Friday, 7 April: an all-day symposium at Penn "investigating the constraints and opportunities for young architects and artists in Mexico City." PennDesign. View full entry
"The government's city academies programme, which has seen award-winning schools designed by architects including Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, will be scaled back to produce schools that are 'just like any other'." London regresses: BD. View full entry
Glass: it's transparent, and these architects have done something with it. A new feature - featuring Weiss/Manfredi, Rafael Viñoly, SOM, etc. - at Architect's Newspaper. View full entry
Get your driving in now: "Beijing plans to make full use of its authoritarian powers during the Olympics in 2008 by banning more than 2m cars to ensure that one of the world's most polluted cities will have clear skies for at least the two weeks of the games." Guardian. View full entry
Istanbul Municipality awarded a large public recreational development project to Zaha Hadid. Tourism minded project will contain office towers,housing,opera house,parks,hotels,restaurants and a large marina.Regardless of its size and importance,Istanbul has been fairly isolated from international... View full entry
Koolhaas's scheme for the Serpentine Pavilion posits a giant inflated ovoid bubble. Who needs mountains when you can have fresh air? | kultureflash | wm$na | thanks sbox View full entry
The local plumbing union acts against sustainable fixtures over fears of less required labor and "dangerous gasses." Philly Inquirer View full entry
The Tower Bridge project adds a new 'gem' building that will stand next to the 'shard'. Apart from office space it will create a new bus terminal and access gates to the train and tube stations. View full entry
"just four weeks after a beam collapsed because of a missing bolt" The UK Civic Trust awarded the building with the 2006 prize. Read article | Other prize winners View full entry
In case you haven't browsed the front page, we posted a new Feature yesterday - an interview by Orhan Ayyuce with LA visionary Glen Small, one of the founders of SCI-Arc. He talks about his radical precursors to today's green architecture, giving some insight into early SCI Arc along the way... View full entry
Prominent Los Angeles architect Albert C. Martin Jr. of AC Martin Partners Inc. passed away last week of a stroke. Martin joined his father's firm in 1936 after graduating cum laude from the USC School of Architecture. He and his brother J. Edward Martin, a structural engineer, took over... View full entry
Just discovered that the Royal Institute of British Architects is publishing transcripts of some of its lectures. Moneo and Betsky are both there. Great initiative by the RIBA. Link > View full entry
Alsop speaks of the SMC merger and his booming Toronto based satellite which is currently at work on (you guessed it) a condo. | thestar | prev View full entry
China's top landscape architect, Yu Kongjian, is on a quest to bring unexpected beauty to the nation's boomtowns. - TIME View full entry
Jorge Pardo, a Los Angeles-based artist, designed a house in Naguabo, Puerto Rico. Read the story and see the pictures via NY Times, and while at it check out these beautiful + sexy 'design mavericks'. View full entry