"Two years ago Stephen Mills and Susan Emmet Reid woke up to find offensive graffiti scrawled on the outside of their just-completed house in Santa Fe, N.M. The spray-painter was not a juvenile delinquent, the couple quickly realized, but someone who objected to the design of the building... View full entry
While an inflatable spacecraft that could form the basis of a future space hotel has blasted into space, architects and engineers at the Johnson Space Center are exploring designs for living and working quarters on the moon and beyond. View full entry
Download Joshua Prince Ramus talking at the 2006 TED conference. Available in various formats including googlevideo, itunes video and mp4 View full entry
Sarasota asked to consider "sky plaza" ... and a leigh-critique of the plan, including Gwathmey's thoughts on saving Rudolph | Rudolph's Riverview High School slated for demolition | FLW's "Waterdome" To Reign Once Again At Florida Southern | Florida's Salvador Dali museum pursues plans for new... View full entry
Small interview with AIA's new president elected. Good going sir. Welcome. AR: Do you find American architecture too conservative? Marshall Purnell: If architecture is still music frozen in time, then we're doing classical music. There's no R&B, no jazz, no rap. When you look at who is... View full entry
All the messy details come out about Googlers Sergey Brin's and Larry Page's extravagant desires for the interior of their "unusually large private jet." (Requests for hammock's??). Many architects will be able to relate to the allegations of whimsical design changes by way of the client and the... View full entry
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust today announced plans for a $460 million housing development that will link the Downtown Cultural District with the Allegheny riverfront... Post Gazette The development, which features 700 rental and condominium units, will be along Fort Duquesne Boulevard between... View full entry
"...to lay a foundation for the conservation of our "virtual architecture", the environments and places that make up the synthetic worlds of video games. More commonly referred to as "levels", "maps" or "worlds", these environments are the stage for players' experiences in video games... View full entry
Hugh Pearman compares the diverging strategies of Luxembourg and Liverpool as both cities prepare to become European cities of Culture. The Times View full entry
nArchitects ' installation for SCAD in Provence, France called WindShape opened recently. See the construction diary for sequencing. View full entry
remember the milliondollarhomepage? well now the concept crossed over to buildings. art project? practical joke? do they really mean business? check it out >> View full entry
Finalists for the 2006 edition of the FAD Prize (catalan arch prizes for the best works done in the iberian peninsula last year) were announced four days ago. Apart of the traditional Architecture and Interior Design categories, the Exterior Spaces category has mutated into City and Landscape... View full entry
After building the City of arts and sciences, Valencia in Spain, won the bid to host next year's America's cup and enhance its regeneration strategy, but will it pay off? questions this article. and here a blogspot about the central building of the project by David Chipperfield. original &... View full entry
Frank Gehry is going to design the Guggenheim Foundation's largest museum in the United Arab Emirates, the BBC reports. It will cover 30,000 square metres, and is to be built in the capital city of Abu Dhabi. View full entry
"changes in London's public buildings and spaces are implanting models of control and infringement that may undermine the free civic life" writes Jan Willem Petersen in Open Democracy View full entry