Couple floating around: Ethan Zuckerman for worldchanging discusses Robert Neuwirth's “Shadow Cities,” focusing on squatter societies to justify a rights to 'land possession', not rights to 'property.' And Gregg Easterbrook admits that Jared Diamond's... View full entry
Lord Rogers and a panel selected Zaha Hadid as the winning design for the city's first new Olympic venue: the Aquatics Centre. Scotsman |TILLondon | SportingLife View full entry
And they did it. Two architects with shi-shi credentials decide to be designer-builder-developer. formatdesign writes in: god bless em - architects able to pull off a 3m + deal the first time out. actually, go through and do some numbers and they're going to be making quite a profit on that... View full entry
Clay Risen (NYT) has a few words on Philip Nobel's book. Compare with Michiko Kakutani's review. View full entry
just a few late links to get out to y'all: Pixel Points on PJ, Johnny and (seperately) the Danish Opera (prev). good stuff | Fuksas Porta Palazzo, an ec feature View full entry
Metropolis interviews William McDonough on his work on bring the cradle-to-cradle design protocol to China. View full entry
David C. gets a new friend! Effective February 1, Feiner—well-known among his AIA colleagues for his exuberant defense of design excellence, as well as his signature Western boots—will take on a new position... View full entry
Annabel Wharton for the New Statesman writes about what is missing from Elizabeth Gill Lui's photographic book, Building Diplomacy: the architecture of American embassies. Wharton criticizes Lui for trying to cast America's banal fortress structures around the world as high-art to disguise their... View full entry
Herzog & de Meuron have been selected to expand their Tate Modern London (2000). Nicholas Serota aims to raise about $254 million in the next four years to fund the expansion of galleries, educational facilities and surrounding areas on the museum's 8-acre site. Spare a few quid? Scheduled... View full entry
Harvard GSD students have had the privilege for some time of listening to Rafael Moneo wax insightful about the work of recent or contemporary masters, but now his critical observations about eight architects' work are collected in one volume. Seems like a must-have. Theoretical Anxiety and... View full entry
Alex Frangos for the Wall Street Journal breaks down a recent ‘bake-off' in Anniston, Atlanta to choose an architect for a courthouse there being renovated under the federal government's GSA ‘Design... View full entry
Famed architect and valued member to the architectural community, Philip Johnson, passed away last night at the age of 98. More from the NY Times, Google News, and a profile, biography and interview from the Academy of Achievement. (Updated: see inside) "He is architecture's greatest presence... View full entry
The 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference will be held in Tokyo in September 2005. l call for papers l competition l View full entry
Jean Nouvel has won the Wolf Prize for the Arts in 2005. The Wolf Prize rotates annually among architecture, music, painting, and sculpture. l JPost l Jerusalem Post Jan. 25, 2005 18:43 | Updated Jan. 25, 2005 18:55 2005 Wolf Prizes announced By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH An American will receive the... View full entry
RIBA fully supports the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's decision to build 10,000 extra social homes per year, and particularly commends policies seeking higher housing densities and the freeing-up of brown-field land. | RIBA View full entry