speyer digs into their pockets for the $5.4 billion price tag on the 110-building site, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. They are home to 25,000 residents. | nytimes | prev View full entry
The population of the United States officially hit 300 million at 7:46 a.m. EDT Tuesday, when the US Census Bureau's population clock rolled over to the big number. NYT l WNYC l Facts! View full entry
Watch HdM's bird nest stadium and PTW's bubble building being constructed. via dezain l previous View full entry
Michael Bierut on the University of Cincinnati, the Aronoff Center, and falling stools. Read on... View full entry
Every self-respecting country has an Architecture Biennale of its own nowadays. In Beijing, the 2ABBeijing took place from 26 September to 6 October. As is usually the case with architecture biennales, the themes may have been big, but most of the presentations paid no attention to them... View full entry
Is Scotland the only part of the United Kingdom where Zaha Hadid's work is accepted? Scotsman View full entry
Möbius Modernism meets Möbius Futurism. View full entry
What happens in the cultural transfer of design concepts by European architecture schools in the context of a practical building programme? Can hegemonic relationships as discussed under the heading 'Postcolonial Studies' be excluded from the architecture debate, and what are the key instruments... View full entry
Ten years ago, New Scientist explored a post-human London. By 2556, for instance, the city should have reverted to a forest, iron and concrete structures will have collapsed, and Canary Wharf will have "sunk into the marsh." As a companion to The Earth Without People, you can read the whole thing... View full entry
The three finalists -- Hargreaves, Field Operations, and Mia Lehrer -- presented their ideas for the Cornfield, a 32-acre state park on the edge of downtown LA, linking it to a restored LA river. Field Ops (w Thom Mayne) departed from the brief with a radical proposal to demolish Dodgers Stadium... View full entry
this year's £20,000 Stirling Prize for architecture went to Richard Rogers. BBC View full entry
This week sort of shadowing the Stirling Prize, BD published a list of 10 nominees for the worst building of the UK prize. BD online View full entry
Many of the other buildings to scoop the prize have failed to live up to the praise heaped on them. Critics say architects have become detached from everyday life and are calling for a rethink of the prize so that buildings are judged on how well they stand up to use. guardian View full entry