"It's hard to imagine a more stormy marriage than that between politics and architecture. " That says it all, but the Scottish Parliament is almost finished. The BBC takes a look... View full entry
A 70-foot section of the wall crumbled one day in February, startling San Juan residents who thought it would last an eternity. - NYTimes View full entry
Site as soap opera, lockouts and lawsuits in the LA Downtown News. View full entry
Elevated Visions by Julie Iovine in the NYTimes premieres some of the features of the soon-to-be-public High Line proposals. The article mentions the previous iteration of the competition where 720 entries from 36 countries fleshed-out "ideas," but does not raise issue with how it was used as a... View full entry
"Philosopher of Everyday Life" Alain de Botton op-ed in the NYTimes on the state of architecture... Says: "The skeptics are certainly right in one regard: the last decade has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of buildings whose design seems motivated not primarily by any functional goal but by... View full entry
Built in 1948, the House and Studio of architect Luis Barragán in the suburb of Mexico City represents an outstanding example of the architect's creative work in the post-Second World War period. The concrete building, totalling 1161-m2, consists of a ground floor and two upper... View full entry
A profile of Donald E. Olsen, one of a small handful of local architects who is considered an “international style” modernist in the tradition of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. (from SFGate) View full entry
Flatpak house, by Charlie Lazor, uses standardized, already-manufactured parts to minimize labor and therefore time and costs. (frm Star Tribune) View full entry
La Biennale Architettura PhotoGallery has a few images of projects for the up coming event. View full entry
a sculpture by Anish Kapoor at Chicago's Millenium Park via John Hill. (more on Archinect) View full entry
New York Times article on "Street Art Movements" including coverage of the Wooster Collective and an interactive feature on a female street artist named Swoon. View full entry
the friday reads:The Guggenheim of the Persian Gulf Overview: The Johnnys-come-lately of social housing and Prefab solutionsJoris Laarman at reluctWhat MassMoCA Has Wrought 14 Lower Manhattan ParksThe Costs of Tribute in LightPratt Institute Industrial Design Exhibit ReviewTent of Tomorrow looks... View full entry
once again, sharing the lust: our friends have been going link-crazy at noticias & dezain and I'm gonna spaz...Nouvel in Madrid Strawbale house de young AA projectsreview S+ark mouse lex 11 plus, if anyone knows anything about this, let us know. View full entry
A Kansas City, Kan., modular house designed and built by 20 University of Kansas graduate architecture students has won an international Wood Design Award. The project by students in Professor Dan Rockhill's Studio 804 class was among 12 recognized, out of 189 entries from the United States and... View full entry
Willing to work for free? Willing to accept free work? Uh..hem.....hold on a second, Howard Wolff has spoken. View full entry