and, other stories from business week architecture section. better than many magazines, if those the light readings you like, and slide shows you want to see. w/ provocative titles like the koolhaas kids come of age. View full entry
"Landscaper Kevin Larson announced Monday that, while he has enjoyed working as part of ensemble crews on smaller, low-budget projects, he is looking for a breakout lawn that will place him in the top tier of Columbia's lawn-care industry." Aye! This Onion stings too great, and cuts too deep! View full entry
"Okawara is not your typical architect: He's homeless. But the elegant austerity of his home and thousands of others like it has turned Japan's most destitute into unwitting purveyors of an emerging art form that's catching the eye of international connoisseurs. The homes - carefully built... View full entry
Calatrava waves his magic marker and secures planning approval for the Fordham Spire. "With this approval, we're on our way to adding another architectural treasure to this great city," says the developer. Crain's Chicago Business View full entry
GSD student Danny Forster was selected as the new (?) host of The Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering, for his uncanny ability to "explain architecture to the average viewer." chronicle The Architect Sketch By ANNE K. WALTERS He could have been writing his master's thesis, but instead Danny... View full entry
"The Design Museum in London announced this morning the appointment of Deyan Sudjic as director. Sudjic, a respected journalist and critic, replaces Alice Rawsthorn, whose directorship ended on January 27... Sudjic is currently the architecture critic of London's Observer magazine, and the dean... View full entry
"we've been Googled. That's right, Google Inc. has acquired @Last Software..." (maker of SketchUp) Read | digg | Related: Google also purchased Writely, the word-processing software entirely online (go figure what that implies for SketchUp) || In related news, Google News Credibility Foiled By... View full entry
All the generalizations and cliches (and truths) come out in this piece of "news" on The Bachelor's search for an Architect. | nydaily View full entry
Regine talks to Oliver Hess from Materials & Applications, "a non-profit research center dedicated to pushing new and underused ideas for landscape and architecture into view." You may know them from this. WM$NA | M&A View full entry
As reported in the Architect's Newspaper, Simon Ungers, 48, died in Germany. He is perhaps best known for the design of elegant austere homes including the Knee Residence in Caldwell, New Jersey (with UKZ Design), the "T-House" in upstate New York with Thomas Kinslow, and his more recent Cube... View full entry
This is long overdue. But, alas, the visible spectrum of urbanisms at the border never ceases to amaze me. MILITARY URBANISMSave Iraq One Switch at a Time : High Tech Versus Low : The Builders : Navy wants to build a 661-square-mile sonar practice range off the North Carolina coast : Can you say... View full entry
Rumor has it OBRA Architects of NYC have been selected to Warm it Up this year at PS1. | Update: Confirmed. View full entry
With a Labyrinth - a passive cooling system inspired by termite mounds designed by atelier ten- a frameless glass facade that allows very high light transmission by Dewhurst Macfarlane and fan shaped motorised blinds to avoid overheating. Wilkinson Eyre's reinterprets the glasshouse typology for... View full entry
Browsing through the events calendar, found a few treasures coming up. enjoy. | projective landscape in Delft | archXchange in Berlin | Here Monsters in Los Angeles | New Practices in New York View full entry
Sarah Herda, director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture and just 32 years old in a field where leading practitioners often don't hit their stride until they reach 60, will become director of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. TRIB View full entry