From Korea to Bangkok to Middle Kingdom America (aka Kentucky) the "©opyrighted" diagrams of Koolhaas the Great © reappear til they're instituted in built form. OMA's "new" 61 story hybrid skyscaper for Louisville's skyline. Courier View full entry
How would you like to make $999,999 a year designing Vons grocery stores ? Ha? They are looking, and I am not kidding. apply now View full entry
Speaking of Moscow, the private house built by architect Konstantin Melnikov in 1927 is threatened by a battle over ownership. It appears that lawyers arrived to seize the house only hours after the death of Melnikov�s son last Sunday. Unfortunately for... View full entry
"Moscow is seeing a rash of cool industrial conversions that draw inspiration from projects like London's Tate Modern", writes the Guardian. "The idea is to transform the shells of dilapidated industrial buildings that are dotted across the capital into galleries, arts centres and design... View full entry
"Design Your Ride is the multi-annual Monson and Kasei Snowboard design contest, created by designers and voted on by designers." Co-sponsored by Archinect. View full entry
Intriguing London news: T he director of the Design Museum, Alice Rawsthorn left her job. The Design Museum is also planning to leave, not London but its Butler's Wharf riverside location.(via things)Ferguson (RIBA past president) steps up to support Norman Foster after the tabloid like report... View full entry
More than 3,400 linear feet of high-output, high-efficiency fluorescent tubes were on, showing off the nighttime presence that museum officials and designers hope will crank up the “wow” quotient on the city's landscape. KC View full entry
New Welsh assembly building, Senedd, designed by Lord Richard Rogers will host its first debate today. The irony is that this expensive public building has had no controversy. l BBC1 l BBC2 l Pictures l View full entry
Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron are working on a spectacular tower structure in the rebuilding of the Schatzalp Hotel above Davos in Switzerland. SkiPress View full entry
Unflappable bloggernector Geoff Manaugh posted an item for Inhabitat on Light Pollution as art and problem, especially as captured by landscape photographer David Allee. View full entry
Joy Press says, in this review of Mike Davis' 'Planet of Slums': it "bears too little of the vivid prose or narrative thrust that fueled books like City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts, and what eloquence he does muster is smothered by the avalanche of figures and charts herded onto every... View full entry
Deyan Sudjic and Charles Jencks; Norman Foster's "gherkin" in London, Frank Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim - is this the age of the iconic building? Or are they just expressions of political and architectural vanity? Two leading critics debate. Issue 111 / June 2005Prospect Magazine | related Feature View full entry
On Dec. 5, surf industrialist Grubby Clark did shut his doors, closing a 44-year-old Southern California business that manufactured the buoyant foam core of most of the world's surfboards.But inspiration has grown out of the chaos. Many in the surfing industry now see the end of Clark's... View full entry
"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, cities like New Orleans -- much of which is still without power today -- face a housing crisis that's only exacerbated by uncertainty about what types of structures can withstand the next disaster." Wired invetigates. View full entry
Cheap living in a blown-up market. Renting NYC. View full entry