The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation today announced that a team led by Rotterdam's West 8 urban design & landscape architecture has won the Central Waterfront Innovative Design Competition. View full entry
Carol Lloyd for the SF Gate talks with Laura Burkhalter and William Kim about the cross cultural exchange between Mongolia and the West through their revisitation of the classic yurt. Check it out. (And previously...) View full entry
The Strawjet Project , out of the Ashland School of Environment and Tech., manufactures straw into a low cost, fully recyclable, structural and insulating building material; finished wall sections that have application from affordable assembly homes to rapidly deployed shelters used for disaster... View full entry
Despite the attack on the twin towers, plenty of skyscrapers are rising. They are taller and more daring than ever, but still mostly monuments to magnificence The Economist discusses the growing trend of building up. Surprisingly, as the article points out, even though it is one of the most... View full entry
Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006, theme: “Shopping-Miles and More” over a dozen mp3 files. VernissageTV takes you to opening receptions of exhibitions and events. Here is the Zaha lot. And of course just type architecure in Google video and find stuff like this on Siza. View full entry
Dale Chihuly is in the midst of a hard-edged legal fight in federal court over the distinctiveness of his creations and, more fundamentally, who owns artistic expression in the glass art world. NY Times View full entry
An archinect participant Thomas Saint-Guillain (aka French) and Vincent Parreira participate in Pop Up City !. Check it out/translate. They are #06. View full entry
A gasoline tanker exploded at the construction site of Daniel Libeskind's Ascent condo tower in Covington, KY this morning. Several blocks have been evacuated and the historic Suspension Bridge has been shut down. The Ascent web site has a live web cam where you can see the smoke rising from the... View full entry
Paolo Soleri has designed a massive sundial bridge for the Arizona Canal, but bureacracy and "blown-up" concerns about the structures materials, which are holding up construction. So, later this week Soleri will unveil a new model. View full entry
In a sweeping downtown revitalization plan being unveiled this morning, the Hyatt Regency New Orleans Hotel and the New Orleans Shopping Center will be turned into a modern 20-acre multi-use National Jazz Center and park buttressed by public office buildings. NOLA.com View full entry
Just when it seemed that the traditional Miami aesthetic had made a national comeback ”” with Art Deco, Art Moderne and space-age-style motifs re-entering the vocabulary of so many developers ”” a new chapter has opened for this city's architecture. The Big Architects are... View full entry
KDB 's Shrinking Cities project will highlight the 10th la Biennale di Venezia, curated by Ricky Burdett. see inside for content list...Using photography, film and mixed-media presentations, Cities, architecture and society has been designed by Aldo Cibic and Luigi Marchetti - Cibic&Partners... View full entry
Robert Rubin, doctoral candidate at Columbia and proud owner of one Tropical House, has purchased Chareau's landmark Maison de Verre. | archpaper View full entry
New York is radically transforming itself before our eyes. Here's what that city will look like in just 10 years. NY Metro View full entry
Indonesia appealed to the international community for humanitarian aid after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in central Java yesterday killed several thousand people and left many more injured or homeless... Bloomberg Help From Abroad Among offers to help, Singapore has sent a 35-member medical team... View full entry