The NY Times reports on our friends Laura Burkhalter and William Ki's Yurt (Ger) import business, and briefly interviews Archinect editors Evan Geisler and Denise Ip, as new Yurt owners... NY Times | Previously | Previously View full entry
Websites are already being loaded with tons of photos of the Architecture Biennale 06. Here are some galleries A | B | C | D via flickr, dezain and noticiasarquitectura View full entry
Birmingham's tallest building took three years to build and was completed in 1966. BBC | Flickr View full entry
Via Elektro Plankton check out photos of an abandoned housing project made out of circular pods in the outskirts of Taipei, Taiwan. Page 1 | page 2 | flickr View full entry
If you are in Vancouver near the end of this month, go check out Kyohei Sakaguchi's installation Zero Yen House. Based on his research of the informal architecture of Japan's urban homeless, and his book entitled the same, the exhibition will feature a portable dwelling that is evident of the... View full entry
Photos of the actual building in Foster and partners website, go to News and then click into the relevant item (I can't link directly due to their flash website). Previously | Discussion | (images after the jump...) View full entry
"The Daily Mirror got its paws on a supposedly secret memo compiled by some of the dwindling number of Blair loyalists, detailing plans to secure the PM's legacy" it turns out that part of it maps a tour for the British Prime Minister to visit the most striking 12 to 20 buildings (varies with the... View full entry
Last year hundreds of thousands were evicted from their homes in Zimbabwe under the government sanctioned Operation Murambatsvina. Thankfully there was an international outcry over the brutality inflicted on its residents. As a result the Mugabe government made statements that they were raising... View full entry
Well, this is it. The complete picture (for now) of Ground 0. Maki, Foster, and Rogers throw their trophys into the hallowed mix. Thoughts? | nytimes View full entry
The General Services Administration has selected Thomas Gordon Smith, an architect based in South Bend, Ind., as its new Chief Architect. This has caused outrage by noted Architects. >>more. | wsj ------------------------------- ------------------------------- Date Published... View full entry
A competition to design 94 hectares of prime waterfront land including what is expected to be the largest greenhouse in the tropics took place and the result is a joint win between: Grant Associates and Gustafson Porter. Projects > View full entry
The BBC diagrams the security features of the Freedom Tower as we approach Sept. 11th, a conversation carried further by this examination of what I call a fortress urbanism in San Francisco, not to mention the fact that security companies are booming since the attacks and all we've really created... View full entry
Triggered by monsoon rains in the last few days, flooding has left victims living in makeshift tents and surviving on food air-dropped by relief workers. AlertNet (more) View full entry
In Astana the new capital of the largest of the former Soviet Republics, Kazakhstan, Foster & Parners builds a pyramid to represent all the world's religious faiths. I'm lost for words... Times | Gabion | check out what Astana looks like > View full entry
Lord Foster has been enlisted by the King of Jordan to carve a canal through the desert to rescue the Dead Sea, which has shrunk by a third over the past 50 years and faces total evaporation. Read View full entry