Years ago I came across a study looking at termite mounds as a structural system for future human habitats. I was totally intrigued. Well, some crazy progress seems to have been made in this department. In times of manic urbanization and climate change, Eugene Tsui is proposing a two-mile high... View full entry
Forget the rocket attacks, concrete blast walls and lack of a sewer system. Now try to imagine luxury hotels, condos, and a shopping center called, 'International Village at US Embassy' in the heart of Baghdad. yahoo/AP View full entry
A Roundup from Archinects various region(s).News LSDlink Renzo Presents a "New Brutalism" for the Whitneylink Stephen Holl on Holllink China the New Dubai? World's longest sea-bridge opens.link Revisting Tastelink A New Architectural Facism?linkDiscussions Certification and petitions get... View full entry
James Howard Kunstler warns suburbia that it will run out of energy very soon. Colbert Report View full entry
NYT :"In his first news conference as Rome’s newly elected mayor, Gianni Alemanno announced on Wednesday that he would tear down a museum designed by Richard Meier." In Italy we have so many problems that spending money to dismantle Meier's museum is really pointless. Here a collection of... View full entry
China- It is the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world. guardian | web site View full entry
Forbes estimated Ambani's net worth at $43 billion in March. Reliance Industries was founded by Mukesh's father, Dhirubhai Ambani, in 1966, and is India's most valuable firm by market capitalization. The couple, who have three children, currently live in a 22-story Mumbai tower that the family... View full entry
The $3.8 billion structure, the latest in China’s Olympic works, can handle more than 50 million fliers a year. NYT | Slideshow | Video View full entry
The Architectural League has posted a podcast from its February 21, 2008 lecture with Steven Holl, in which Holl discusses his design of the Linked Hybrid project in Beijing and his upcoming book, Urbanisms: Working with Doubt. View full entry
An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous/pervasive computing and urban architecture... Bustler View full entry
A tycoon recently commissioned 100 international architecture firms to design individual houses in the resource-rich desert region of Inner Mongolia. NYT View full entry
Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102. NYT View full entry
Scientist have begun to understand that urban transportation and infrastructure networks grow like biological systems.NewScientistTech Key aspects of the finding include; They found that cities' road patterns have a lot in common mathematically, as well as looking similar to the eye. 'Not just... View full entry
Monica Ponce de Leon, partner of Office dA, has been appointed Dean at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Design. Read the press release here. Thanks to Christian for the tip. View full entry
ADC Young Guns exists to identify today's vanguard of young professionals across all creative disciplines. Those of you who've set your minds to making a name for yourself, raising new standards from within cubicles, conference rooms, cramped apartments, and studios across the world—this is... View full entry
