Julie Iovine reports in the NYTimes on how "a gathering rumble can be heard across the profession about the way America builds" View full entry
They might be in Italian (so here is the babelfish), but if you can't read it you could still look at the pretty pictures: 'Il ritorno dei Kraftwerk' looks at the new Kraftwerk stage show and 'Osservatorio astronomico a Montedoro' is a feature about an observatory in Sicily. View full entry
The Chicago Architecture Foundation goes Big and Green featuring 15 Green Projects, in anticipation for Sustainable Communities - Leaning from the Dutch Experience Conference starting October 1st, 2004 View full entry
Dozens of "okupas" take over the interiors and rooftop of the Antoni Gaudi building, la Pedrera. For a few hours squatters took over the building in order to publicize their struggle after been evicted from an abandoned factory in Sants, Barcelona by the local authorities. More info at La... View full entry
RioRocket went on a hard hat tour of the deYoung Museum construction site by H&dM. And took the camera along. View full entry
As the sun rose over The Seoul Capitol Building reminding us of the Dawn of Modern Korea, the Singapore Civil Defense Force brokered with private developers to ease a High-rise bomb shelter requirement that's been criticized for the past decade. By noon the sun reached the tip of the Tapei... View full entry
Italian architecture great Vittorio Gregotti lashed out at the Cordata City Life proposal for the Fiera Milano site by Libeskind, Hadid & Isozaki with: "They are a series of strange objects placed inside the city but with absolutely no effort to integrate with its surroundings or to build a... View full entry
In the face of the heightened attention that Hugh Stubbin's Citicorp Center has received since this weekend's terror alerts were issued, MemeFirst looks back at the structural retrofit that was required when the building was new, after a student writing a research paper helped alert structural... View full entry
Also from the Guardian News pages:Touch of fantasy: the right style of modern mansion and Changing the British landscape will need skill, judgment and subtlety The first article is a report on the government’s review of the planning guidelines that will protect the English... View full entry
Ministers have changed planning rules for the countryside to favour "innovative cutting-edge designs" over traditional country house styles. From the BBC Planning minister Keith Hill said he wanted the best British architects to design country houses "that our future generations will be proud... View full entry
There's a point where an architect crosses the line to the nether side of celebrity. The projects become less about exploring the unknowns inherent in a new commission and more about giving clients the sort of signature piece they're paying for. -Detroit Free Press View full entry
Can architects play any role in resisting the capitalist production of space or are we doomed to either play along or drop out? Archined reports from the frontlines of a camp trying to answer that. (via) View full entry
Wired Magazine interviews AFH founder and Archinecter Cameron Sinclair. View full entry
Noticias Arquitectura features the Pr34 house by Rojkind (one of the firms featured in the Phaidon Atlas). The house is a fire-engine red capsule that perches above the remodeled portion of the dwelling. View full entry
Patrick T. Reardon and Blair Kamin asses the hits and misses of the Chicago Inner Loop. (ChiTribune/regstn.) View full entry