Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer/activist and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), passed away this morning in Toronto. Read + NYTJane Jacobs, 89: Urban legend Apr. 25, 2006. 12:34 PM WARREN GERARD TORONTO STAR Jane Jacobs was a writer, intellectual, analyst... View full entry
Results are IN.General Design Category, Awards of Excellence: From Brownfield to Greenfield: A New Working Landscape for Wellesley College Wrenched from its Toxic Past, Wellesley, Massachusetts Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts/New York City... View full entry
His schematic designs for a glass-curtained tower rising 47 stories above his landmark Walt Disney Concert Hall are to be unveiled at a news conference today.LA Times View full entry
The recent immigration rally in Chicago's Federal Plaza reminds us why public space is so vital. Trib View full entry
Cassandra Fahey of Cassandra Complex - famous for imprinting Pamela Anderson's face onto a Melbourne house - gets a write-up on her archi-pop sensibility in TheAge.Newman House (2003)Docklands Tower (in progress) View full entry
35-year old OMA Partner Ole Scheeren is the Partner in charge of CCTV. Here is his unlikely story of arrival. | indy View full entry
Archinect's own Bryan Finoki tackles the spatial and socio-economic problems of shantytowns, focusing on recent tragedies in the Philippines, at Inhabitat. View full entry
The 75th anniversary of the completion of the Empire State Building will occur on May 1, 2006. NYT View full entry
Gallery of green minded homes. Somewhere somebody says "We bought a small timber mill and, with a couple of carpenter, put up the house ourselves."cnn View full entry
US Census Bureau studies show Americans spend more time than ever commuting and for a growing number, getting to work takes more than an hour. Reuters View full entry
The last modernist building constructed in Rome was built by the Fascists in the 1930s. Today in Rome, however, that long drought has been quenched by the the inauguration of the Ara Pacis museum by Richard Meier. Reuters l previous View full entry
In the email bag, from Project Locus: "We are gearing up for a summer in New Orleans and our House of Dance and Feathers design-build." If you are interested, we have info, schedule and volunteer PDF's for downloading: Volunteering | Schedule | About the proposal View full entry
...Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness is strangely old-fashioned. It is written beautifully and well researched, but underneath its aesthetically yearning, disillusioned surface, the argument firming up seems almost exactly that of HRH's A Vision of Britain, but without the balls... View full entry
I just opened Amazon and found this on my front page. A new Zumthor/Birkhauser hardcover is coming out. Reserve your copy now! View full entry
Local governments and ordinary citizens are saying 'no' to so-called Hummer houses and starter castles. Tactics include energy-consumption restrictions, petitions and outright building moratoriums. (in the US) so it seems like finally people are getting the point that it's pointless to develop... View full entry