Home of Hadid's first building in the USA, Cincinnati will give ZH the Fine Arts Fund's $15,000 Rosa F. and Samuel B. Sachs Fund Prize. The periodic award recognizes “artists who have made an important contribution to the artistic life of Cincinnati” and also brought distinction... View full entry
Max Protetch (strike that)...Henry Urbach (?) to curate at SFMoMA? | NLArchitects master terrain vague | more whirling Zaha in Barcelona | AA DRL grads Base 4 do interactivity pavilion for London 2012 | Charcoal burner's hut | Rammed Earth Guest House experiment | Welcome to Suburbia on the East... View full entry
Miguel Fisac died at 92 in Madrid and was buried yesterday there. Fisac was a brand apart from the rest of the postwar architects in Spain, blazing a new trail. He challanged both a reigning classicism and illusionistic varieties of functionalism. Instead, he opted for an empirical approach that... View full entry
The rumours have proven to be true -- Prince-Ramus will be leaving Koolhaas, and taking his entire OMA-NY staff with him while he and parter Erez Ella form Ramus Ella Architects, or REX. Read more about this from JPR, in his personal email that JohnProlly posted to this discussion. Today's Sunday... View full entry
Owen Hatherley of The Measures Taken knocks down the wickets of Alain de Bottom, the false choice of market style "Ikea Alvar Aalto" modernism, and the V&A's Modernism Exhibition. l related l context l View full entry
For those in the midst of review-insanity, rest assured that architecture totally beats out sleeping, eating and having a life. (Sex might be a different story.) View full entry
Interesting article about the 3D modeling and construction process for Libeskind's new Denver art museum: ENR. View full entry
May brings an issue of frieze devoted to art and architecture. "Deyan Sudijc considers the way in which a number of celebrated architects from Rem Koolhaas to Herzog & de Meuron have worked with repressive regimes and what this says about the relationship between architectural innovation... View full entry
“In the largest ever laboratory earthquake simulation the house will be shaken from its foundations and the ensuing mayhem will be captured by 250 sensors and dozens of cameras installed inside the house.” Check out the webcam shots. (via New Scientist) + [Prev: Bringing the... View full entry
Richard Sweeney has a fascinating flickr gallery of his paper sculpture. "...created solely with paper by means of scoring and folding." Amazing. View full entry
Rather than merely overhaul medical procedures, the hospital decided to try a different approach. St. Joseph's then-chief, John Reiling, was already leading a $55 million effort to build a new facility. His idea: cram the new building with innovative design to help staffers do their jobs more... View full entry
Lately, I have eagerly awaited the release of Tate OE's recent symposium Utopias and Avant-Gardes to grace the web waves. I guess I'll have to continue to await this arrival, however, we can all enjoy it now at this location instead l related View full entry
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. LACMA extension's design development documents exhibition by Renzo Piano and his workshop, is a telling story of their approach, methods, and skills for this well contested project and museum venue. His westward expansion of the County Museum, which will arguably... View full entry
Flickr member SilkCut posted photos from an April trip to Moscow. Catch up on all the faves of the 20s and 30s. Flickr View full entry
Sadly, there is one group of people that the delights of Dubai's plush hotels are always destined to disappoint. In the Fairmont, for instance, where do you get the chance to sleep without air-conditioning on a stone floor? 7days View full entry