ArchiNED has contrasting views on the Projective Landscape conference! First of all, did anyone define what "projective" meant? Is it the new catch-phrase for "post-critical"? Is it the antithesis or antidote to "ideological"? What is a projective practice? Those that deal with the reality of... View full entry
Today, the federal government of Canada announced funding for seven new Canada-wide research networks, including the newly formed Canadian Design Research Network. Their mission is, "To enhance Canada's long-term economic growth and improve our quality of life, top design researchers are working... View full entry
Former MoMA curator and architect Terence Riley gets a farewell interview in the New York Magazine l related View full entry
Is housing in the United States the worst in the world? Why do people spend better than half of their earnings on shit architecture and poor construction? Well, the Aussies have the same problems. Age View full entry
Interesting article in the International Herld Tribune about the construction workers in Dubai....As he boards a bus to his construction site every morning but Friday, Kumaran said, he looks up at Dubai's skyline of gleaming high-rises with sadness. "I wish the rich people would realize who is... View full entry
Up, up in the sky or under the sea. View full entry
Web site of 40 Bond, Ian Schrager's new luxury apartments designed by Herzog & de Meuron, shows a movie. Ian sez; "now, more than ever, I feel the status quo is unacceptable." Yours truly is still pondering what he meant... Anyway, watch the movie and see the status quo busting condos, da... View full entry
Building legislation in the UK is finally coming into step with what the scientists have been telling us since the 1970s: that global climate change is unavoidable and fossil fuel supplies are in demise. Building Design Online View full entry
500,000 pack streets to protest immigration bills. The rally, part of a massive mobilization of immigrants and their supporters, may be the largest L.A. has seen. LATIMES | see images in flickr View full entry
Walt Lockley, an architectural psychologist tries to incriminate 10 International Starchitects:" It's hard to think of architects as criminals. They seem so harmless...Architects are sexy, at least potentially sexy, when young and skinny and opinionated and staring down fellow students...They're... View full entry
"The door to the stainless-steel box slides open, and one of New York City's more closely guarded secrets is revealed ”” a self-cleaning pay toilet that will soon be coming to city streets." nytimes | which kind-of makes this scheme obsolete ... View full entry
Even the designer of the cubicle thinks they were maybe a bad idea, as millions of 'Dilberts' would agree. Cubic mistake, and a Remedy. View full entry
New York is set to build the tallest, shiniest, terrorist-tauntiest skyscraper in the world. Watch: Daily Show (at 3:00) | and also: Foibles of the Reconstruction: Bin Laden will never destroy the web of beauracracy keeping the towers from being rebuilt. View full entry
"Foster and Partners has been selected to design a new high-rise headquarters in downtown Calgary for EnCana, Canada's leading energy company. Foster's experience creating signature buildings and his familiarity with energy efficient offices helped him win the job, say EnCana officials. Design... View full entry
"Three years after the invasion of Iraq, some $8 billion has been spent on reconstruction and contractors have started 2,773 projects through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Project and Contracting Office in Baghdad, out of 3,047 planned. Although 2,144 are complete, most goals that were put up... View full entry