The Million Dollar Homepage, a "piece of internet history," hits the mark. Previously View full entry
The Globe and Mail's Lisa Rochon celebrates three notable Canadian projects from 2005. Read National Ballet School, by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architect Canadian War Museum, by Moriyama & Teshima with Griffiths Rankin Cook Grande Bibliothèque du Québec, by... View full entry
let's just say it has been a busy year. _2005 Review _2006 Preview _Hurricane Katrina Reconstruction Projects _Tsunami Reconstruction: One Year Later FYI: three weeks left to participate in the housing manual for Pakistan initiative. Plus make a change in 2006 and take an AFH Design Fellowship... View full entry
David Byrne muses on Corbu. View full entry
This is a newspaper article that my boss brought back from her hometown in Texas that describes what is quite possibly the most inept construction project in history. Take a quick read, it's quite entertaining and unbelievable. I'm glad this isn't one of my projects. Link View full entry
Beating out finalists CHIEN Architects & Associates (Taiwan), ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS ( U.K ), Claus en Kaan Architecten ( Netherland ), and Shuhei Endo (Japan). More 1st, Toyo Ito & Associates 2nd, Zaha Hadid Architects 3rd, Claus en Kaan Architecten Honorable Mention, CHIEN Architects... View full entry
You can now have a mayor public building in New York named after you, if you care to give a little donation for a good cause. The good cause in this case being the construction of an "important non-for-profit cultural institution". Read Only Billionaires need to apply. For the average archinect... View full entry
Rural Studio, Sam Mockbee, and a guy called Music Man: it's Modernism in high gear - in Alabama, "a place where trailers teetering on cinderblocks and disintegrating barns were two of the most common building types." New York Times. View full entry
Construction shots of the second (and last?) project by Ãlvaro Siza in Barcelona: a 40.000 sqm sports complex, including a sports pavilion and a covered pool. Works started in Jan. 2003 and will finish next month. Siza himself will inaugurate it in Jan. 4, 2006. View in the Gallery |... View full entry
"On the table sits a two-foot-tall scale model of architect Frank Gehry's plan for the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, where the Nets will move from New Jersey in 2008, with little trees and shrubs planted around the wooden buildings and acrylic skyscrapers shaped in the forms that Gehry will create... View full entry
It makes an architectural plastic so revolutionary that at first, firms weren't sure what to do with it -- but they're catching on fast... (i.e. Diller Scofidio + Renfro's renovation of Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center). Read View full entry
Did the Beeb bottle it? What went wrong with BBC's patronage of architecture? View full entry
James Ingo Freed, a partner at Pei Cobb Freed, architect of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, died December 15 at his home in Manhattan after a decades-long battle with Parkinson's Disease. | archrec View full entry
"Music lovers, critics and writers worry too much about acoustics. Truly bad acoustics - whether you hear too little or too much - cannot be ignored, but the imperfect world that lingers between the two extremes just has to be dealt with." NYT. View full entry
'The perfect architectural show for Christmas'Jonathan Glancey. until January 14 in the RIBA Gallery. This travelling show consists of very large photographic prints, richly detailed sectioned models and even Botta's own sketches on blackboards around the gallery space. Photos. View full entry