Could buildings one day be made of carbon? Tom Dyckhoff for The Times writes about new materials for the building industry. Related: from the calendar. Fugitive Materials: The Art and Science of Impermanence. Tate Modern Nov.29th. View full entry
"Modern methods of construction can be used to build up to four times as many homes as traditional methods using the same amount of labour, says a report from the [UK] National Audit Office." But such "modern methods" are still more expensive: Building Design. View full entry
"The newly appointed chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority pledged this week to help smaller firms of architects compete for work on the London Olympics amid continuing concern about European procurement guidelines." Building Design. View full entry
The designer's developers (icon), set up in 1993 by Tom Bloxham and Jonathan Falkingham, Urban Splash 'unashamedly profit-based' have a bold vision about the regeneration of former industrial areas in UK cities 'but politics gets in the way' via The Observer. Also from the observer more on Zaha's... View full entry
After information technology, banking, legal and medical outsourcing, architecture outsourcing is definitely going to make waves in Indian Business Process Outsourcing industry. webindia-news View full entry
And then reveals the revisions for the Atlantic Yards -- minus his trademark bling. And landscape architect Laurie Olin proposed a 2-acre wildflower meadow on the rooftop -- for the birds -- but public access will still be restricted in what was once allocated space for a promised-park. Brooklyn... View full entry
The Bucky Fuller 'Tute has a new web presence, chock full of news and now also delivered via RSS. www.bfi.org View full entry
Zaha Hadid's Phæno "landscape for experimentation" opens tomorrow or the day after tomorrow if you are in America.www.phaeno.de View full entry
Canadian Architect offers free tickets to the International Architectural Roundtable at 2005 Construct Canada. Link and: Link View full entry
This is long overdue. Coming at you from perhaps the coolest site ever: Socialist era architecture in Slovakia : Instant balcony : Architecture for bicycles : Manifesto for an orchestrated urbanism : The MuscleBody View full entry
Welcome to the building boom, Long Island City, where "the number of projects under construction or slated to begin cannot be counted on one hand, or even two or three." As the NYT writes: "This year, new structures are rising on the horizon... the start of a long-predicted residential building... View full entry
Kerry Hill has won the design competition for the Western Australia Performing Arts Centre in Perth.Link The other shortlisted entries include John Wardle, JPW with Utzon, PTW with Jones Coulter Young and Kohn Pedersen Fox with Crawford Rattigan Architects and Cameron Chisholm Nicol. View full entry
Although this article is for graphic designers, some of these issues are fully applicable to our profession as well. Upstart the right way! via: www.graphicdefine.org View full entry
Israeli architects attempt to allocate within the synagogue an egalitarian space for women, traditionally relegated to the margins, while addressing the requirements of Orthodox Jewish law (halakha), the spatial separation of the sexes. Haaretz View full entry
ULI releases rebuilding N.O. report | Rebuilding should begin on high ground, group says | Panel Advises New Orleans to Relinquish Purse Strings | Seeing Life Outside New Orleans Alters Life Inside It | It's Worse Than You Think | Will New Orleans rise again? (By David Dixon of Goody Clancy and... View full entry