From Docomomo email: "For the past several months, DOCOMOMO US has hosted an international online debate about the controversial renovation of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, designed in 1949 by Alvar Aalto, and one of the few extant U.S. interiors by the great Finnish modernist... View full entry
The future of downtown Los Angeles, hi-rise condos and all, is at the intersection of politics, politics, developers and the Latino business elite. LA Times View full entry
Hundreds of inventive scientist from universities around the world rallied and saved Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs. NYTimes | Previously » 1, 2 View full entry
Artkrush is publishing its third Architecture issue today, featuring an interview with Stefano Boeri, editor-in-chief of Domus, about his project at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. It also features a tour of the latest constructions by Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Santiago Calatrava in the... View full entry
As reported earlier, Cornell has enlisted OMA for their new Architecture building. Well, now there is a scheme. Says Koolhaas: "The box is always an isolated thing. But here, we use the box as a connector. You could say it's a postmodern use of the box." Third architect is a charm. | nytimes View full entry
Inundating the Border: Migrating the Line (El Paso/Ciudad Juarez) | Natural Disaster, Landscape Architecture, and Life (Earthquake relief in Bam, Iran) | Building Sediment (New Orleans) | Complete List of 2006 Awards, Congrats! View full entry
Al Gore gave a speech at NYU today in which he calls the architecture community into action, saying that "...new architecture and design techniques are creating dramatic new opportunities for huge savings in energy use and global warming pollution." Grist"Buildings, both commercial and... View full entry
Miami's architectural scene gets its voice back when Terence Riley brings in big-horned Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to design a new $208 million home for the Miami Art Museum in Museum Park on Biscayne Bay. NYT View full entry
"Whatever your political beliefs, you might well hope, as you stroll to the individual national exhibition pavilions, to see some imaginative ideas addressing the issues raised in Burdett's show. Most of all, you might expect to see some new architecture. No such luck. For whatever reason, this... View full entry
Venice SuperBlog has a spectacular array of audio interviews with Charles Jencks, Norman Foster, Peter Cooks, Nigel Coates, Jacques Herzog, Olafur Eliasson, Aaron Betsky and Martien de Vletter, Wolf Prix, David Adjaye, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas and even a report on Rem's groupies, with images... View full entry
The Beijing National Swimming Center is in the process of being skinned with its ETFE units >> angus_mac on flickr. (via) View full entry
Larry calls me to tag along with him to SCI Arc this morning. Why not? I haven't seen a school presentation in almost 15 years or so, the last time I was a jury at Pratt Institute in early 90's. So, I change the battery of my camera and, here we come SCI Arc, under the influence... After walking... View full entry
Wes Janz (One Small Project...), offers a stark photo series for Polar Inertia (...now with groovy tee's) depicting the depopulation of Flint, Michigan, "visible in the abandoned structures caught in a process of decay." View full entry
The Independent asked five of "the world's most brilliant curators, product designers, architects and graphic artists" this question. Guess who was the architect and see what s(he) had to say. View full entry
"MALAYSIA is a nation in transition: we are moving from an agriculture-dependent economy to an industrial one, from a Third World nation to a developed one. Architecturally, too, we are in transition: from a colonial past to a modern future, as last night's Persatuan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM) awards... View full entry