The Baroque Frauenkirche dominates the city skyline again. The cranes and scaffolding which covered the Church of Our Lady have been removed. Reconstructing this building, including the relocation of stones from the rubble its an amazing achievement. BBC / the telegraph View full entry
The Chicago Architectural Club's Chicago Prize 2005 ideas competition for revisioning urban water tanks has selected winners and honorable mentions. previous Chicago Prize 2005 first place Rahman Polk - Chicago, IL second place Eric R. Hoffman - St. Louis, MO third place Francine LeClercq - New... View full entry
As Josh pointed out in the forum, a mobile phone entrepreneur in Melbourne hopes to build a high-rise in the shape of a (rather outdated) cell phone. yeah... View full entry
A Sarajevo-born researcher said he has discovered an ancient pyramid in the hills of central Bosnia.Osmanagić, who intensively researched on pyramids in Americas, Asia and Africa for the last 15 years and wrote several books on the subject, says he's quite sure he found the first pyramid in... View full entry
From the RIBA website: The winner of the 2005 Banister Fletcher Prize for the best book of the year on architecture is Cecil Balmond's, Informal (Prestel, 2002). Cecil Balmond will receive the award at a special ceremony at the Authors' Club on 26 October 2005. via View full entry
Archinect editor Ludwig Abache's sites 0lll.com and PointingIt are featured in todays NY Times piece Where to Play Superman and See Architecture, Too View full entry
Where are the Archinect readers located? It's come up many times in the discussions, and now there's a new Archinect Frappr! map set up to show you where everyone is located. Check it out, scroll around the globe, and add yourself to the group.UPDATE: 11/03/50 View full entry
The Dutch experiments with flood-proof architecture and below-sea-level urbanism. NYT View full entry
...asks Joseph Rykwert in a lecture at Cornell. Daily Sun View full entry
As noted in the discussions last week, Robert Timme, Dean of the USC School of Architecture, passed away last Thursday after a short struggle with lung cancer. Click here for the full story. View full entry
With London out of the stage for next year's British pavilion, Tom Dyckhoff who is a member of the advisory panel for the selection of the projects that will represent Britain laments the fact that the British provincial city is merely copying London and in doing so becoming "anycities" designed... View full entry
The third in our series of five Inventioneering Architecture lectures is Ines Lamuniere and Patrick Devanthery, practicing architects and educators from the EPFL Lausanne. Less than one week left to see the exhibition at the CCA! PodcastVideo Torrent View full entry
The publisher of the English language newspaper Japan Today criticizes Tadao Ando's building for Mori in Omotesando. photos> View full entry
The Singapore blueprint will be showcased at the 6th Sao Paulo International Biennial of Architecture and Design. Singapore is the first Southeast Asian country to be invited to this event. channelnewsasia>> View full entry
The 6,500 acre site where many of the cold war's deadliest weapons were manufactured will soon become a wildlife sanctuary, as the biggest environmental scrub in the US has recently been declared "officially" complete. The effort, though monumental, has not evolved without considerable... View full entry