It's been reported already - by Pruned, for instance - but this week the Observer takes us to the indoor ski palace to beat all indoor ski palaces - in the middle of the desert: "this meteorological oddity is Ski Dubai, the third largest indoor slope in the world, where visitors will soon be able... View full entry
With 134 homes, 87 mobile homes and 52 apartments, Starke is a curious town of 56 hundred in one of Florida's most dangerous prison belts, "a community within a community" where correctional employees keep quiet about their instant city on suspiciously unmapped prison real estate. Video __ By... View full entry
Frame tells us what's been going on with this nomadic lab, now parked in LA. Frame. Graft. View full entry
A home design innovation that is, ahem, already on a roll in Europe will be available in this country in January. Executives at Renova, a Portuguese paper producer, introduced black toilet paper a few months ago in cutting-edge boutique hotels in Madrid; it has just appeared on shelves at... View full entry
This week, Clark, Texas, morphed into DISH in exchange for a decade of free satellite television from the DISH Network for the town's 55 homes. Read View full entry
Forbes Magazine chooses ten of the usual suspects for their lineup of architectural 'tastemakers'. Who'd be on the archinect list of ten? | link | via View full entry
MADianito sends some approach shots of the soon-to-open Mercedes Benz museum, Stuttgart, by UNStudio. Visit Gallery View full entry
a $100 laptop computer for distribution to millions of schoolchildren in developing countries has caught the interest of governments and the attention of computer-industry heavyweights. now w/ prototype (WSJ) But...Apple's Jobs offered Mac OS X free to $100 laptop developers, declined because... View full entry
blogosphere wanderlust has been taking a little breather lately, but feel free to browse some clippings (oct). And if you use del.icio.us, send me some links using the for:javierarbona tag ! View full entry
Carol Lloyd writes on San Francisco's scarcity for property, and the inner city real estate market that is having a profound impact on a long overdue environmental cleanup: the redevlopment and remediation of post-industrial toxic sites. View full entry
(AP) BETHLEHEM, Pa. A full decade after the shuttering of Bethlehem Steel's flagship plant, officials are rolling out their latest proposal to transform and resurrect the nation's largest abandoned industrial site: an arts complex called “SteelStax.” | Read | imgs View full entry
Steven Steven Holl dedicates this one to his former professor, Hermann Pundt who's only book is now out of print View full entry
Prince Charles wins the National Building Museum's Vincent Scully Prize for his continuing mission to supplant architecture with banality. Record View full entry
Russia looks to the past to invent a new architectural future. l Russia Profile l related l View full entry
Aqeel Bilgrami, president of Pakistan's Institute of Architects, emphasizes pre-fab is a "ridiculous notion" for long term rebuilding, and asserts four typologies of housing reconstruction in a 'do-it-yourself shelter guide' that is being handed out to victims. He believes that getting people... View full entry