The most park-impoverished major city in America, Los Angeles devotes only 4 percent of its land to public greenery. By contrast, parkland comprises 17 percent of New York City and 9 percent of Boston (where 97 percent of the city’s children have immediate access to a park — as... View full entry
North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. The 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of N. Korea. Egypt's Orascom group is the contractor. yahoo news | previously View full entry
Architect's Newspaper: Can Prefab Deliver? | Inga Saffron: Changing Skyline: Setting up house | See-through Phila. house is N.Y. museum 'exhibit' | Metropolis: Industrialists Without Factories - Kieran Timberlake’s Cellophane House takes the mass and the production out of mass production. |... View full entry
Ap Dijksterhuis, a psychologist at Radboud University in the Netherlands (and expert on unconscious thought), has done some studies that look at how people shop for homes, and how they often fall victim to what he calls a "weighting mistake".Frontal Cortex More Details... Consider two housing... View full entry
Nicolai Ouroussoff reviews the new housing exhibit at MoMA. The idea of a well-oiled assembly line churning out gleaming and affordable new houses, flooded with light and as compact as a ship’s cabin, is a well-worn Modernist fable. NYT View full entry
Inspired by the murder of Steven Lawrence, and the subsequent vandalism of the Adjaye-designed building in Lawrence's name, RMJM has announced the "Architecture for Everyone" initiative. The initiative is funded with £1 million from RMJM, with the goal of introducing creative street youth... View full entry
Thursday July 17 /.EventsDateModule South Street Seaport - Re-envisioning the Urban Edge (ENYA) Exhibition Opening , New York, NY On the Map 2008 - CNCA High School , Los Angeles, CA CUP’s 2008 Summer Benefit , New York, NY Caroline Maniaque: La face cachée de l’Amérique... View full entry
The Louvre's bold new Islamic art wing had its first stone laid by Sarkozy yesterday. The world's most visited museum will have Europe's biggest purpose-built exhibition space for an Islamic art collection. Guardian View full entry
ABK Architects are this year's big winners and rake in three awards for their New Civic Offices in Cork, Ireland. Bustler View full entry
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Kajima's floor-by-floor slow demolition is one of those rare things in life that leaves you truly speechless, mouth wide-open, and pinching yourself to be sure this is real while you mutter "what the frak." After all, seeing the video of a 20-floor building submerging into the asphalt as if it... View full entry
The LA Times' Christopher Hawthorne reviews 'Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner', which opened yesterday at UCLA's Hammer Museum. View full entry
'Green' resort threatens last area of unspoilt coast Design is sympathetic to habitats, architect saysGuardian View full entry
These days ambitious students have an alternative to the typical after-school job - start a virtual business. MSNBC discusses some success stories, including that of an 18-year old virtual architect...Virtual SuccessTeens bypass after-school jobs for virtual world businesses where the money... View full entry
The demolition equivalent of slow food. Gizmodo View full entry