One building targeted for likely demolition is the Santa Monica Place shopping mall, completed in 1980, the other a blockish, stucco structure built 19 years ago on the University of California, Irvine campus. AP View full entry
In an appeal to the public, Cameroon recognizes the power of an absent school of Architecture. | allafrica View full entry
The author of Architecture and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard's H. Langford Warren examines the work of Warren (a one-time employee of H.H. Richardson) in the context of the Arts and Crafts philosophy manifested not only by proto modernist designers as Frank Lloyd Wright and... View full entry
In a follow-up to this recent news, Munich resident and Archinect reader Gero sends us this discovery...i was looking for a expo2000 logo poster on ebay some days ago but i found the dutch pavillon instead ... to be up for sale from the federal-state "niedersachsen" (lower saxony) ... View full entry
Jonathan Glancey argues that Prefabs are here to stay. (the guardian) View full entry
"Recently, a secret draft revision of the national park system's basic management policy document has been circulating within the Interior Department." It was written by a former Congressional aid to Dick Cheney, and "would open up nearly every park in the nation to off-road vehicles, snowmobiles... View full entry
Lingering in Germany's rust belt are dozens of shuttered factories, smokestacks rising out of latticeworks of long-silent machinery. But one of the sites, a former Thyssen steel plant that last saw production in 1985, has been given new life as a leading example of how to turn urban decay into a... View full entry
New stadiums push engineering ingenuity, to the point of having 300-pound linemen jump up and down in unison next month, hammering a 30-foot patch of turf under their cleats, to try out the Arizon Cardinals retractable turf (Eisenman's stadium). Read View full entry
Wilkinson Eyre won an international competition to design the 4th tallest tower in the world. The 432m tower to be built in the town of Guangzhou will be China's tallest building. Read more in the news section of their website View full entry
Two weeks in a row now dwellers in Mumbai have died due to building collapse, not uncommon during monsoon season. 503 buildings have recently been deemed 'dangerous' and 80 among those 'very dangerous.' Next door, "work has begun to demolish more than 100 high-rises in Dhaka, considered to be a... View full entry
The terms landscape, infrastructure & urbanism have in some linguistic combination or the other provided a late-20th century promise of civility for the harsh, complex systems that sustain cities. To some degree, the promise has been heavier than reality but Australia seems to have found a... View full entry
The team of Atelier Jean Nouvel, Christian de Portzamparc and Dilme-Fabre have been chosen to design the new theatre centre and master plan for the Théâtre de l'Archipel in Perpignan. Domus View full entry
Technology (ie Firefox) has allowed Archinect to carefully comb through an LATimes article on George Clooney's new stake in Vegas, and Brad Pitt's name is nowhere to be found. Is this the work of architecture's most famous Apprentice? (Updated; see comments) And what of this ghosted tower in the... View full entry
Remember MVRDV's pavilion in Hannover for the World Expo 2000? 5 years later, this is what it looks like. The text is in Dutch, but the images speak for themselves. View full entry
Daniel Libeskind continues to love what he does: "Look, we live in a beautiful world. There are criminals and terrorists and horrible evil people, but we live in a great democratic society. And I think that's the response actually, to these evils, to create a great society, which we are doing."... View full entry