Gawker: Architect Charles Gwathmey's took critic Paul Goldberger's review of his first residential tower in this week's New Yorker rather well, don't you think?. | Plus, Poet to live in bird's nest. View full entry
It's not about futbol and goles; it's about modelos de urbanismo. From May 2 to 4, 12 architects and urbanists on each side will debate growth strategies (mano a mano and in teams). (source) | coac Participants include Emilio Tuñón, Luis... View full entry
...relation to Libeskind's original vision as the Time Warner Center does to the Jewish Museum in Berlin. felix (via) | future in its past | NYPost outraged at delays | miss representation View full entry
At a cocktail party last week at the Four Seasons restaurant to celebrate the museum's new chairman, William L. Mack, a real estate developer, (related) and its first female president, Jennifer Stockman, Ms. Stockman talked of "bringing art and culture to cities around the world." And Thomas... View full entry
NCARB will implement a $10-per-division fee increase, effective July 1, 2005. ncarb.org | discussion View full entry
Falling Because of Water. (yeah. NYT humor) Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis-Brown house, the templelike extravaganza he built on a plateau in the Los Feliz hills in Los Angeles, may soon be more of a ruin than the Mayan structures that inspired it. View full entry
First the wobbly bridge and now this? Falling windows under no circumstances work well with your public relations or the effort to rent 16 empty floors at 30 St. Mary's Axe. Gherkin skyscraper sheds a window from 28th storey. View full entry
John Grossi spray-painted flourescent curses and other decorative tags on his recently purchased house in order to protest NY city's designation of the home as historic. The man planned to build five town-houses after paying $720,000 for the landmark. "I bought this house to tear it down," Grossi... View full entry
News from the man himself last night: Volume, and its sushi box, are scheduled for release next week. AMO to release its own news bulletin. And there was a hint of Content #2. Oh, and he has lots of architecture projects, too. View full entry
None other than Paul Goldberger gives Gwathmey's Astor Place Tower the authoritative stamp of CRAP, calling it a "Green Monster" and "an elf prancing among men." Seems like people around here didn't need the official cue. View full entry
NASA has $400,000 in prize money riding on a competition to stimulate the innovative concept -- no matter how weird it may seem -- for sending people, spacecraft and robots directly out to Mars and the other planets of the solar system. Read in SF Gate Meekk Shelef, a computer whiz, is worried... View full entry
Underground geographer Trevor Paglen traces the hidden forces that constitute the Prison Industrial Complex in his latest survey of surveillance interventions. Recording Carceral Landscapes opens at The Lab in San Francisco this Friday (04.29), and presents a topography of multimedia... View full entry
Julius Shulman on his first break, his collection's moving day and Disney Hall. LADwntn. Previously View full entry
Paul Rudolph 's cultural oasis campus at UMass Dartmouth celebrates its 40th anniversary amidst rumors of wrecking balls. New masterplan to be unveiled April 27. | stndtimes | prev View full entry
Raimund Abraham: JingYa Ocean Entertainment Center Beijing (via eOculus) | SciArc rapid doodads turn up in cryptic Wired blog | Why is this Calatrava Moment different from all other Calatrava Moments? View full entry