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
The AP reports on the CNUs' upcoming presentation in Providence, RI. The question that should be asked is whether a movement needs a defining moment? View full entry
CNN picks up on Thor Equities grandiose development plans. View full entry
But, built from the finest granite and embossed with intricate brass fittings they do not come cheap with prices starting in six figure sums.bbc View full entry
Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino company owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, working with architect Moshe Safdie, beat three competitors to build Singapore's first casino-resort with a bid valued at more than $5 billion ($3.2 billion). bloomberg Images of the proposal can be seen here... View full entry
"Located next to the River Spree, a few metres west of the no-man's-land where the Berlin Wall once stood," the city's new rail station handles 1,100 trains a day. The BBC's got some nice pics. Go see it. View full entry
Toyo Ito redefines the interior of Mies' Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin for the coming exhibition Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo. We make money not art - via dezainUPDATE - construction photos have been uploaded to the gallery View full entry
SoundaXis looks at the overlap of architecture, music, and acoustics and runs June 1-11 in Toronto. Featured speakers are R. Murray Schafer, Juhani Pallasmaa, Bernhard Leitner, and Robert Essert. And a free exhibit of Xenakis drawings(!). View full entry
Mike Davis talks to BLDGBLOG about slum warfare, Ridley Scott, car bombs, post-urban corridors, and the mega-slum imaginary: Part One of a two-part interview. View full entry
Last year Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist and architect Carlos Martinez won a competition to redesign the public spaces of the "Bleicheli", the financial district of St. Gallen (regional capital of northeast Switzerland). The proposal "Stadtlounge" or "city lounge" is now built. Check the photos here... View full entry
A zero energy home in Oklahoma, according to futurist Roland Piquepaille, was built for under 200K. read in zdnet | more View full entry
The new landmark civic building designed by Cesar Pelli opened this weekend. MPL website / flickr View full entry
The name suits ”” too well. Clients wanted prefab, and instead got a creative architect's iteration of prefab. Twice over budget, construction a nightmare and it's still not finished. NYT View full entry
'Nile Street contains 175 homes, of which 128 count as "affordable". Unlike many other schemes where developers have been obliged to include social housing - there is no aesthetic difference between the different types of tenure. It's all one kind of architecture. There is no class divide.'... View full entry
A homeless shelter in East Sussex is turning to the Japanese pod hotel as a model for a new type of homeless accomodation, a space-efficient alternative "which incorporate a single bed, personal heating controls, easy-clean interior, storage space, alarm system and space for a dog." Observer. View full entry