Kyle, at Yale School of Architecture, shares some impressive images with us from his first project this semester 'Skins and Sculls'. Max looks back at a good summer in Chicago and gets ready to board the airplane that takes him to further grad school adventures in Japan at the Tokyo Institute of... View full entry
ArchRecord's annual survey of remarkable interiors showcases 14 projects for which materials matter and striking details are paired with impeccable execution (including the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center by Lyn Rice Architects, posted previously). View full entry
As this last great building boom winds down, New York Magazine's architecture critic asks: Does the new see-through city look better or worse than the one it replaced? A building-by-building survey. NYMag View full entry
Angela Mitropoulos and Archinect's own Bryan Finoki explore contemporary borderlands within the context of seven technologies or conditions of control and exclusion. They are; Superfluidity, Extraterritory, Thresh/hold, Recognition, Preemption, Futurecloser, Underneath. For more see, Mute Magazine View full entry
A federal agency has joined some of the nation’s biggest landlords in trying to repeal stronger safety requirements for new skyscrapers that were added to the country’s most widely used building code last year, arguing that they would be too expensive to meet. NYT View full entry
Across the United States, school districts large and small are realizing the benefits of building with LEED for Schools. Students, parents, teachers and community members are making the difference, by letting elected officials know they want their schools built green. Take Action View full entry
Some of us are overfond of complaining about the big money that drives new architecture today. The theoretical designs that once served as a critical commentary on the professional mainstream have all but dried up. Architects who once flaunted their radical credentials now work almost exclusively... View full entry
Top billing may go to Richard Meier, Renzo Piano or Jean Nouvel, but neither the starchitects, nor their firms, are likely tasked with the majority of the architectural work on most of the buildings they design. TRD View full entry
As this last great building boom winds down, our architecture critic asks: Does the new see-through city look better or worse than the one it replaced? A building-by-building survey @ NYMag View full entry
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A short story of driving around with BAM, who says, “If my architecture can put a smile in somebody’s face, I feel I have done a good job.” elseplace View full entry
Could the choice of a traditional architect to build Yale’s two new residential colleges actually betray the University’s tradition? That’s what some are arguing one day after University President Richard Levin announced that he had tapped Robert A.M. Stern to design colleges... View full entry
The uniform teaching programme of many schools will create “tasteless chickens”, says Tim Ronalds; while Richard Hayward argues that schools remain almost entirely free-range. BD View full entry
Thursday September 04 /.EventsDateModule Under A Sustainable Flag, with Ray Anderson , Sydney Australia - Foundation Hall, MCA ADC YOUNG GUNS 6: THE FINAL FIFTY , New York City Friday September 05 /.EventsDateModule Latz + Partner: Bad Places and Oases , Berlin, Germany PictoplasmaNYC , New York... View full entry
The city of Tirana and an international jury announced MVRDV winner of the competition for the urban masterplan creating a new dense urban neighborhood with a park and public facilities at the shore of Tirana Lake, in the south of the Albanian capital. Bustler + discuss View full entry