Of all the magazines in the United States, Business Week calls for an American equivalent to the British Stirling Prize: "design quality and innovation of buildings more generally isn't a topic of public debate." View full entry
Architecture Radio, swissnex and the California College of Arts are pleased to present recordings from "Inventioneering Architecture", an exhibition and lecture series showcasing Swiss architectural teaching and contemporary Swiss architecture. The first in a series of five lectures is Marc... View full entry
Edmund Bacon, planner behind Phil.'s renaissance | An Appreciation. Flaws and all, Edmund N. Bacon molded a modern Philadelphia: Edmund N. Bacon, who died Friday at 95, was a planning visionary who dragged a declining, smoke-blackened Philadelphia kicking and screaming into the modern... View full entry
Teams of college and university students compete to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house. Look at the results. View full entry
Aaron Betsky sees the sucessful completion of the de Young Museum as an oppuritunity for San Francisco to burst past its cocoon of nostalgia and fly into a brighter architectural future. SFGate View full entry
David Byrne has had a relationship (not always an easy one...) with architecture for a very long time. Now he literally plays it: "devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large... View full entry
Robert Neuwirth has added some good posts to his blog about a few architects who have found unique ways of working with squatter communities, a relationship I am very eager to see develop in the coming decades. A New Book on Caracas | Indian architect works with squatters | The Japanese Get It... View full entry
The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh - EMBT / RMJM Ltd won the Stirling prize. The judge's statement: "It is good that for once the government spent a Lot of money well rather than little inadequately". View full entry
In the space of just 10 years, the Stirling Prize has transformed the way we view new architecture. Giles Worsley reports The Daily Telegraph View full entry
Brighton's Jubilee Library wins the Prime Minister's Better Public Building award and it could be very well the dark horse to win over the favourites: Scottish Parliament and Glucksman Gallery for the Stirling Prize 2005. View full entry
This month is the New Yorker's annual art and architecture issue with articles on Dubai, an update on Rocio Romero's LVL PreFab endeavor by Paul Goldberger, and 'Unfinished Business' with Jorn Utzon in Sydney. View full entry
After anticipation led some to believe that Will Alsop would win the competition for the $40-million revamp of the Edmonton Art Gallery, today LA architect Randall Stout was announced the winner beating out Zaha Hadid and Arthur Erickson as well. Read | prev View full entry
Domus finally has copies of the Jan Kaplicky's letter in Domus 882 and Stefano Boeri's rebuttal in Domus 884 online l related l On the Pyongyang Issue from Domus 884 September 2005 The Czech architect Jan Kaplicky critizes Domus initiative of a call for ideas for the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang... View full entry
a Review roundup culled from ANN: The de Young and the new federal building are a provocative pair steering design in the right direction - J.King | Painting a New Landscape: An exhibitionist museum, tower and gardens expand the notion of museum space - Z. Sardar | Museum with two faces... View full entry
In the spirit of the Razzies and the IgNoble awards, here we now have SPA's answer to the Stirling Prize hype: the Tamworth Prize is the UK's least prestigious architectural award and is conferred annually on the designer of the building which has made the most negligible contribution to... View full entry