AIA COD 2006 Ideas Competition Winners: "A House for an Ecologist." How can environmental innovation contribute directly to design excellence? To try to respond to this question the AIA challenged architects and students everywhere to propose a unique dwelling that combines integrity and... View full entry
The reconstruction of Iraq continues apace - which is to say slowly, if at all. NYT. View full entry
In 1989, critics slammed the glass pyramid new entrance as a ghoulish eyesore. Seventeen years on, the pyramid is again causing aggravation. Its underground atrium can no longer cope with a record 7.5m visitors a year and the museum has been forced to recall its American architect, Ieoh Ming Pei... View full entry
Kazys Varnelis, of AUDC and Varnelis.net, gives an interview about network geography, Wal-Mart, sprawl, RFID technology, LA vs. NY, Nicholas Negroponte and the Architecture Machine Group - as well as Varnelis's own impending move to Columbia University, where he will become the founding Director... View full entry
The MesseBasel, host of BaselWorld and ArtBasel, has passed another hurdle on their way to the expansion-project 2012, that features a bold renovation and new building by HERZOG & DE MEURON. The $ 280 Million project was greenlighted by the local government and preservation issues have been... View full entry
A team consisting of the Richard Rogers Partnership, FXFowle Architects, and A. Epstein & Sons International received word that key aspects of a $1.7 billion plan to expand the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center were a GO. ArchNP l previous View full entry
Anish Kapoor and Tumi create a limited edition backpack (each will cost $695) to benefit Doctors Without Borders. VIA Also, Kapoor has joined forces with Salman Rushdie to create....art? Independent View full entry
A cadre of artists has assembled along the banks of the Mississippi to construct the flotilla Miss Rockaway Armada. Imagine Don Quixote, Salvador Dalà and Che Guevara collaborated on a floating medicine show. It is hard to say what the Coast Guard will say when it first lays eyes on... View full entry
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston has announced that the opening of its new $51 million home, originally scheduled for Sept. 17, has been postponed because of construction delays. NYT l Boston Globe View full entry
Massimiliano Fuksas is to build his competition winning scheme for The Nelson Mandela Institution for Knowledge Building and the Advancement of Science and Technology in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Record View full entry
Arizonans get ready to kick the tires on their new football stadium by Peter Eisenman Architects/HOK on Sunday. AR Republic View full entry
The Finnish weight in on "wow architecture" and its affects and effects for the future of any urban condition. Sanomat View full entry
Norsk Form and PROJEKT 0047 present "Industry!, Contemporary Meetings between Architecture and Industry" - an exhibition that investigates the interplay between architecture and industry, with a special focus on how knowledge can be transferred between the fields... at DogA Norwegian Centre for... View full entry
Gehry's firm was criticized by builders during court pleadings, but the settlement includes a “non-disparagement” clause that bars Mortenson and its subs from criticizing the architect's work. ENR View full entry
He warned us last July in an interview @ buildering.net that he would soon be climbing "a building" in Barcelona .. and what else could that be but the bullet-shaped, new catalan icon by Jean Nouvel: the Agbar Tower. Spiderman climbed it yesterday morning and received some medical assistance... View full entry