Replacement firm Grimshaw Architects is moving forward with the Queens Museum of Art. The museum will be unveiled on Saturday at the museum during Openhousenewyork Weekend, the annual architecture and design event. NYT l previous View full entry
Suddenly the McMansions are going very goth with the proliforation of 'hidden' rooms. Is this just a tax fraud waiting to happen, or is there a lifestyle driving this trend. The NYtimes uncovers the story and tells you where to source hardware for your very own secret passage. View full entry
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have received the 2007 RIBA Royal Gold Medal RIBA l IHT l 24 l ArchRecord l Guardian View full entry
October 14th and the presentation of the Stirling Prize is just around the corner. Here is a refreshed look at the projects up for the honor. Bloomberg l Radio 4 l Liver l RIBA l post your favorite below. View full entry
Desperate New Orleans-area officials touted Chinese-made homes and building supplies on Tuesday as a way to speed up the slow recovery of their storm-stricken city. Reuters View full entry
For those of you who haven't yet noticed, we published a great new feature yesterday, in the form of an interview between Archinect's Heather Ring and D.I.R.T. Studio's Julie Bargmann. Read View full entry
The Center for Virtual Architecture at the University at Buffalo, the Institute for Distributed Creativity, and The Architectural League of New York present...ARCHITECTURE AND SITUATED TECHNOLOGIES October 19-21, 2006 @ The Urban Center & Eyebeam New York... View full entry
The NYC Masons are giving tours of their main temple - all to recruit new members. Wow, a chance to learn their secret handshake and to become part of the power behind the american throne. Ready for Masionic Rituals anybody? NYtimes View full entry
Official forum of the ABB2006... Forum on City and architecture. Kicked off by: George Brugmans (Directior Rotterdam Architecture Biennial) Gregor Jansen (Director ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe) Zhenning Fang (Art / Architecture critic) Keller Easterling... View full entry
Klaus Biesenbach was named chief curator of a new department at MoMA to focus exclusively on the growing number of contemporary artworks that use sound and moving images in gallery installations. NYT View full entry
In Paris, at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, LVMH's Bernard Arnault, unveils a "dream"; weaved by FOG, a glass facetted quasi-blob, yet to be softened into "a cloud made of glass". "I want everything to look like my drawings," Gehry went on, waving toward large reproductions of seemingly chaotic pen... View full entry
The "audience of eyes and ears" are invited on a trip into a "psychologically complex relationship" with that of a building. "What we search for in a work of architecture is not in the end so far from what we search for in a friend," he writes. "Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of... View full entry
Joel John Roberts pens this editorial for the LA Times, comparing the de facto squatter urbanism of LA's skid row to the 'Walled City' that once occupied the heart of Hong Kong. (related). Up north, in SF, the city has embarked on a new campaign to evict the homeless from Golden Gate park... View full entry
A mugging victim blames WaMu bank for their robber-friendly space layout. LATimes | via View full entry
World Architecture Day is celebrated on the first Monday of October each year. This celebration was initiated by the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA). On the same day, the United Nations celebrates World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of human settlements. The theme for this year's... View full entry