mulisp catches some shots of the City of Arts and Culture in Valencia, Spain. battle helmet. check. spinal chord. check. oculus. check. ladies. check. flickr View full entry
Some firms looking to be a part of the Chinese building boom have hit a great wall called the "Circular 200 rules from China's Ministry of Construction. The measure is designed to protect Chinese firms from foreign competition, but some say it goes too far." ENR. View full entry
Carlos Jimenez, Pritzker juror, talks a bit about who deserves the big prize, why Glenn Murcutt did and why maybe Nouvel doesn't. It's in Spanish. View full entry
Word is out of a new release of Guy Debord DVDs (along with a fifth volume of his letters) ...as well as a new website: www.guydebordcineaste.com "He created his first film, Hurlements en faveur de Sade (Howls for Sade), "a film without images, whose projection was accompanied by an indescribable... View full entry
Greenpeace activists seal the entrance to Madrid's Queen Sofia Museum and declare it a forest crime scene.Spanish Government caught fuelling Amazon destruction Greenpeace reveals forest crime at Madrid Museum 20 October 2005 Madrid, International — At 10.00am this morning... View full entry
Part 2/5 in the Inventioneering Architecture series is Andrea Deplazes. Andrea's research addresses a broad spectrum of architectural design activities, including public and institutional projects, urban design, housing, and industrial buildings, with special focus on wood construction. His... View full entry
Winners were announced last night for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. Diller Scofidio + Renfro in Architectural Design. Ned Kahn in Landscape Design. Richard Gluckman for Interiors. Amongst others. View full entry
At 170m (558ft) - it is the UK's tallest public building outside London. Due to open for the Millennium, the project is five years late and has cost £36m. During the opening ceremony the lift jammed 100ft up trapping the city council's project manager. BBC View full entry
Today the foundation stone went into ground. The building designed by Sauerbruch Hutton, will add to the sequence of galleries and museums of munich's "museum area".Museum Brandshorst web / Baunetz (in german) View full entry
The new headquarter building of the dutch publisher PCM in Amsterdam will get an OMA design, according to anarticle in the newspaper volkskrant.Big image of the foamcore model. View full entry
Slate reviews Deyan Sudjic's new book The Edifice Complex.The Edifice Complex is, as Norman Foster notes in a jacket blurb, a gossipy book, which takes potshots at globetrotting architects””"the flying circus of the perpetually jet-lagged"””even as it documents the... View full entry
Columnist Steve Lopez is spending the week on skid row. Today he talks to 10 wheelchair-bound denizens. Just another side of this glam city, from the LA Times View full entry
"It now appears that, in giving birth to the Gherkin, London has fathered, or rather foster-fathered, a whole brood of pickled cucumbers that is set to colonise the world." - Read View full entry
Siena Stadium | Casa Grande | I.V. Plant Pot | Pret-a-porter houses | Not A Cornfield | Fernando Guerra, photographer | Another Tallest in China | Blob art pavilion | WalMart for Ground Zero? | "Adolf Loos Probably Humping his Coffin" | When Reptiles Attack - Each Other View full entry
Japan Art Society awards the Praemium Imperiale every year, selecting honorees from around the globe. Among this year's winners is Yoshio Taniguchi | 2005 Laureates |2004 | via NA View full entry